The Bharatiya Janta Party wins the Nagar Panchayat polls in Amethi. Amethi is Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's constituency.  Lalganj in Rae Bareli, Sonia Gandhi's constituency, goes to the Aam Aadmi Party.

Union minister Smriti Irani who was the BJP's candidate in Amethi, says Rahul in unacceptable even in his own constituency.

The BJP today forged ahead of its rivals, leading on 14 of the 16 mayoral seats in Uttar Pradesh where the civic bodies polls were held in three
phases. In the remaining two places, the BSP was leading, according to trends from these seats in the first four hours of counting of votes for all the 652 urban local bodies that began at 8am.

Counting of ballots polled in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29 was on under tight security cover and CCTV surveillance at 334 centres at district and tehsil headquarters, the state election commission said.

Polling was held for 16 nagar nigams, 198 nagar palika parishads and 438 nagar panchayats with an average turnout of all the three phases estimated at 52.5 per cent of the 3.32 crore voters. The Yogi Adityanath government, soon after assuming office in March, had constituted two municipal  corporations of Ayodhya and Vrindavan-Mathura.