UP Election Results 2017: With BJP's clean sweep, here's a look at the partywise performance of heavyweights

After the month-long high-octane polling exercise, the suspense has finally ended and its a clean sweep for brand Modi. The Bharatiya Janata Party has registered an unprecedented win in a state where it was pushed to the sidelines in the past decade.

The high-stake election was on one hand a prestige issue for the BJP, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi heavily involved in campaigning. It was a litmus test for Akhilesh Yadav who recently took charge as the national president of the Samajwadi Party after ousting his father Mulayam Singh Yadav from the top post. Since Akhilesh took over the reins of the Samajwadi Party in January, this is the first Assembly election where he is calling all the shots ranging from choice of candidates to deciding the party’s poll strategy. Besides, the election was seen as a virtual referendum on Modi’s demonetisation decision, which sucked out 80 percent cash out of the system. The election was equally crucial for Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party, which could have salvaged its electoral defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and the 2012 Assembly polls but was reduced to the sidelines with merely 19 seats, it’s worst performance in years. But apart from the personal agendas of the three main contending parties at stake, many key players were in the fray for the seven-phase polls. Here is how some of the key candidates fared in their respective seats. Bharatiya Janata Party The ruling party at the Centre repeated its sweep in the Assembly election with an unprecedented 312 seats, indicating that the Modi wave is far from spent at least in the Hindi heartland. The BJP, which has been out of power in UP for 14 years, was anxiously waiting for the “lotus” to bloom in the politically crucial state. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP and its ally, Apna Dal, swept the polls bagging 73 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats, riding the Modi wave. Now that the BJP has won the most crucial northern Indian state, it is to be seen who wins the chief ministerial race in the party that lacks a clear leader in Uttar Pradesh. Our guess is that Sunil Bansal, Amit Shah’s right-hand man in Uttar Pradesh could be the chosen one. Bansal, hailing from Rajasthan, was handpicked by Shah after he caught Shah’s eye in the run-up to 2014 polls. A through and through ABVP man, Bansal is likely to meet Sangh’s approval too.

Constituncies	Candidate Name	Result
Meerut	Dr Laxmikant Bajpai	Lost
Noida	Pankaj Singh	Won
Mathura	Shrikant Sharma	Won
Sardhana	Sangeet Som	Won
Atrauli	Sandeep Kumar	Won
Dadri	Tejpal Singh Nagar	Won
Muzaffar Nagar	Kapil Dev Agarwal	Won
Kairana	Mriganka Singh	Lost
Agra South	Yogendra Upadhyaya	Won
Bulandshahr	Virendra Singh Sirohi	Won
Ghaziabad	Atul Garg	Won
Saharanpur	Manoj Chaudhary	Lost
Deoband	Brijesh	Won
Muradnagar	Ajit Pal Tyagi	Won
Chandausi	Gulab Devi	Won
Bareilly	Dr. Arun Kumar	Won
Bhagwantnagar	Hridya Narayan Dikshit	Won
Lucknow East	Ashutosh Tandon	Won
Lucknow Cantt	Rita Bahuguna Joshi	Won
Govind Nagar	Satya Dev Pachauri	Won
Arya Nagar	Salil Vishnoi	Lost
Maharajpur	Satish Mahana	Won
Unchahar	Utkrisht Maurya	Lost
Jhansi Nagar	Ravi Sharma	Won
Allahabad West	Siddharth Nath Singh	Won
Bikapur	Shobha Singh Chauhan	Won
Gonda	Prateek Bhushan Singh	Won
Amethi	Garima Singh	Won
Kaiserganj	Mukut Bihari	Won
Gorakhpur Urban	Radha Mohan Das Agrawal	Won
Deoria	Janmejai Singh	Won
Gorakhpur Rural	Bipin Singh	Won
Padrauna	Swami Prasad Maurya	Won
Varanasi North	Ravindra Jaiswal	Won
Varanasi South	Dr. Neelkanth Tiwari	Won
Varanasi Cant	Saurav Srivastava	Won
Chunar	Anurag Singh	Won

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance in Uttar Pradesh left no stones unturned to stop the BJP juggernaut, which had earlier stumbled in Bihar and Delhi, and lead the way for opposition unity in the run-up to the 2019 General Election to Lok Sabha. However, the Yadav Pari-“war” has been grabbing headlines since October last year, when the Yadav scion and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav finally decided to move out of the shadows of his uncle and father. The high decibel family drama, totally comparable to your average Bollywood thriller, culminated into Akhilesh wresting control of the party out of the hands of Shivpal and Mulayam. The party further ran into trouble when one of its candidates, Gayatri Prajapati, faced charges of raping a minor girl. While asserting it will retain power in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday did not rule out joining hands with arch rival Mayawati to prevent Presidents’ Rule in case of a fractured mandate. Mayawati, however, had chosen to keep mum on the issue.

Constituncies	Candidate Name	Result
Aligarh	Zafar Alam	Lost
Bijnor	Ruchi Vira	Lost
Moradabad Nagar	Mohammad Yusuf	Lost
Suar	Abdullah Azam	Won
Rampur	Azam Khan	Won
Amroha	Mehboob Ali	Won
Badaun	Abid Raza Khan	Lost
Pilibhit	Riaz Ahmad	Lost
Lucknow North	Abhishek Mishra	Lost
Chhibramau	Arvind Singh Yadav	Lost
Sishamau	Haji Irfan Solanki	Won
Ram Nagar	Arvind Kumar Gope	Lost
Lucknow Central	Ravidas Mehrotra	Lost
Kannauj	Anil Dohare	Won
Etawah	Kuldeep Gupta	Lost
Barabanki	Dharam Singh Yadav	Won
Lucknow Cant	Aparna Yadav	Lost
Jaswant Nagar	Shivpal Yadav	Won
Kursi	Fareez Mahfooz Kidwai	Lost
Allahabad South	Parvez Ahmad	Lost
Babina	Yashpal Singh Yadav	Lost
Garautha	Deep Narayan Singh	Lost
Phaphamau	Ansar Ahmad	Lost
Soraon	Satveer Munna	Lost
Ayodhya	Tej Narayan Pandey	Lost
Jalalabad	Sharadvir Singh	Won
Akbarpur	Ram Murti Verma	Lost
Matera	Yasar Shah	Won
Mehnaun	Rahul Shukla	Lost
Amethi	Gyatri Prajapati	Lost
Tarabganj	Vinod Kumar	Lost
Domariyaganj	Ram Kumar	Lost
Kushi Nagar	Braham Shankar Tripathi	Won
Azamgarh	Durga Prasad Yadav	Won
Ghosi	Sudhakar	Lost
Ghazipur	Rajesh Kushwaha	Lost
Mirzapur	Kailash Nath Chaurasia	Lost
Bhadohi	Jahid Beg	Lost
Robertsganj	Avinash Kushvaha	Lost
Badlapur	Om Prakash Baba Dubey	Lost

Congress Akhilesh forged a pre-poll alliance with the Congress, which would now arguably be known as a monumental mistake for years to come. As the alliance, seen as the BJP’s main rival, failed to outscore the saffron juggernaut, it has created problems galore for the outgoing chief minister who was embroiled in a bitter family feud. SP-Congress loss also lost its chance to salvage an already sidelined Opposition that was swamped by a Modi wave since BJP stormed to power in 2014. Winning UP also means that the BJP will now get to nominate 31 Rajya Sabha members, where up till now it was in minority.

Constituncies	Candidate Name	Result
Nakur	Imran Masood	Lost
Tilhar	Jitin Prasada	Lost
Saharanpur	Masood Akhtar	Won
Rae Barelly	Aditi Singh	Won
Allahabad North	Anurag Narayan Singh	Lost
Rampur Khas	Aradhana Misra	Won
Amethi	Ameeta Singh	Lost
Maharajganj	Alok Prasad	Lost
Rudrapur	Akhilesh Pratap Singh	Lost
Jaunpur	Nadeeb Javed	Lost
Marihan	Lalitesh Pati Tripathi	Lost

Bahujan Samaj Party A win was crucial for Bahujan Samaj Party that has traditionally claimed the unwavering loyalty of Dalit voters in the state, but was annihilated in the last Assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls. However, BSP supremo Mayawati, otherwise known for her political astuteness, failed to combine Dalit and Muslim votes breaking away from SP in the wake of Mulayam’s forced political exile. The exit poll predictions had projected heavy losses for Mayawati’s BSP but the BSP supremo had written them off. Turns out that the actual poll results show a shoddier performance for her party with just 19 seats in its account. It has now been relegated to the third position in its home turf, failing to reach even a respectable mark. Mayawati was the first Chief Minister in decades to complete a five-year term in UP without the crutches of an alliance government. In February, Modi had mocked Mayawati’s opposition to note ban, saying BSP is no longer Bahujan Samaj Party but ‘Behenji Sampatti Party’. Mayawati returned the barb by saying he was ‘Mr Negative Dalit Man’.

Constituncies	Candidate Name	Result
Meerut South	Haji Mohammad Yaqub	Lost
Najibabad	Jameed Ahmad	Lost
Meerganj	Sultan Beg	Lost
Naraini	Gaya Charan Dinkar	Lost
Kaptanganj	Ram Prasad Chaudhary	Lost
Mau	Mukhtar Ansari	Won
Ballia Nagar	Narad Rai	Lost
Chauri Chaura	Jai Prakash	Lost
Bansgaon	Dharmendra Kumar	Lost
Mughalsarai	Tilak Dharti	Lost
Shivpur	Virender Singh	Lost
Duddhi	Vijay Singh Gond	Lost
Obra	Virendra Pratap Singh	Lost

 

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