UP Assembly Elections 2022 Date: The Election Commission has announced the dates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra told that elections will be held in total 7 phases in UP, which will start from February 10 and will run till March 7. The commission said that the votes will be cast in UP on February 10, February 14, February 22, February 23, February 27, March 3 and March 7. The counting of assembly elections in all the five states, including UP, will be held on March 10. That is, on March 10, it will be known which party will be the next government in UP. Let us know in which phase in which districts the votes will be cast in UP.
As for the last time, this time in UP also the elections will start from West UP. In the first phase, on February 10, voting will be held for a total of 58 assembly seats in Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Noida, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura, Agra districts. Notification for this phase will be issued on January 14 and candidates will be able to enroll till January 21. Voting will take place on February 10.
second stage
In the second phase, voting will be held on February 14 for 55 assembly seats in Saharanpur, Bijnor, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Badaun, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur districts. The notification for this phase will be issued on January 21 and candidates will be able to enroll their nominations till January 28.
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third step
In the third phase, polling will be held on February 22 in the assembly seats of Kasganj, Hathras, Etah, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jhansi, Lalitpur districts. The notification for this phase will be issued on January 25 and candidates will be able to file their forms till February 1.
In the fourth phase, polling will be held on February 23 in the assembly seats of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Fatehpur and Banda districts. The notification for this phase will be issued on January 27 and candidates will be able to file their forms till February 3.
fifth stage
In the fifth phase, voting will be held on February 27 for the assembly seats of Bahraich, Shravasti, Barabanki, Gonda, Ayodhya, Amethi, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Chitrakoot and Prayagraj districts. The notification for this phase will be issued on February 1 and candidates will be able to file their forms till February 8.
Under the sixth phase, voting will be held on March 3 for the assembly seats of Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Ambedkar Nagar, Deoria and Ballia districts. The notification for this phase will be issued on February 4 and candidates will be able to file their forms till February 11.
seventh and last stage
Voting will be held on March 7 for a total of 64 assemblies in Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Mau, Varanasi, Ghazipur, Sant Ravidasnagar, Mirzapur, Chandauli and Sonbhadra districts in the seventh and final phase. The notification for this phase will be issued on February 10 and candidates will be able to file their forms till February 17.
What was the result in 2017?
There is currently BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP-led alliance surprised everyone by winning 325 of the 404 assembly seats in UP. At the same time, the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, which was in power at that time, was reduced to just 47 seats. Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party had won 19 seats. Whereas only 7 seats came in the account of Congress.
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