BJP Wins 6, SP Nears 5 With Varanasi Lead: What MLC Results Signal Ahead Of 2027 UP Polls

UP MLC polls: BJP wins 6 seats; SP bags 4, claims Lucknow

UP MLC Polls Result: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won six of the 11 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats, while the Samajwadi Party (SP) secured four, also defeating the ruling party in the Lucknow graduates' and Agra teachers' constituencies. The results are being seen as symbolically significant ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

In a setback for the BJP, the SP won the Lucknow graduates' seat, where Kanti Singh Patel defeated the BJP's Awanish Kumar Singh, who had held the constituency. The SP also won the Agra teachers' seat, with Akash Agrawal emerging victorious on the party's ticket.

Of the 11 graduates' and teachers' constituencies, results had been declared for 10 as of 11.30 pm on Wednesday, with the BJP winning six and the SP four. In the Varanasi graduates' constituency, the SP candidate was leading by 9,491 votes at the end of the fifth round of counting, according to poll officials.

The BJP won the Agra graduates' constituency, the Bareilly-Moradabad teachers' constituency, the Lucknow teachers' constituency, both the teachers' and graduates' constituencies in Meerut, and the Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers' seat. The last of these witnessed a…

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