UP election results 2017 updates: BJP sets up a big win, SP-Congress takes a bashing, show leads.
Uttar Pradesh elections results 2017 is all set to declare BJP's landslide victory and PM Modi's super wave has ensured a majority government in the 403-seat state. BJP won 312 of the state's 403 seats; its allies have won 13 seats for a grand total of 325. The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance has taken a bashing at the hands of the challenger. Mayawati's BSP, which was being considered the dark horse in the elections, has failed to surprise and is at a distant third position. The BJP in the crucial assembly elections, billed as a semi-final before the 2019 national elections, has surprised the pollsters and has delivered one of its best performance in UP in decades.
Today's results will also be seen as a referendum for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's notes ban last year. PM Modi was the face of the BJP's campaign with the party choosing not to project a chief ministerial candidate and seeking votes for PM Modi's policies and development agenda.
Ruling Samajwadi Party's gamble, under Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, to partner with the Congress, spearheaded by its vice president Rahul Gandhi fell flat today. Both parties had to face a drubbing at the hands of PM Modi-led BJP.
Here are the live updates of the UP assembly election results 2017:
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Larger than life cutouts of PM Modi and Amit Shah outside the BJP headquarters in Delhi
Results of 263 of UP's 403 seats are out. As trends suggested, the BJP holds the cards - along with leads - of a landslide victory. Here are the latest stats:
Uttar Pradesh (UP) Election Results 2017 |
UP (403) | Leads+Results (403) | Results (263) |
BJP+ | 324 | 208 |
SP+ | 57 | 40 |
BSP | 19 | 13 |
Others | 3 | 0 |
UP Election Results 2017: Akhilesh Yadav Fuels Mayawati's Poll Rigging Allegations, Says Should Be Investigated
"If a legitimate party has raised a concern, it should be investigated. I would also like to see how our candidates, leading earlier, were defeated later," Mr Yadav said.
We Built Expressways, Maybe The People Voted For A Bullet Train, Says Akhilesh Yadav After UP Elections Drubbing
What began like a defeat accepted with utmost humility, outgoing Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's speech quickly turned sour, laced with sarcasm. "Maybe the people didn't like the expressway we built, maybe they voted in hope of a bullet train in UP," Mr Yadav said at the customary post-election press conference.
"The next government will do better than us," he said, subtly adding, "maybe if the PM has said, debts of farmers all over the country will be forgiven".
If Notes Ban Was An Election Issue, People Stood By PM Modi Like A Wall, Says Amit Shah
An emboldened BJP President Amit Shah was calm and candid and sat with a resolve to answer all questions from reporters at the party headquarters but one: the arithmetic of BJP's votes gain. Shrugging off the question, Mr Shah asked a couple of reporters to not get into details of a Hindu-Muslim vote divide and the combination of vote banks. "The country's poor have connected with PM Modi and that's why BJP won," adding, "people of all castes and communities have picked the BJP".
UP Is Victory Of PM Modi's Vision, Says Amit Shah
BJP President Amit Shah credits Uttar Pradesh's landslide victory to PM Modi's development programmes and the hard work of millions of party workers. He said the country's development goes through UP's growth.
Mr Shah gave a special mention to BJP's performance in Amethi and Rae Bareli, traditional strongholds of the Congress, where the party is set to win 6 of the 10 assembly seats.
On Mayawati's accusation of poll rigging by the BJP, Mr Shah said, "I can understand her state of mind," adding that he would not like to comment further.
Mr Shah said the BJP will tomorrow pick chief ministers of four states - Goa and Manipur apart from UP and Uttarakhand - when it welcomes PM Modi at the party headquarters and sit down for a parliamentary board meeting. (Congress is leading in Goa and Manipur at the moment.)
BJP Chief Amit Shah Arrives At BJP Headquarters In DelhiPrime Minister Narendra Modi's star power and development agenda is largely being credited for the landslide Uttar Pradesh assembly election victory. But the party says Amit Shah, its president by designation and its chief election strategist during polls, is equally to thank.
A victory sign for the crowds and cameras from BJP President Amit Shah in Delhi Akhilesh Yadav And Rahul Gandhi: Friends With Absolutely No Benefits
Akhilesh Yadav and Congress alliance no match for PM Modi It turns out that Akhilesh Yadav's big decisions in his attempt to stretch his political legs far from his father have backfired spectacularly. The 44-year-old Chief Minister today earned the distinction of being vanquished in the BJP's biggest ever result in India's most important state. Of 403 seats, the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is placed to win more than 300. Akhilesh Yadav, on the other hand, had accrued 61, with his junior partner, the Congress, proving party pooper by adding just another eight (based on leads at 1.30 pm).
Will Muslim Vote For The BJP? BSP Chief Mayawati Accuses BJP Of Poll Rigging
Bahujan Samaj Party chief has refused to accept that a part of the Muslim vote could have gone to the BJP. She has accused the BJP of tampering with the voting machines. "In 2014 too there were such fears. Press any button but the vote went to BJP," Mayawati has said.
Yes It's A Double Victory For BJP In Elections 2017This fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows how its party workers are celebrating the Uttar Pradesh election results and also the Uttarakhand win.
Battle Royale of Uttar Pradesh ElectionsIn Rani vs Rani battle in the prestigious Amethi, Garima Singh, the estranged wife of Maharaja of Amethi and Congress leader Sanjay Sihn, fighting on a BJP ticket leads.
UP Election Results: PM Modi's Super Wave Brings In Early Holi For BJPUttar Pradesh election results 2017: BJP now leading in 307 seats. While senior Congress leaders talk of introspection and building regional leaders, the ruling Samajwadi Party are absent from the scene after the drubbing at the hands of PM Modi-led BJP.
And the celebrations continue in Lucknow:
At the heart of BJP's big victory in Uttar Pradesh elections, is PM Modi's star power.
In BJP's UP, It Will Be All-Round Development, Says Keshav Prasad Maurya
It's not just Uttar Pradesh, the people have indicated Narendra Modi will continue as the Prime Minister after 2019 general elections, says BJP's UP state president Keshav Prasad Maurya.
'If You Were Rahul Gandhi, Would You Quit?' Sandeep Dikshit Responded....
Sandeep Dikshit says Congress does not build and back leaders
Sandeep Dikshit's willingness to call it like it is has made him an outlier within the Congress, which picked his mother, 74-year-old Sheila Dikshit, as its candidate for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, before it allied with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Today, as the Congress was reduced to roadkill by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's top-gear win in Uttar Pradesh, Mr Dikshit outlined the party's infirmities.
More proof of BJP's spectacular win which is now almost certain. It's leading on 306 of the 403 seats. "Tectonic shift in politics," says senior BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Saffron flags high up in he air in the national capital. 11 Ashoka Road, the headquarters of the BJP, is buzzing with people and a familiar chant - 'Modi, Modi' all the way.
BJP leading in 299 of UP's 403 seats
Yes We Can! Sounds familiar? It was Barack Obama's campaign punchline. It has made its way from Washington to Delhi. The BJP is triumphant, leads suggest.
The leads are in for 401 of the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. BJP is in for a big celebration today. It's state president Keshav Prasad Maurya says the party will make sure PM Modi continues gets a second term in 2019. It's 'Modi Modi' in Lucknow.
UP Election Results 2017 |
Total Seats | 402/403 |
BJP+ | 293 |
SP + Congress | 81
|
BSP | 19
|
Others | 9
|
Awaited | 1
|
The priced Amethi has both the BJP and the Congress wondering. Their candidates are trailing behind who? It's Samajwadi Party's Gayatri Prajapati.
Where to find him? Police is still looking. The rape-accused minister has refused to surrender and has been missing for days.
'Modi Modi' chants have begun in the streets of Lucknow outside the BJP headquarters. Party takes a power position in leads, setting up a major victory. Latest stats:
UP Election Results 2017 |
Total Seats | 369/403 |
BJP+ | 256 |
SP + Congress | 73 |
BSP | 35 |
Others | 5 |
Awaited | 34 |
Calm and casual: Shivpal Yadav leads from Jaswantnagar seat while the Samajwadi Party taking a bashing in leads.
Unperturbed, straight forward trends show BJP leading in over 230 seats, setting up for a clear win. Samajwadi-Congress combine is loosing all chances of catching up. Here are the new stats:
And the breakout of celebrations... BJP in leads cross the halfway mark of 202 and the party workers seem certain of victory.
Uttar Pradesh results are setting up ruling Samajwadi Party and Congress alliance for a drubbing. The early leads suggest BJP is likely to get a majority.
UP Election Results 2017 |
Total Seats | 280/403 |
BJP+ | 186 |
SP + Congress | 65 |
BSP | 25 |
Others | 4 |
Awaited | 120 |
BJP improves strike rate further to over 65 per cent. BJP is looking strong to win the big prize of UP. All credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Party says count Amit Shah in
At the moment, the whole idea of SP-Congress coming back seems to be completely out. The BJP seems to be heading for a comfortable majority.
Yogendra Yadav, founder Swaraj Abhiyaan
BJP is looking strong, Samajwadi-Congress pushed way behind in early leads
UP Election Results 2017 |
Total Seats | 135/403 |
BJP+ | 89 |
SP + Congress | 32 |
BSP | 12 |
Others | 2 |
Awaited | 265 |
A high-stakes, prestige battle for the Samajwadi Party in Lucknow Cantt: Mulayam Singh's
Choti bahu is ahead of veteran Rita Bahuguna Joshi fighting on a BJP
ticket
Spokesperson Sambit Patra says it's too early to smile as BJP gains momentum, much ahead of Samajwadi-Congress alliance and Mayawati's BSP in early leads.
BJP gains steam in Uttar Pradesh, is leading in 41 seats, widening the gap with the SP-Congress alliance which leads in 18
BJP in Uttar Pradesh is still at the top in early leads. SP-Congress alliance trailing by 6 seats.
The early leads are in for Uttar Pradesh. BJP leading at the moment in 5 seats followed by the rest:
UP Election Results 2017 |
Total Seats | 403 |
BJP+ | 5 |
SP + Congress | 3 |
BSP | 2 |
Others | 0 |
Awaited | 393 |
And some chest thumping by the BJP in anticipation: a poster outside the residence of Vijay Goyal speaks of the party's certain win (brownie points for rhyme and humour).
Counting has just begun.
And outside the Samajwadi Party office in Lucknow - not the leaders themselves - but life-size cut outs of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father and party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav
A 'Havan' For Akhilesh Yadav Ahead Of Game-Changing Results
Workers of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party performed a havan or ritual on Saturday morning, praying for victory just before counting began for what promises to be a game-changing election. The ritual was held not far from the residence in Lucknow of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who is hoping to defy exit poll predictions of a BJP win.
Political heavyweight and a BJP candidate from Lucknow Cantt Rita Bahuguna Joshi offers prayers at Hanuman Temple in Hazratganj
