Uttar Pradesh:
Final Results |
Party |
Leads |
Wins |
Total |
SP |
0 |
224 |
224 |
BSP |
1 |
79 |
80 |
BJP |
0 |
47 |
47 |
Congress+ |
0 |
38 |
38 |
Others |
0 |
14 |
14 |
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|
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Majority |
202 |
Total |
403/403 |
Lucknow:
Riding an anti-incumbency wave, the Samajwadi Party on Tuesday
stormed to power in Uttar Pradesh dislodging Mayawati.
The SP announced that party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav would be the
Chief Minister.
The Mulayam Singh-led SP knocked out the Bahujan Samaj Party by
winning 224 seats and leading in the 403-member House. The ruling
party was reduced to 80 seats from the 206 it had in the outgoing
House. The SP had won 97 seats in the 2007 elections.
The BJP meanwhile barely managed to repeat its 2007 performance. It
has won 47 seats. It had won 51 seats in
2007 elections.
Equally dismal was the performance of Congress, which sought to
make big strides with spirited campaign by Rahul Gandhi, winning
only 28 seats. The party had won 22 seats in
the last elections. Congress, which tied up with the Rashtriya Lok
Dal (RLD), trailed a sorry fourth with a combined tally of 38
seats.
As pundits and voters alike tried to make sense of the scenario,
all were agreed that this electoral battle had left the Congress
badly bruised and the famed Gandhi charisma in serious question.
In a major setback, the Congress lost all the seats in Rae Bareli, represented in the
Lok Sabha by party president Sonia Gandhi.
Four of the seats in Rae Bareli were bagged by the Samajwadi Party
while the fifth went to the Peace Party, the Election Commission
sources said.
In the five-seat Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, represented by
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the Congress could win
three seats, while SP took two.
Also, in a personal setback to Union
Minister Salman Khurshid whose comments on Muslim reservation and
Batla House encouter created controversies, Louis Khurshid, his
wife, lost from
the Farukkhabad assembly seat.
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