57 UP Seats Vote, Yogi Adityanath Contests From Stronghold: 10 Facts

Lucknow: Fifty-seven seats of eastern Uttar Pradesh, spread across 10 districts, will vote today in the penultimate phase of election. Among the key candidates is Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting his first assembly poll from Gorakhpur.

Till 9 am, an average turnout of 8.7 per cent was recorded across the 57 UP constituencies that are voting today in the sixth phase of the crucial Assembly election.

With voting for 292 out of the state’s 403 assembly seats already over, the focus has shifted to the crucial Purvanchal region, which has 111 seats — more than a quarter of the total.

The BJP had won 46 of the 57 seats voting today in the 2017 polls. The seats are spread across Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia.

Yogi Adityanath, the five-time MP from his stronghold Gorakhpur, is contesting from the Gorakhpur Urban seat. In 2017, party MLA Radha Mohan Das Agrawal won the seat with a 60,000-vote margin. The Chief Minister voted today morning and asserted that the BJP would return to power, winning more than 300 seats.