UP civic polls: Counting underway

December 01, 2017 09:24

The counting of the three-phase municipal elections or 652 urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh is underway.

The result of this election will be seen as a referendum on Yogi Adityanath governments performance in the last seven months.

The elections was conducted in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29 and the voter turnout was around 52.4 per cent.

Over 3.36 crore voters exercised their rights at 36,269 polling booths in the state to decide the fate of 79,113 candidates.

In the last municipal elections in 2012, the BJP had won by a landslide, bagging 10 out of 12 mayoral positions.

The current Deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Dinesh Sharma was elected as the Lucknow mayor. However this time, the city will get a woman mayor as the Lucknow mayoral seat has been reserved for women.

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