Lucknow: Though the ruling BJP swept the Uttar Pradesh native physique polls successful all 17 mayor seats and bagging greater than 50 per cent of the corporator seats, the elections noticed the AIMIM and the AAP making recent inroads into state politics. While the 2 events didn’t win any mayor’s seat, 19 candidates of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) received as corporators, and eight Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates additionally grew to become corporators.
The AAP and AIMIM received three seats every for the submit of chairperson of Nagar Palika Parishads within the state. As many as 33 AIMIM candidates have been elected as members of Nagar Palika Parishads, whereas 30 candidates of the AAP additionally registered wins for a similar submit. Six AAP candidates and one AIMIM candidate received the election for the submit of Nagar Panchayat chairpersons.
In the election held to the submit of Nagar Panchayat members, 61 AAP candidates emerged victorious, and 23 AIMIM candidates tasted success.
According to the State Election Commission (SEC), the overall seats received by the AAP and AIMIM is 108 and 80 respectively.
The complete vote share of AAP and AIMIM (after bearing in mind all of the posts) within the city native our bodies’ elections stood at 1.63 per cent and 1.62 per cent respectively, the SEC mentioned.
Hailing the efficiency of AAP candidates, celebration chief Shekhar Dixit, who extensively campaigned within the state, informed PTI, “The celebration registered a major win for the submit of chairman of
Nagar Palika Parishad in Rampur, the place celebration’s candidate Sana Khanam secured a win by bagging 43,121 votes. BJP’s Masarat Mujeeb was the runner-up with 32,173 votes and SP’s Fatma Jabi got here third with 16,273 votes.”
Dixit mentioned the AAP has grow to be a “viable alternative” to the BJP.
“People have started drifting away from the Samajwadi Party and are seeing a viable alternative (to the BJP) in AAP. If anybody is doing the job of an opposition party in the country, it is eithe Rahul Gandhi of the Congress or the AAP duo of Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh.”
National spokesperson of AIMIM Syed Asim Waqar mentioned the celebration is compiling the small print of the successful candidates.
On being requested the potential causes behind the celebration’s efficiency within the present polls, Waqar informed PTI, “Voters are very clever. Earlier there was a scarcity of training. But in the present day, there’s a B Tech certified individual or an MBA move out just about in each family.
“When the level of education improves, there is a visible change in the way of thinking. The voters know who will stand for them and for their rights,” he mentioned.
In the two-phase city native physique elections, voting was additionally held to elect 198 chairpersons and 5,260 members of nagar palika parishads, 542 chairpersons of nagar panchayats and seven,104 members of nagar panchayats.
In all, 162 public representatives have been elected unopposed, whereas there have been as many as 83,378 candidates within the ballot fray for 14,522 posts.
In the city native physique elections, 53 per cent of voters exercised their franchise within the second part masking 38 districts on May 11, whereas the voter turnout within the first part on May 4 was 52 per cent masking 37 districts of the state.
According to the SEC, 4.32 crore individuals have been eligible to solid their votes within the city native physique polls. In 2017, the polls have been held in three phases and the general polling proportion was 53 per cent.
