Polling held for five legislative council seats

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Polling held for five legislative council seats

Tuesday, 31 January 2023 | PNS | Lucknow

Voting for five legislative council seats -- three graduates and two teachers' constituencies – was completed on Monday.

Polling for the biennial election in 39 districts of the state ended at 4 pm and counting of votes will be taken up on February 2, the chief electoral officer said.

The districts where polling too place were Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Fatehpur, Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat, Unnao, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Budaun, Rampur, Moradabad, Amroha, Bijnor, Sambhal, Bahraich, Shravasti, Gonda, Balrampur, Basti, Siddharth Nagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Deoria, Kushinagar, Azamgarh, Mau, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Amethi and Ambedkar Nagar.

A total of 6.32 lakh people were  eligible to vote in the three graduate constituencies -- Gorakhpur- Faizabad, Kanpur and Bareilly-Moradabad -- and out of them 3.93 lakh were men and 2.39 lakh women. As many as 5,392 people were eligible to vote in two teachers' constituencies -- Allahabad-Jhansi and Kanpur -- and out of them 3,505 were men and 1,887 women.

One observer each was deployed in every constituency by the Election Commission of India. Besides them, 594 sector magistrates and 234 zonal magistrates were also deployed. Micro-observers were deputed in all the booths and videography of polling was also done. A total of 4,941 polling personnel were deployed to complete the election process.

Additional Chief Electoral Officer Ratnesh Singh said that the term of elected members of three graduates constituencies -- Devendra Pratap Singh from Gorakhpur-Faizabad, Arun Pathak from Kanpur and Dr Jai Pal Singh from Bareilly-Moradabad -- and two from teachers' constituencies -- Suresh Kumar Tripathi from Jhansi and Rajbahadur Singh Chandel from Kanpur – was coming to an end on February 12.

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