The ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP), which won a landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, lost a quarter of the seats they won last time. When the BJP lost 66 seats, its main rival, the Samajwadi Party, lost 12 seats. When the Congress and the BSP were ousted, the figures suggest that in most constituencies, they won a good share of the votes they won last time, which helped the Socialist Alliance to leapfrog. With that, the election turned into a BJP-Samajwadi direct battle. During the heavy fighting, the BJP rejected all predictions and consolidated its rule.
The BJP, which won 325 of the 403 seats last time, has been reduced to 273 seats this time. The Samajwadi Party jumped from 47 to 111 seats. While the SP alliance won 125 seats, including eight from the allied Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), the BJP’s tally rose from 312 to 255 seats. The BJP’s 66 sitting MLAs, including 10 ministers, fell. But despite losing 66 seats, the BJP captured 23 of its rivals’ seats. The Congress, which contested 399 seats, won a total of two seats. The BSP, which contested in 403, did not win a single seat. When the Congress repeated its victory in Rampur Khas, Fanendra won a new seat. The BSP’s only victory was in the Razar constituency.
SP and BJP with and without
While the Samajwadi Party won 60 seats in the BJP, the RLD, which sided with the SP, won six seats. Meanwhile, the BJP won 23 seats from the SP, Congress, BSP and SBSP. The BJP alliance was strengthened by giving some sitting seats to Nishad’s party and Apnadal. The BJP was relieved to have won most of them.
The BJP alliance has won a resounding victory over the Yogi regime, but is 52 seats short of last time. The BJP was shocked by the defeat of ministers, including Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, despite being able to survive the SP’s exciting campaign against the Yogi government, including the farmers’ strike and the Citizenship Amendment Act. Union Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has been appointed to oust SP leader Akhilesh Yadav in Kalhar. SP Bhagel lost by 67,000 votes.
At the same time, Keshav Prasad Maurya, the Deputy Chief Minister and architect of the BJP victory in 2017 in Sirat, was tasked by Pallavi, an actor who was found by the SP from the BJP camp itself. Pallavi, sister of Apnadal leader and Union Minister Anupriya Patel, defeated the Deputy Chief Minister by a margin of 7337 votes.
Meanwhile, the BJP has won 12 of the 47 seats won by the SP last time. The BJP won the constituencies under Mainpuri, Mulayam Singh’s Lok Sabha constituency, and the SP strongholds of Kannauj, Mohanlalganj and Jalalabad, as well as Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Karachanna, Bhatpur, Shanganj, Bandih and Mehmoodabad constituencies. The BJP also captured Ramkola, Asgora and Janjian constituencies which were in the hands of the SBSP.
SP wins Congress and BSP seats
The SP won most of the seats won by the Congress and the BSP last time. In 2017, the Congress, which contested in alliance with the SP, won seven seats. While Aradhana Mishra repeated her victory in the traditional Congress seat of Rampur Khas, the BJP and the SP won two of the other two seats. The BJP won in Tamkuhi Raj of PCC president Ajay Kumar Lallu and Rae Bareli in Sonia Gandhi’s constituency. Behat, Saharanpur, Kanpur Cantonment and Harchandpur won the SP.
Of the 399 Congress candidates, only 14 were released on bail. The only achievement of the Congress in this election was that it was able to win the Fanendra seat alone. This time, the performance of the BSP, which was limited to just one seat, was pathetic. Of the party’s more than 400 candidates who won 17 seats last time, only 100 got bail this time. Out of 17 seats, only Razara constituency won this time.
While the BJP won the Dolana, Mand, Siddhauli, Purva and Chillupur seats, which the BSP won last time, the SP and its allies SBDP Naupad and SBPD won the Lalganj, Fulpur, Powai, Sagri, Jalalpur, Mubarakpur, Didarganj, Badsapur and Kattehari seats. While the SP gained ground in the Muslim and Yadav areas of eastern UP, the BJP also advanced in Yogi’s Gorakhpur region.
While the SP won 28 seats in Ambedkar Nagar, Kaushambi, Ghasipur, Azamgarh and Shamili districts, even Keshav Prasad Maurya, a strongman in the Kaushambi region, lost. Minister Suresh Rana was also beaten in Shamili. In 2017, the BJP and its allies won in 13 of the 28 districts. Meanwhile, the BJP swept 27 of the 28 seats in the Gorakhpur constituency this time.
Of the three independents who won last time, Vinod Kumar of Babaganj and Raghuvar of Kunda repeated their victory as the Janasatha Dal party, but this time there were no non – partisans in the UP assembly. Aman Tiwari, the third independent to win in Nautanwa last time, contested as a BSP candidate and lost to Nishad’s Nishad party candidate.
The BJP alone won 3,80,51,721 (41.29%) of the polled votes, while its allies Apna Dal and Nishad’s party together garnered more than 40 million votes. The SP polled 2,90,43,934 (32.04), the BSP 1,18,73,161 (12.9%), the Congress 21,51,234 (2.3%) and the RLD 26,30,108 (2.85). Nota received 6,37,304 (0.7%) votes.
8 with a majority of over one lakh; With half a lakh31
UP also went to the polls with a record majority. The largest assembly majority in history was born in UP. Despite an average turnout of only 57 per cent in the state, the winners in eight constituencies have a majority of over one lakh. While 31 won with a majority of over half a million, 14 of the 403 winners were elected by less than 1,000 votes. 10 of them won with less than 500 votes. All but 27 of the total winners won by a majority of more than 2,000 votes.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and eight others who won over one lakh votes are from the BJP. Of the 31 who won a majority of over 50,000, three, including Colonel Akhilesh Yadav, are SPs and 28 are BJP members. Sunil Sharma won the highest majority in history in Sahibabad. 2,14,835 votes. Sunil got 3,22,882 votes while his opponent got only 1,08,047 votes.
In Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath’s majority is 1,03,390. Here, Bhim Aam Aadmi Party leader Chandrasekhar Azad, who is fighting against the Chief Minister, got only 7640 votes. The Congress got only 2880 votes. In Agra North Purushottam Khandolwal (majority 1,12,370), Ghaziabad Atul Garg (1,05,537), Hathras Anjula (1,00,856), Meerut Cantonment (1,18,072), Mathura (1,09,803) and Mehroni 1,10,451 Singh (1,81,513) is the other major majority.
Constituencies with a majority of over half a lakh
SP: Amroha, Karhal, Rampur
∙ BJP: Lucknow East, Maharajganj, Maharajpur, Marihan, Muradabad Nagar, Moradabad Rural, Anupshahr, Allahabad North, Barkhera, Baby, Fatehabad, Jawahar, Tzansi Nagar Khair, Khurja, Parihara, Paniara, These constituencies are Pur, Siswa, Varanasi Cantonment, Tum Hiraj, Siena and Tarabganj.
Fifteen won by a majority of less than 1,000 votes. Of these, 9 are from the BJP and 6 from the SP. The BJP has a majority of 782 votes in Moradabad Nagar and 719 votes in Vishnu Ganj. The SP has a majority of 836 votes in Jasrana and 771 votes in Domariaganj.
Constituencies with less than 500 majority: Barot-BJP (315), Chandrapur-SP (234), Khatta-BJP (357), Isuli-SP (269), Nukur-BJP (258), Fulpur-BJP (277), Ramnagar SP (261) Kursi-BJP (217) Dhampur-BJP (203), Bilaspur-BJP (307) and Dibiyapur-SP (473).
Beatings and touches to defectors
The election also saw the defeat of many prominent figures who had switched parties before the election. Former minister Swami Prasad Maurya and some of his associates, who left the party and joined the SP after dropping allegations against the BJP, were defeated. Of the four SBSP MLAs who defected to the BJP, only party president OP Rajbhar won in Zahurabad.
In Fazil Nagar, Swami Prasad Maurya lost to the BJP by 45,000 votes. Roshan Lal Verma, who contested on the SP ticket in Tilhar, Avatar Singh Badana, who contested in Jawahar, and Brijendra Prajapati, who contested in Tindwari, lost, while Dharamsingh Saini won in Ghosi and Mukesh Verma in Firozabad. Maurya left the party with 10 MLAs, including three ministers, to challenge the BJP.
BJP in controversial constituencies
The BJP has dominated most of the constituencies that have garnered national attention through controversy, including torture and murder. The BJP also hoisted the victory flag in Ayodhya, which is notable for its Ram temple. In Ayodhya, the BJP won a majority of 19,990 votes. With the assassination of Mohammad Akhlaq over beef, the BJP won the much-discussed Dadri constituency with a majority of 1,38,210 votes and Hathras with 1,00,856 votes. The BJP retained the constituency with a majority of 19,900 votes in Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight farmers were killed during the agitation, while the BJP won with a majority of 31,000 votes in Unnao.
Asha Singh, the mother of the girl victim in Unnao, came as a Congress candidate but got only 1555 votes. The BJP also won the next Sadar constituency. In Lakhimpur, where the farmers’ strike was raging, the BJP polled 1,27,663 votes, while the Congress polled 2,834 votes and the CPI (M) 1119 votes. In Muzaffarpur, where communal riots made headlines, the BJP won with a majority of 18,694 votes. The BJP has won four constituencies in the capital Lucknow, four in the prime minister’s constituency of Varanasi, three in Allahabad and four in most major cities, including Agra.
English Summary: BJP and SP’s Performance in UP Assembly Elections 2022- Statistics