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

Lucknow: Over 55 per cent voting was recorded till 6 pm in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on Thursday. Among the key candidates is Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting his first assembly poll from Gorakhpur.

Till 6 pm, an average turnout of 55.8 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.