Uttar Pradesh first phase polling: See date, polling time, constituencies

Polling will take place February 10, Thursday, for 58 assembly constituencies spread across 11 districts in western Uttar Pradesh.

First phase polling for the 58 seats, of which nine are reserved, will be held between 7 am and 6 pm. The districts where the elections will be held are Shamli, Hapur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura and Agra. There are a total of 403 seats in the state.




Campaigning for the first phase remained confined to the virtual medium due to a ban on road shows and physical rallies by the Election Commission due to an increase in Covid cases across the country.

The first phase will cover the Jat-dominated belt of western UP. As many as 623 candidates are in the fray in the first phase. The first phase of polling will also decide the fate of nine ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government.

The ministers whose electoral fate will be decided in the first phase are : Suresh Rana, Atul Garg, Shrikant Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Anil Sharma, Kapil Dev Agarwal, Dinesh Khatik, Dr G S Dharmesh and Chaudhary Laxmi Narain.

Though the main contest in the first phase is between the BJP and the SP-RLD, the BSP too has its influence in some seats. Last time, the BJP bagged 53 of the 58 seats while the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan samaj party got two seats each. One seat went to the Rashtriya Lok Dal.