All the 12 candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party were declared elected unopposed in the UP Legislative Council biennial polls here on Thursday.
The announcement was made after the end of the time of withdrawal of nominations.
Most of the candidates or their representatives were present to receive the certificate.
Earlier on Tuesday, during the scrutiny of the nomination, the papers of independent candidate Mahesh Chandra Sharma, who was the 13th candidate, was rejected on technical grounds.
Mahesh Chandra Sharma of Kanpur had filed his papers on the last day of filing of nomination on Monday but he did not have proposers along with the fee receipt as per the norms.
The 10 BJP candidates declared elected are Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh, Laxman Acharya along with bureaucrat-turned-politician AK Sharma who joined the party a couple of days back.
The other BJP candidates declared elected are Kunwar Manvendra Singh, Gopal Narain Shukla, Salil Bishnoi, Ashwini Tyagi, Dr Dharamveer Prajapati and Surendra Choudhury.
Two SP candidates elected unopposed are Ahmed Hasan and Rajendra Choudhury.
Hasan is the leader of the opposition in the Council.
Even after these results, the opposition continues to hold a majority in the Council with 51 members while the ruling BJP's strength has gone up to 32.
The total strength of the Legislative Council is 100.
The strength of the Bahujan Samaj Party has come down to six.
Among the outgoing members, six are of SP, two of BSP, three of BJP and one disqualified member. These members will retire on January 30 and thereafter the newly-elected members will take the oath.
The present Chairman of the Legislative Council, Ramesh Yadav, who is a SP member, will also retire.
The members whose tenure will expire are Dinesh Sharma, Swatantra Dev Singh and Laxman Acharya of BJP, Naseemuddin Siddiqui (disqualified), Dharamveer Ashok, Pradeep Jatav, both of BSP, Ahmed Hasan, Ashu Mallick, Ramesh Yadav (Chairman of the House), Ram Jatan Rajbhar, Virendra Singh and Sahib Singh Saini, all of SP.