UP polls: 15 MLAs face drubbing at threshold of victory

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LUCKNOW: Who can higher perceive the importance of each unmarried vote however those that needed to style the defeat regardless of being on the thresh hang of victory.

They ended up dropping their seat by way of a particularly narrow margin of even lower than 500 votes.

In UP, the BJP emerged victorious and changed into the one birthday party to have repeated a time period after 37 years in state polity. Effects display that the race for Lucknow has been received on tighter margins than what they had been 5 years in the past. The struggle used to be so shut that no less than on 15 of 403 seats, the victory-defeat hole used to be lower than 1000 votes.  Of the 15 seats, no less than 11 applicants received their seats with lower than 500 votes.

In Uttar Pradesh, the median margin of victory got here all the way down to 18,144 in 2022 as in comparison to 25,759 in 2017. Whilst BJP misplaced six seats with a margin of beneath 1000 votes, Samajwadi Birthday party needed to face drubbing on 9 such seats. In 2017, round 8 applicants had received the seats with a margin beneath 1000 votes, in 2022, the choice of such applicants has doubled.

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On a majority of seats, the contests used to be bipolar between the BJP and SP applicants. They fought the combat of lakhs of votes however the margin of defeat or victory gotten smaller to a couple of hundred or 1000 in spite of everything.

Dhampur seat in Bijnor witnessed a fierce combat of poll through which BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rana received however with a margin as skinny as 203 votes. Right here the SP candidate Naeemul Hassan of SP garnered 81,588 votes. In this seat, 834 electorate pressed NOTA.

In a similar way,  at the Kursi seat in Barabanki, SP stalwart Beni Prasad Verma’s son Rakesh Verma used to be now not lucky sufficient to sail thru and he used to be defeated by way of BJP Sakendra Pratap Verma by way of a margin of simply 213 votes. Swami Omvesh of SP defeated his nearest rival Kamlesh Saini of BJP within the Chandpur seat in Bijnor by way of a margin of 234 votes. Whilst BJP Kamesh Saini were given round 90000 votes however she may just now not sail thru. Right here 854 electorate went with NOTA.

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In a similar way, on round 53 seats, the margin of victory has remained lower than or as much as 5000. On 51 seats, the margin has been over 50,000 votes. Of those 51, whilst the BJP received 44, six have long gone to SP whilst one seat of Mauranipur has been received by way of BJP best friend Apna Dal (S).

Some of the SP applicants fielded on 347 seats, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Birthday party-Lohia (PSP-Lohia)  leader and Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav registered the largest victory by way of a margin of 90,979 votes from his conventional Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah.  Shivpal had contested the election at the SP image and were given round 1.5 lakh votes. On the other hand, SP leader Akhilesh Yadav too were given round 1.48 lakh votes however the margin of his victory used to be 67,000.

At the different, two of the BJP applicants—Sunil Kumar Sharma in Sahibabad (Ghaziabad) and Pankaj Singh (Noida) – created data by way of defeating their respective opponents from SP by way of report margins. Whilst Sunil Kumar Sharma received the election in Sahibabad by way of a margin of two,14,835 votes trouncing SP’s Amarpal Sharma, Pankaj Singh defeated his nearest rival Sunil Chaudhury of SP by way of a margin of one,81000 votes securing 70.83 in step with cent votes.

Record of MLAs who misplaced by way of lower than 500 votes

Dhampur: BJP wins; Margin: 203 votes
Kursi: BJP wins; Margin: 217 votes
Chandpur : SP wins; Margin: 234 votes
Nehtaur: BJP wins; Margin : 258
Ramnagar: SP wins; Margin: 261
IsauIi: SP wins; Margin: 269 votes
Bilaspur: BJP wins; Margin: 307 votes
Nakur: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
Baraut: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
Katra: BJP wins: Margin: 357 votes
Dibiyapur: SP wins; Margin: 473 votes
Shahganj: NISAHD wins; Margin: 719 votes
Domariyaganj: SP wins; Margin: 771 votes
Moradabad City: BJP wins; Margin: 782 votes
Jasrana: SP wins; Margin: 836 votes