UP MLC Election Results: BJP Wins Five Seats, Samajwadi Party Secures Three

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) are competing closely in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections, which are being viewed as a political test ahead of the state Assembly elections. According to the supplied report, results for eight of the 11 seats have been declared, with the BJP winning five and the SP securing three. Counting is continuing in the remaining three constituencies, where the SP is reportedly leading in two and the BJP in one. The SP registered significant victories in Varanasi, Agra and Jhansi. In the Varanasi Teachers’ constituency, sitting MLC and SP candidate Lal Bihari Yadav defeated BJP nominee Pramod Mishra by approximately 4,900 votes. The SP also won the Agra Teachers’ seat through Dr Akash Agarwal and secured the Jhansi Graduates’ constituency.

The BJP won the Meerut Graduates’, Meerut Teachers’, Lucknow Teachers’, Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ and Agra Graduates’ seats. In Meerut, Dinesh Kumar Goyal and Shrichand Sharma won the Graduates’ and Teachers’ constituencies, respectively. BJP candidate Hari Singh Dhillon defeated SP nominee Danish Akhtar by 17,676 votes in the Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ constituency. The BJP was also reported to be leading in the Gorakhpur Teachers’ constituency after initially trailing. Separately, SP president Akhilesh Yadav alleged that Dr Akash Agarwal was attacked after his victory in Agra. Sharing a video showing Agarwal in a torn kurta on social media platform X, Akhilesh demanded that election officials issue the winning candidate’s