UP MLC results: SP scores wins in 5 seats including Varanasi, Agra

Samajwadi Party (SP) won five of the 11 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections, including the Varanasi Teachers’ and Agra-Aligarh Teachers’ constituencies, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured six seats.

The results gave the SP wins in several key constituencies, including Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency, and dealt a setback to the BJP in a contest that saw both sides trade allegations of electoral malpractice.

The SP also won the Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ seat, while party leader Kanti Singh defeated BJP’s Avnish Kumar Singh in the Lucknow Graduates’ constituency. The party’s Lal Bihari Yadav won the Varanasi Teachers’ seat.


The BJP retained the Bareilly-Moradabad seat through Hari Singh Dhillon and won both Meerut constituencies, with Dinesh Kumar Goyal winning the Teachers’ seat and Chand Sharma the Graduates’ seat. The party also won the Lucknow Teachers’ constituency.

Reacting to the results, Congress leader Ajay Rai said the BJP had been “completely cornered” in Uttar Pradesh. He alleged that Modi’s 2024 Lok Sabha victory in Varanasi had been secured through “malpractice and theft”.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav also accused the BJP of electoral malpractice and administrative manipulation in Gorakhpur and Varanasi. He said the opposition’s PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) alliance had dealt a blow to the ruling party and described the outcome in Gorakhpur as a moral defeat for the BJP.

The elections covered 11 seats across five Graduates’ and six Teachers’ constituencies.

(With inputs from ANI)