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Satya Prakash Agarwal Meerut Rafiq Ansari Meerut South Dr. Somendra Tomar Chhaprauli Sahender Singh Ramala Baraut Krishanpal Malik Baghpat Yogesh Dhama Loni Nandkishor Muradnagar Ajit Pal Tyagi Sahibabad Sunil Kumar Sharma Ghaziabad Atul Garg Modi Nagar Dr. Manju Shiwach Dholana Aslam Choudhary Hapur (SC) Vijay Pal Garhmukteshwar Kamal S Malik Noida Pankaj Singh Dadri Tejpal Singh Nagar Jewar Dhirendra Singh Sikandrabad Bimla Singh Solanki Bulandshahr Virendra Singh Sirohi Syana Devendra Anupshahr Sanjay Debai Dr. Anita Lodhi Rajput Shikarpur Anil Kumar Khurja (SC) Vijendra Singh Khair (SC) Anoop Barauli Dalveer Singh Atrauli Sandeep Kumar Singh Chharra Ravendra Pal Singh Koil Anil Parashar Aligarh Sanjeev Raja Iglas (SC) Rajveer Diler Hathras (SC) Hari Shankar Mahor Sadabad Ramveer Upadhyay Sikandra Rao Birendra Singh Rana Chhata Laxmi Narayan Mant Shyam Sunder Sharma Goverdhan Karinda Singh Mathura Shrikant Sharma Baldev (SC) Pooran Prakash Etmadpur Ram Pratap Singh Agra Cantt. (SC) Dr. Girraj Singh Dharmesh Agra South Yogendra Upadhyaya Agra North Jagan Prasad Garg Agra Rural (SC) Hemlata Diwakar Fatehpur Sikri Chau. Udaybhan singh Kheragarh Mahesh Kumar Goyal Fatehabad Jitendra Verma Bah Rani Pakshalika Singh Tundla (SC) Satya Pal Singh Baghel Jasrana Ramgopal Pappu Lodhi Firozabad Manish Asiza Shikohabad Mukesh Verma Sirsaganj Hariom Kasganj Devendra Singh Rajput Amanpur Devendra Pratap Patiyali Mamtesh Aliganj Satyapal Singh Rathaur Etah Vipin Kumar David Marhara Virendra BJP ’ s Saffron Tilak On UP MEET YOUR MLA List of winners in UP Assembly elections 2017 announced after vote counting Jalesar (SC) Sanjeev Kumar Diwakar Mainpuri Rajkumar Bhongaon Ram Naresh Agnihotri Kishani (SC) Brajesh Kumar Karhal Sobaran Singh Yadav Gunnaur Ajeet Kumar Bisauli (SC) Kushagra Sagar Sahaswan Omkar Singh Bilsi Musarrat Radha Krishan Sharma Badaun Mahesh Chandra Gupta Shekhupur Dharmendra S Shakya Dataganj Rajeev Kumar Singh Baheri Chhatra Pal Singh Meerganj Dr. DC Verma Bhojipura Bahoran Lal Maurya Nawabganj Kesar Singh Faridpur (SC) Dr. Shyam Bihari Lal Bithari Rajesh Kumar Mishra Bareilly Dr. Arun Kumar Bareilly Cantt. Rajesh Agarwal Aonla Dharm Pal Singh Pilibhit Sanjay Singh Gangwar Barkhera Kishan Lal Rajpoot Puranpur (SC) Babu Ram Paswan Bisalpur Agyash Ramsaran Verma Katra Veer Vikram Singh Jalalabad Neeraj Kushawaha Tilhar Roshan Lal Verma Powayan (SC) Chetram Shahjahanpur Suresh Kumar Khanna Dadraul Manvendra Singh Palia Harvinder Sahani Nighasan Patel Ramkumar Verma Gola Arvind Giri Sri Nagar (SC) Manju Tyagi Dhaurahra SAwasthi Bala Prasad Lakhimpur Yogesh Verma Kasta (SC) Saurabh Singh Mohammdi Lokendra Pratap Singh Maholi Shashank Trivedi Sitapur Rakesh Rathore Hargaon (SC) Suresh Rahi Laharpur Suneel Verma Biswan Mahendra Singh Sevata Gyan Tiwari Mahmoodabad Narendra Singh Verma Sidhauli (SC) Hargovind Bhargava Misrikh (SC) Ram Krishna Bhargava Sawaijpur K Madhvendra Pratap Shahabad Rajani Tiwari Hardoi Nitin Agarwal Gopamau (SC) Shyam Prakash Sandi (SC) Prabhash Kumar Bilgram Ashish Kumar Singh Balamau (SC) Ram Pal Verma Sandila Raj Kumar Agrawal Bangermau Kuldeep Singh Sengar Safipur (SC) Bamba Lal Mohan (SC) Brijesh Kumar Unnao Pankaj Gupta Bhagwantnagar Hriday Narayan Dikshit Purwa Anil Singh Malihabad (SC) Jai Devi BKT Avinash Trivedi Sarojini Nagar Swati Singh Lucknow West Suresh Kumar Shrivastav Lucknow North Dr. Neeraj Bora Lucknow East Ashutosh Tandon Lucknow Central Brijesh Pathak Lucknow Cantt. Rita Bahuguna Joshi Mohanlalganj Ambrish Singh Pushkar Bachhrawan Ram Naresh Rawat Tiloi Mayankeshwar Sharan Harchandpur Rakesh Singh Rae Bareli Aditi Singh Salon (SC) Dal Bahadur Sareni Dhirendra Bahadur Singh Unchahar Manoj Kumar Pandey Jagdishpur (SC) Suresh Kumar Gauriganj Rakesh Pratap Singh Amethi Garima Singh Isauli Abrar Ahmad Sultanpur Surya Bhan Singh Sadar Sitaram Lambhua Deomani Dwivedi Kadipur (SC) Rajesh Gautam Kaimganj Amar Singh/ BJP. 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Saurabh Srivastava Sevapuri Neel Ratan Singh patel Bhadohi Ravindra Nath Tripathi Gyanpur Vijay Mishra Aurai Dinanath Bhaskar Chhanbey Rahul Prakash Mirzapur Ratnakar Mishr Majhawan Shuchismita Maurya Chunar Anurag Singh Marihan Rama Shankar Singh Ghorawal Anil Kumar maurya Robertsganj Bhupesh Chaubey Obra (ST) Sanjiv Kumar Duddhi (ST) Har Iram Only four of UP’s 21 CMs have served full terms — the first two and the last two. The state has been put under central rule nine times Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sucheta Kripalani, C B Gupta, Bir Bahadur Singh, Kamalapati Tripathi, V P Singh, H N Bahuguna, Sripati Mishra Akhilesh Yadav & Mayawati G B Pant (1947-54) & Sampurnanand (1954-60) Twice (2 CMs) Twice (2 CMs) Jagdambika Pal INC (Feb 21, 1998 to Feb 23, 1998) Only 2 days 2 CMs + 4 times central rule Chandra Bhanu Gupta INC (March 14, 1967 to April 3, 1967) Less than 3 months 3 CMs + central rule twice 3 to 6 months Tribhuvana Narayana Singh, Kalyan Singh, Mayawati 5 CMs + central rule once 6 months to 1 year Charan Singh (twice), Mayawati, C B Gupta, Ram Prakash Gupta, Banarsi Das 2 to 4 years Full term: 5 years More than 5 years SHORTEST TO LONGEST TERM OF CMs 8 CMs 1 to 2 years 6 CMs + central rule twice Kalyan Singh (twice), Ram Naresh Yadav, MSY (twice), N D Tiwari (thrice), Rajnath Singh, Mayawati From east to west, saffron spread storms the regional bastions Swati.Mathur@timesgroup.com I f UP polls have tradition- ally been tough to call, the March 11 results have churned up numbers that have left many scratching their heads in wonder. A state where relatively minor changes in vote shares typically trans- lates into huge shifts in seats saw the BJP decisively sweep West UP, Bundelkhand, Central UP and East UP almost equally. While the BJP won 107 of 136 in West UP, it swept all 19 seats in Bundelkhand, 64 seats in Central UP and over 100 seats in East UP. West UP, which comprises 136 seats, and is traditionally regard- ed as BSP’s stronghold saw its fortress invaded despite playing the trusty Dalit-Muslim card and fielding a historic 99 muslim can- didates. While Agra, ‘behenji’s most densely populated Dalit belt crumbled completely in the BJP wave, BSP has managed to hold on to only three seats in West UP- Dhaulana, RLD stronghold of Mant, and Sadabad in Hath- ras. The SP, which has tradition- ally been weak in this region, has also been further decimated. The SP, on the other hand, was hop- ing to ride Congress’ coat-tails to victory in West UP. With Imran Masood as their chief strategist, the party won only two seats, Behat and Saharanpur, but lost Masood’s own Nakur to BJP. The collective rout of the BSP and the SP-Congress alli- ance also spread to the other re- gions. In Bundelkhand, another SP-BSP bastion, the Samajwadi Party was hoping to register a win on the back of chief minis- ter Akhilesh Yadav’s ghee balm -- the Bundelkhand food packets to drought-hit farmers. None of the sops worked, though, and even though the opposition tried to drum up controversy over the empty water train that chugged into UP some months ago, it’s the SP and the BSP that have had to return empty handed from the Bundelkhand belt. In Central UP Lucknow re- gion, where Akhilesh won a his- toric mandate the state capital when he first stormed into UP assembly in 2012, the SP and BSP have been rooted out completely. The Congress too has been rout- ed in Amethi, but gained two in Rae Bareli, handing over six as- sembly segments in the Gandhi bastion to the BJP for the first time. While the BJP remained in a contest on almost all con- stituencies in UP, Gauriganj in Amethi was the only exception to the rule. Here, Union minister Smriti Irani pick Uma Shankar Pandey ended in the fourth place after a massive rebellion within the BJP. This was triggered by Irani’s decision to elbow out RSS oldtimer Tejbhan Singh in order to accommodate Pandey in the ticket distribution. The BJP’s loss, though, has been SP’s gain in Gauriganj and neighbouring Unchahar. The BJP march has also invaded the SP strongold of Kannauj. Here, the SP could only retain one of five seats. Etawah and Mainpuri, too, have not re- mained impregnable fortresses of the SP. if only symbolically, the BJP won the Etawah seat de- feating the SP candidate by over 19,000 votes. Last, but not the least, was the East UP region, which Akhilesh had swept al- most entirely in 2012. This time, this belt stands nearly saffron- ised, with the Congress wiped out in all but one seat in Kushi- nagar’s Tamkuhi Raj, and all constituencies barring one in Mulayam Singh’s Azamgarh. As has been the case in previ- ous elections, small caste shifts appear to have swung the votes in favour of the BJP. While the regional staraps have retained their vote shares -- BSP is 22.2% and SP 21.8% -- the Congress has ended with a 6.2% voteshare. In comparison, the BJP has won a whopping 39.7% vote share in UP. In 2007, BSP won just over 30% votes, and SP a little over 26%. BJP had 17%, while Con- gress about 8.5%. Five years later SP raised its tally by barely 3 per- centage points. Its tally of seats went from 97 to 224. BSP’s vote share in 2012 was four-and-a-half percentage points lower than in 2007. Its seats crashed from 206 to 80. Fast forward two years to 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the scenario had changed dramati- cally. The BJP's vote share of 42.6% was enough to give it 71 of the state's 80 seats. That's almost 90% of seats. BJP’s 312 out of 403 meant it led in more than eight out of every 10 segments.The SP was reduced to just 42 assembly segment leads and the BSP to a dismal nine leads. 2012 Dance Of Democracy 2017 UTTAR PRADESH ASSEMBLY POLLS 10 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, LUCKNOW MARCH 12, 2017 BJP+ SP BSP Cong RLD Others The UP map was tiled red all over in the 2012 assembly elections with Samajwadi Party winning an unprecedented mandate. In 2017, after a colourful war of words and record polling, saffron was the colour that blurred all lines and turned the entire state into the domain of the BJP 1 BJP bettered the rate of conversion of votes to seats achieved by SP in 2012 and was nearly four times as good as SP now 2 3 4 SP conversion rate was better than BSP’s though the latter won more votes than Akhilesh’s party A 17 percentage point gap in a three- cornered race was a bridge too far for SP and BSP to span Smaller parties and independents simply got reduced to the margins, unusually for an assembly poll Alliance Seats won for every % of votes (Seats won/ Vote share) VOTE’S WORTH 2012 2017 SP BJP BSP Cong 1.90 0.77 0.78 0.60 BJP SP Cong BSP 2.15 1.12 0.85 2012 Seat Share SP 224 BSP 80 BJP 47 CONG 28 OTH 24 2017 Seat Share BJP+ 325 SP 47 BSP 19 CONG 7 OTH 9 BJP’s strike rate of 81% was not only way ahead of its main rivals, it was much higher than what the SP achieved in 2012 or BSP in 2007, when they won the assembly polls Seats Won/Seats Contested 2012 vs 2017 STRIKE RATE BSP SP BJP 81% (312/384) 11.8% 15% (47/311) 55.9% 2012 5% (19/403) 19.9% 2017 Cong 7.9% 6% (7/114) VOTE SHARE (%) SP BSP BJP Cong Oth 2012 2017 2012 2017 2012 2017 2012 2017 2012 2017 29.1 25.9 15 11.7 18.3 21.8 22.2 39.7 6.2 7.2 The people may not have appreciated my expressway and voted for bullet train instead AKHILESH YADAV Total Seats 403 7.87