Samajwadi Party grabs 23 seats in MLC polls

Lucknow: Ruling Samajwadi Party has grabbed 23 seats out of 28 of which results were declared till Sunday morning. Polling on a total of 28 seats was held on March 3.

The results so far:

• Varanasi: Independent candidate Brijesh Singh defeated Meena Singh of SP.
• Raebareli: Dinesh Pratap Singh of Congress won.
• Sultanpur: SP candidate Shailendtra Singh defeated KC Tripathi of BJP by 720 votes. It is fourth straight win for Shailendra.
• Deoria: Ram Awadh Yadav of SP defeated Ajit Shahi of BSP by 1381 votes.
• Faizabad: Hiralal Yadav of SP defeated Surendra Pandey of BJP.
• Shahjahanpur: Amit Yadav of SP defeated JPS Rathore of BJP by 897 votes.
• Basti: Santosh Yadav of SP defeated Gillam Chaudhary of BJP.
• Jhansi: Rama Niranjan of SP defeated BJP candidate. Rama polled 2800 votes while BJP candidate managed to get only 171 votes.
• Badayun: Banwari Singh Yadav of SP defeated Jitendra Yadav of BJP by 1723 votes.
• Bareilly: Ghanshyam Lodhi of SP defeated P P Patel of BJP by 1323 votes.
• Lakhimpur: Shashank Yadav of SP defeated Itendra Verma of BJP by huge margin.
• Moradabad: Parwez Ali of SP defeated Asha Singh of BJP by 4434 votes.
• Ghazipur: Independent candidate Vishal Singh defeated Sanand Singh of SP by 65 votes.

• Bahraich: Abhilash Khan of SP defeated Tripurari Mani of BJP by 705 votes.

• Gorakhpur: C P Chandra defeated Jai Prakash Yadav. C P Chandra polled 1589 votes. Jai Prakash was expelled from Samajwadi Party.

• Fatehpur: Dilip Singh of SP defeated Ashok Katiyar of BJP by 1787 votes.

• Bulandshahr: Narendra Bhati of SP defeated Sanjay Sharma of BJP by 1018 votes.

• Jaunpur: Brijesh Kumar of BSP defeated Lallan Yadav of SP by 765 votes.

• Farukhabad: Pushpraj Jain won from Etawah seat by getting 3515 votes.

• Allahabad: Vasudev Yadav of SP won from Kaushambi. Raees Shukla of BJP managed to get 3515 votes.

• Saharanpur: Mehboob Ali of BSP defeated Surat Singh of BJP by 1367 votes.

• Azamgarh: Rakesh Yadav of SP defeated Rajesh Singh of BJP.