UP Elections Results 2022: Highlights

UP Elections Results 2022: Bhartiya Janta Party(BJP) has scripted history in Uttar Pradesh as it recollected supremacy and power for the 2nd tenure in India’s most populous state of political importance. In the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the BJP has won 255 seats, 53 more than the halfway mark of 202. Its allies Apna Dal(S) and Nishad Party clinched 12 and 6 seats respectively in the UP Elections Results 2022.

Indian National Congress(INC) just succeeded to conquest 2 seats, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) could only get 1 seat regardless of polling 12.88 per cent votes in the UP Elections Results 2022.

UP ELECTIONS RESULTS 2022: GRAPH OF VICTORY

UP ELECTIONS RESULTS 2022: PARTY WISE RESULTS

UP ELECTIONS RESULTS 2022: PERECENTAGE OF VOTE SHARE

• In the UP Elections Results 2022, The BJP’s vote stake rose to 41.29 % as compared to 39.67 %in the 2017 Assembly Elections.
• The vote share of the Samajwadi Paty(SP) in the UP Elections Results 2022 increased from 21.82 % in 2017 to 32.06 %.
• In Uttar Pradesh, the Sena had captured 0.03% votes approximately while NOTA has accumulated 0.69% votes.
• According to the website of the Election Commission of India(ECI), the vote share of NOTA (none of the above) in the UP Elections Results 2022 stood at 0.69%, obscuring the vote share of Aam Admi Party(AAP) (0.35%) and Janta Dal United(JD-U) (0.11%).
• BSP has obtained the third-highest vote share by bagging 12.9 per cent of the total votes polled in the state elections, according to the UP Elections Results 2022 figures.
• The UP Assembly Elections were swept by the BJP for a straightforward 2^nd term after it secured the highest 41.3 % vote share, followed by the Samajwadi Party with 32 per cent votes in the UP Elections Results 2022.

UP ELECTIONS RESULTS 2022: IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS

• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is set to become the 1^st incumbent returning to power after serving a full term.
• It will be the 1^st time since 1985 that a ruling party has returned to power in Uttar Pradesh.
• The UP polls are being perceived as an indicator of the national mood ahead of the 2024 general elections.
• Yogi Adityanath is the 1^st chief minister of state who returned to power after completing a five-year term.
• It was after 37 years that a party retained power in Uttar Pradesh.
• Yogi Adiyanath is the 1^st Chief Minister in 15 years to have contested an assembly election.
• Yogi Adityanath is also the 1^st BJP chief minister to be re-elected for the 2^nd
• The Party’s other three chief ministers – Kalyan Singh, Ram Prakash Gupta and Rajnath Singh could not return to power.
• BJP’s Anjula Singh Mahaur won the Hathras seat with a huge margin of 1,00,856 votes as he bagged 1,54655 votes while Bahujan Samaj Party’s Sanjeev Kumar was got 53799 votes.
• Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya lost Sirathu to his Samajwadi Party opponent, Pallavi Patel, by a margin of 7,337 votes.
• Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, and Rural Development, Anand Swaroop Shukla, was beaten by Samajwadi Party’s Jai Prakash Anchal from Bairia constituency by 12,951 votes.
• Sports Minister Upendra Tiwari lost the elections from Phephana constituency, losing to Samajwadi Party’s Sangram Singh by a margin of 19,354 votes.
• Cabinet Minister Rajendra Pratap Singh, popularly known as Moti Singh, also lost the elections from the Patti seat to Samajwadi Party’s Ram Singh by a margin of 22,051 votes.
• Sugarcane Minister Suresh Kumar Rana was defeated by Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Ashraf Ali Khan by a margin of 10,806 votes in the Thana Bhawan Assembly.
• Education Minister Satish Chandra lost to Samajwadi Party’s Mata Prasad Pandey in Itwa by 1,662 votes.

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