The Election Commission of India (ECI) will issue notification for the first phase of biennial election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on Friday. The ECI will hold elections for 36 seats from 35 local authorities' constituencies on March 3 and 7.
The present tenure of the members of these 36 seats of the Legislative Council would be expiring on March 7.
Members of gram panchayat and other local bodies, MLAs, MLCs and MPs would vote in the council polls.
The notification for phase one of the biennial polls for 30 seats would be issued on Friday. The last date for filing of nominations will be February 11, scrutiny of papers will be done on February 14 and the last date for withdrawal of papers will be February 16. The polling for the first phase will be held on March 3. The notification for the second phase of polls for six seats would be issued on February 10.
The counting of votes for both phases will be taken up on March 12.At present all 36 seats have Samajwadi Party representatives.
The seats for which polling will be held in the first phase are Moradabad-Bijnor local authorities, Rampur-Bareilly local authorities, Budaun local authorities, Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur local authorities, Hardoi local authorities, Kheri local authorities, Sitapur local authorities, Lucknow-Unnao local authorities, Rae Bareli local authorities, Pratagarh local authorities, Sultanpur local authorities, Barabanki local authorities, Bahraich local authorities, Azamgarh-Mau local authorities, Ghazipur local authorities, Jaunpur local authorities, Varanasi local authorities, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra local authorities, Allahabad local authorities, Banda-Hamirpur local authorities, Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur local authorities, Kanpur-Fatehpur local authorities, Etawah-Farrukhabad local authorities, Agra-Firozabad local authorities, Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri local authorities ( two seats), Aligarh local authorities, Bulandshahr local authorities, Meerut-Ghaziabad local authorities and Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur local authorities.