UP Election Phase 6 Voting: 8.69% polling till 9 am on 57 assembly seats across 10 districts

The polling for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections began on Thursday. The voting began at 7 am today and will continue till 6 pm. Among the early voters was CM Yogi Adityanath, who cast his vote at Primary School Gorakhnath Kanya Nagar Kshetra, in Gorakhpur. Polling is being held for 57 Assembly constituencies spread across 10 districts including Gorakhpur, Ambedkarnagar, Ballia, Balrampur, Basti, Deoria, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar and Siddharthnagar. Prominent among the 676 candidates in the fray in this phase are Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting his first assembly election, state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu (Tamkuhi Raj), Swami Prasad Maurya, who quit as minister to join the Samajwadi Party (Fazilnagar), and Leader of Opposition in the state assembly and senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Govind Chaudhary (Bansdih). There are a total of over 2.14 crore voters in this phase.

UP Election Phase 6 Voting: Nishad Party founder, Sanjay Nishad casts his vote in Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur | Nishad Party founder, Sanjay Nishad casts his vote in the sixth phase of #UttarPradeshElections2022

“Is baar 300 paar (we’ll win over 300 seats),” says MLC Sanjay Nishad who is in alliance with BJP pic.twitter.com/nBZUoq8dII

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 3, 2022

UP Election Phase 6 Voting: District-wise polling till 9 am

UP records 8.69 per cent voting till 9 am