With the end of the polling for the 40 assembly seats in the seventh and last phase of UP assembly elections, the polling has been completed except for one seat –Alapur in ambedkarnagar district.
Polling in Alapur constituency will be held on Thursday. As per the poll schedule announced by the Election Commission on January 4, the polling in alapur was scheduled to be held in the fifth phase of polling on February 27. The polling had to be rescheduled due to the death of the Samajwadi party candidate Chandrasekhar Kashyap, who died due to the heart attack during campaigning after the nomination process had ended.
EC instead of countermanding the election, asked the Samajwadi party to nominate new candidate for Alapur seat and the ruling party decided to field his widow Sangita Choudhury. later the EC rescheduled the election n Alapur on March 9. She is locked in a triangular contest with BJP's Aneeta and Tribhuvan Dutt of the BSP. The sitting SP MlA Bhim Prasad Sonkar had been denied ticket this time.
The seven phase assembly elections in UP were held between February 11 to March 8 and the counting of votes would be held of all the 403 seats on March 11.