UP Bypoll Results 2020: BJP gains lead on 6 seats, SP on 1

The ruling BJP under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is set to retain six seats out of seven seats that went for bypolls in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh Yadav's SP is leading on one seat.

Usha Sirohi of BJP was leading in Bulandshahr, Prem Pal Dhangar in Tundla, Shrikant Katiyar in Bangarmau, Satya Prakash Mani Tripathi in Deoria, Upendra Nath Paswan in Ghatampur and Sangeeta Chauhan in Naugawan Sadat.

Only seat seems to be going to SP's way. In Malhani, SP's Lucky Yadav was ahead of independent candidate Dhananjay Singh by 3,029 votes. The seat was earlier held by SP's Parasnath Yadav.


A tough contest was on for the Naugawan Sadat seat held earlier by Chetan Chauhan, the former cricketer who was minister in Yogi Adityanath's BJP government. SP's Javed Abbas was trailing there by 1,862 votes to his BJP rival Sangeeta Chauhan.

In Bulandshahr, BJP's Usha Sirohi was leading by 9,841 votes over Bahujan Samaj Party's Mohammed Yunus.

In Tundla, BJP's Prempal Singh Dhanghar was ahead of SP's Mahraj Singh Dhangar by 4,945 votes.

BJP's Shrikant Katiyar was leading by 12,978 votes over Arti Bajpai of the Congress in Bangarmau.

In Ghatampur, BJP's Upendra Nath Paswan was leading by 3,618 votes over the BSP's Kuldeep Shankhwar. In Deoria, BJP's Satyaprakash Mani Tripathi had a lead of 5,443 over SP's Brahma Shankar Tripathi.

The bypolls for the seven UP seats recorded a voter turnout of 53 per cent on November 3, when 88 candidates were in the fray.

Barring Malhani, which was with the Samajwadi Party, the other seats were earlier held by the BJP.

The Naugaon Sadat seat fell vacant after the death of state minister and former cricketer Chauhan. The Ghatampur bypoll in Kanpur Nagar district was necessitated due to the death of state minister Varun. Both the ministers died of COVID-19.

The Tundla seat fell vacant after its MLA, S P Singh Baghel, was elected to the Lok Sabha, while the Bangarmau seat in Unnao fell vacant after the conviction of BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a rape case.

The BJP had dumped Sengar soon after his involvement in the case was alleged.

The bypolls to the Bulandshahr, Deoria and Malhani seats were necessitated due to the deaths of sitting MLAs Virendra Singh Sirohi, Janmejay Singh and Parasnath Yadav (SP) respectively.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Aazad's Azad Samaj Party has fielded Mohammad Yameen from Bulandshahr to test its electoral popularity.

The Bulandshahr seat has the highest number of 18 candidates while Ghatampur seat has the lowest of six. Sixteen candidates are in the fray in Malhani, 14 each in Naugaon Sadat and Deoria, 10 each in Bangarmau and Tundla.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the BJP of indulging in "rigging, fraud and whatever it could through the administration to win the elections".

(Inputs from PTI)