While the ruling BJP romped house within the UP Assembly elections by successful 273 out of the overall 403 seats, the principal challenger SP garnered extra postal votes than the previous within the polls.
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An evaluation of postal ballots solid in UP’s 403 constituencies present that the SP-led alliance topped the contenders in garnering them in 311 seats. The BJP-led alliance, alternatively, obtained extra postal votes than its rivals in 90 constituencies.
The BJP had a clean crusing within the polls, successful 255 seats with its ally Apna Dal(S) successful 12 and one other ally Nishad celebration getting 6 seats. A distant runner-up, the SP received 111 seats, whereas its allies, RLD and SBSP, obtained 8 and 6 seats, respectively.
Out of the overall practically 4.42 lakh postal votes solid within the UP elections, the SP alliance received a majority of those ballots, that are counted within the preliminary spherical of vote-counting. While the SP alliance garnered altogether 2.25 lakh postal poll votes, the BJP alliance obtained 1.48 lakh such votes.
After his celebration’s defeat, SP president Akhilesh Yadav sought to spotlight his celebration’s postal vote benefit, tweeting that “The SP-Alliance got 51.5% votes in the postal ballot and according to that, the victory of the SP-Alliance in 304 seats is telling the truth of the election.” He also thanked every “true” authorities worker, instructor and different voter who exercised their postal franchise in favor of his alliance.
Dismissing Akhilesh’s cost, BJP spokesperson Harish Chandra Srivastava mentioned, “Opposition’s allegation is ridiculous…they never accept the mandate given by people. Such a voting trend is seen also at booth level. The winner of any constituency loses in certain booths but emerges victorious by getting maximum votes in other polling booths.”
In the elections, postal ballots have been allowed for use by voters flagged as Persons with Disabilities (PwD), aged above 80 years, employed in notified important companies, licensed Covid constructive/suspect individuals, and people deployed in safety forces or for election- associated responsibility.
“As majority of the voters in these categories are from government, it seems that SP’s poll promise of restoring old pension in government jobs worked in their favour. After SP promised this in its manifesto, the BSP too made the same promise. But voters trusted SP largely,” mentioned an SP chief.
A BJP chief mentioned, “Certainly, old pension scheme and other promises related to jobs and freebies worked in SP’s favour. But that does not mean that SP should claim a win merely on postal ballot votes. In past elections too, it has been seen that winning candidate on any seat had got less postal votes in comparison to nominees who finished second or third.”
A phase-wise evaluation of postal votes polled within the UP elections exhibits that the BJP candidates topped their opponents in getting such ballots in 51 seats within the first section, which noticed the celebration rising because the winner in 46 of 58 seats. The SP-RLD obtained extra postal votes than the BJP in 7 seats on this section, at the same time as they received 12 seats.
But from the second section onwards, the SP alliance took the lead in garnering postal ballots. Out of 55 seats at stake within the second section, the SP alliance obtained extra postal votes than the incumbent alliance in 37 seats, though it might lastly win solely 24 seats. The BJP alliance, which had a postal poll lead in 18 seats, completed because the winner in 31 seats within the ultimate tally.
In the third section, the BJP alliance beat the SP alliance when it comes to getting votes by submit in 13 seats, whereas the latter topped in 46 seats on this regard. The ruling alliance obtained the postal poll edge over its rivals solely in 1 seat within the fourth section, 2 seats every within the fifth and the sixth phases, and in 3 seats within the seventh section of polls. The 3 seats within the seventh section the place the BJP topped in bagging postal ballots embrace Varanasi North, Varanasi South and Varanasi Cantonment seats of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi parliamentary constituency, the place the PM had led a highway present in assist of the BJP candidates.
In the ultimate outcomes, the BJP alliance received 44 seats as towards the SP coalition’s 15 within the third section. It received 49 seats towards the SP alliance’s 10 within the fourth section and 37 seats towards the latter’s 21 seats within the fifth section. The incumbent camp obtained 39 seats as in comparison with the primary Opposition’s 16 within the sixth section. Both the alliances received 27 seats every within the seventh section of elections.
In Sikandarpur seat, each the BJP and the SP obtained 224 postal ballots, even because the SP lastly received the seat with a margin of 11,855 votes.
The Congress celebration, which managed to win solely 2 seats, topped the fray there on postal poll rely too. The BSP received only one seat, Rasra, however it obtained lesser postal votes there than the loser SP.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
