The BJP has retained power in Uttar Pradesh winning a thumping majority. India TV brings you an indepth analysis of how the party performed in all the seven phases of Uttar Pradesh assembly election 2022.
“In the great festival of democracy, the decision of the people is paramount. The farmers' movement showed its effect. We hope that all the governments that have been formed will work for to uplift farmers and labourers in their respective states. Congratulations to all on the victory,” Tikait tweeted in Hindi.
The BJP's mega win in Uttar Pradesh gives its presidential candidate an edge. Had the UP results gone in favour of the Samajwadi Party, the BJP would have had to rely on the support of parties like BJD, TRS, YSR Congress Party.
The BSP and the Congress managed one and two seats respectively. The vote share of the Asaddudin Owaisi-led party was just around 0.43 per cent of the total votes polled.
"UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead, we should learn from it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power," Mayawati said.
Among the ministers who lost is outgoing deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who lost to the Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel by 7,337 votes in the Sirathu seat.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday extended his gratitude to the people of Uttar Pradesh and said that his party showed that seats of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) can be decreased. He mentioned that SP's vote share increased by one-and-a-half fold. The SP had in 2017 polls pocketed 21.85 per cent vote share. It increased to 32.06 per cent in the just held election.
UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead we should learn form it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said.
The Samajwadi Party, however, managed to perform way better than 2017, and gained 111 seats this time, more than double what it did five years back. Its vote share increased by more than 10% this time.
The BJP's win in Uttar Pradesh is a record as no party has won consecutive elections in the country's most populous state in nearly four decades.
Despite giving a tough fight to BJP and improving its seat share in the Vidhan Sabha elections this year, SP failed to cross the halfway mark of 202 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
The Apna Dal contested 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh, and as per the latest data issued by the Election Commission, it won 12 of them.
Most of the current and former ministers of the Punjab government lost the poll battle to the AAP candidates.
The BJP-led alliance was leading in over 274 seats as against 119 of its nearest rival Samajwadi Party-led alliance in the initial rounds of counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh. Watch indepth analysis of election results in Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.
Lauding BJP workers for ensuring an early Holi by making BJP victorious in four states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the election results highlight people's stamp of strong approval for the party's pro-poor and pro-active governance model.
In these elections, the domineering image of Samajwadi Party workers also took down Akhilesh. With the sound of government formation, controversial statements of SP leaders and workers started coming out from many areas of the state, many of whom were allegedly in the form of threats.
But the Bahujan Samaj Party leader has been out of power in UP for a decade, and a better showing in the just-ended assembly elections would have come in handy. Instead, the BSP was leading on just a single seat on Thursday evening.
According to sources,one of the main reasons for the under performance of the alliance in an area that was the focal point of the famers' agitation against the ruling BJP, was faulty candidate selection and swapping of candidates.
Pankaj Singh won the Noida seat with a whopping margin of 1.81 lakh votes, while Tejpal Nagar recorded a victory with 1.38 lakh votes, the Election Commission website showed.
The latest trend shows that the BJP is going to sweep assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. As per the trends, the BJP is leading in over 270 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh while Samajwadi Party is leading in 122 seats.
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