UP Assembly Polls: Sixth phase polling rises around 2 per cent from 2012

Lucknow: The sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections passed off peacefully and recorded a moderate turnout of 57.03 per cent on Saturday.

The polling began at 7 in the morning and concluded at 5 in the evening.

The highest polling percentage was recorded at Pipraich (63.50 per cent), while Bansgaon recorded the lowest at 50.00 per cent. Interestingly, both the constituencies fall under Gorakhpur district.

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The district wise polling percentage has seen a rise of about two per cent as compared to the 2012 Assembly elections (55.69 per cent).

A total of 635 candidates are in fray for the 49 constituencies, spread across 7 districts in the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

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Out of the 49 assembly seats in the seven districts the major focus would lay on Samajwadi Party Patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Lok Sabha constituency Azamgarh and the LS constituency of Bharatiya Janata Party’s firebrand leader Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur.

Azamgarh has 10 assembly seats, of which SP had won nine in 2012, but this time Mulayam has not addressed a single meeting in his parliamentary constituency

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While the SP patron has not actively participated in these polls, reason may be the internal feud or alliance with the Congress, which was done against his will, the poll campaign for the phase witnessed BJP’S MP from Gorakhpur lashing out some controversial religious comments in his campaigns. Besides Adityanath, the prestige of Union minister Kalraj Mishra, who represents Deoria in the Lok Sabha, will also be at stake.

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Another interesting fight would be seen in the district of Mau where the BSP has fielded jailed gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari from the Mau assembly seat. While Mukhtar is contesting from Mau, his son Abbas is in fray from adjoining Ghosi seat in Mau district.

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Check the constituency-wise comparative data of polling in 2017 and 2012 elections:

Azamgarh (Average 56.38 per cent)

Atrauliya 56.10 per cent (57.60 per cent in 2012)

Gopalpur 56.00 per cent (54.15 per cent in 2012)

Sagri 55.00 per cent (53.16 per cent in 2012)

Mubarakpur 58.10 per cent (58.72 per cent in 2012)

Azamgarh 58.00 per cent (54.45 per cent in 2012)

Nizamabad 53.60 per cent (52.22 per cent in 2012)

Phoolpur Pawai 58.00 per cent (56.82 per cent in 2012)

Didarganj 57.00 per cent (54.61 per cent in 2012)

Lalganj (SC) 55.00 per cent (50.22 per cent in 2012)

Mehnagar (SC) 57.00 per cent (50.29 per cent in 2012)

Balia (Average 55.57 per cent)

Belthara Road (SC) 54.00 per cent (54.67 per cent in 2012)

Rasara 54.00 per cent (59.27 per cent in 2012)

Sikanderpur 59.00 per cent (54.96 per cent in 2012)

Phephana 58.00 per cent (55.54 per cent in 2012)

Ballia Nagar 58.16 per cent (48.65 per cent in 2012)

Bansdih 55.00 per cent (53.81 per cent in 2012)

Bairia 50.80 per cent (44.37 per cent in 2012)

Deoria (Average 54.89 per cent)

Rudrapur 52.70 per cent (51.73 per cent in 2012)

Deoria 53.00 per cent (51.10 per cent in 2012)

Pathardeva 58.50 per cent (55.59 per cent in 2012)

Rampur Karkhana 59.00 per cent (52.74 per cent in 2012)

Bhatpar Rani 53.84 per cent (52.04 per cent in 2012)

Salempur (SC) 54.20 per cent (45.94 per cent in 2012)

Barhaj 53.00 per cent (53.87 per cent in 2012)

Gorakhpur (Average 56.89 per cent)

Caimpiyarganj 59.00 per cent (58.33 per cent in 2012)

Pipraich 63.50 per cent (59.72 per cent in 2012)

Gorakhpur Urban 56.00 per cent (46.19 per cent in 2012)

Gorakhpur Rural 62.00 per cent (55.18 per cent in 2012)

Sahajanwa 58.00 per cent (56.11 per cent in 2012)

Khajani (SC) 51.00 per cent (50.75 per cent in 2012)

Chauri-Chaura 57.50 per cent (53.56 per cent in 2012)

Bansgaon (SC) 50.00 per cent (45.84 per cent in 2012)

Chillupar 55.00 per cent (49.99 per cent in 2012)

Kushinagar (Average 58.08 per cent)

Khadda 62.00 per cent (60.79 per cent in 2012)

Padrauna 61.00 per cent (58.20 per cent in 2012)

Tamkuhi Raj 55.00 per cent (56.56 per cent in 2012)

Fazilnagar 55.00 per cent (55.30 per cent in 2012)

Kushinagar 59.57 per cent (55.43 per cent in 2012)

Hata 58.00 per cent (56.88 per cent in 2012)

Ramkola (SC) 56.00 per cent (54.56 per cent in 2012)

Maharajganj (Average 60.80 per cent)

Pharenda 61.00 per cent (59.99 per cent in 2012)

Nautanwa 60.00 per cent (61.60 per cent in 2012)

Siswa 60.00 per cent (63.00 per cent in 2012)

Maharajganj (SC) 63.00 per cent (61.27 per cent in 2012)

Paniyara 60.00 per cent (58.33 per cent in 2012)

Mau (Average 58.75 per cent)

Madhuban 60.00 per cent (54.34 per cent in 2012)

Ghosi 58.00 per cent (56.59 per cent in 2012)

Muhammadabad Gohna (SC) 58.00 per cent (54.86 per cent in 2012)

Mau 59.00 per cent (58.25 per cent in 2012)