UP Phase-IV Polling today

Voting for 59 assembly constituencies spread across nine districts — Pilibhit, Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Raebareli, Banda and Fatehpur — in Uttar Pradesh will be held on Wednesday, completing round four of the seven-phase elections. After Wednesday’s voting, the next three phases will cover the remaining 172 (43%) seats. A look at the phase-four numbers

LAKHIMPUR Made headlines after four farmers were run over allegedly by a car of Union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni’s son. BJP MLA Yogesh Verma faces SP’s Utkarsh Verma Madhur (2012 winner)

LUCKNOW EAST Traditionally a BJP seat. State minister Ashutosh Tandon ‘Gopal Ji’ (son of Lalji Tandon) vs SP’s Anurag Singh Bhadouriya (party spokesperson) vs INC’s Manoj Tiwari

LUCKNOW CANTT A BJP stronghold. State minister Brajesh Pathak takes on SP’s Surendra Singh Gandhi ‘Raju Gandhi’ (twotime corporator) and BSP’s Anil Pandey

LUCKNOW CENTRAL Fight is between BJP’s Rajnish Kr Gupta and SP’s Ravidas Mehrotra (lost in 2017 by around 5,000 votes and 2012 winner). INC’s Sadaf Jafar is also in the fray

SAROJINI NAGAR BJP candidate Rajeshwar Singh (former ED officer) vs Abhishek Mishra (was a minister in SP govt)

RAEBARELI Considered a Congress turf. BJP candidate Aditi Singh (2017 winner on Congress ticket) vs INC’s Dr Manish Chauhan)

HARCHANDPUR Another Congress seat in Raebareli district. BJP candidate Rakesh Singh (2017 winner on Congress ticket) vs INC’s Surendra Vikram Singh (2012 winner on SP ticket)

HARDOI Naresh Agarwal’s son Nitin who won this seat on SP ticket in 2012 and 2017 is fighting from BJP. He faces SP’s Anil Verma and BSP’s Shobhit Pathak