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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election: Phase 1 witnesses over 57% voter turnout

In the 2017 election, BJP won 53 out of the total 58 seats in the region, with Bahujan Samajwadi Party and Samajwadi Party taking two seats each

Avani Acharya

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election: Phase 1 witnesses over 57% voter turnout
A woman voter shows her inked finger after casting her vote at a polling station at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh state of India during the first phase of Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections on Feb. 10, 2022. Photographs and Video by: Rajeev Bhatt

In the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on Thursday, 58 of the 403 UP Assembly constituencies went to polls and 57.79 percent of voting was recorded till 5 pm.

A woman voter casting her vote at a polling station at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh state of India during the first phase of Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections on February 10, 2022. Photographs and Video by: Rajeev Bhatt
Video by: Rajeev Bhatt

The major districts included in the first phase are Mathura, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Hapur, Shamli, Baghpat, Aligarh, Agra, and Gautam Buddha Nagar.