Lucknow: Samajwadi Party’s Maan Singh Yadav recorded the highest victory margin among the 11 constituencies in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council biennial elections, defeating BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rathore by 27,663 votes in the Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ constituency, according to the final results released by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday. Yadav secured 60,358 votes against Rathore’s 32,695.Interestingly, SP candidates occupied the top two positions in terms of victory margins, while the BJP secured the third position.SP’s Ashutosh Sinha recorded the second-highest victory margin, defeating BJP’s Kedarnath Singh by 19,932 votes in the Varanasi Graduates’ constituency. Sinha secured 55,046 votes against Singh’s 35,114.BJP’s Hari Singh Dhillon recorded the third-highest victory margin and the largest among the six Teachers’ constituencies. He defeated SP’s Haji Danish Akhtar by 17,676 votes in the Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ constituency, securing 21,672 votes against his rival’s 3,996.SP’s Kanti Singh followed with the fourth-highest margin, defeating BJP’s Avneesh Kumar Singh by 17,127 votes in the Lucknow Graduates’ constituency. Kanti Singh secured 56,905 votes against Avneesh Singh’s 39,778.BJP’s Manvendra Pratap Singh recorded the fifth-highest margin, winning the Agra Graduates’ constituency by 15,009 votes. He secured 42,743 votes against SP candidate Shashank Yadav alias Sheetu, who polled 27,734.In the Meerut Teachers’ constituency, BJP’s Shrichand Sharma defeated SP’s Nitin Tomar by 13,241 votes. Sharma received 18,099 votes against Tomar’s 4,858, recording the sixth-highest victory margin.BJP’s Dinesh Kumar Goyal followed with a margin of 12,856 votes in the Meerut Graduates’ constituency. Goyal secured 24,929 votes against SP candidate Pramendra Singh Bhati’s 12,073.Among the remaining four constituencies, SP’s Lal Bihari Yadav won the Varanasi Teachers’ seat by 5,015 votes, securing 11,612 votes against BJP candidate Pramod Kumar Mishra’s 6,597.BJP’s Umesh Dwivedi defeated SP’s Sushil Kumar by 4,808 votes in the Lucknow Teachers’ constituency, securing 13,179 votes against Kumar’s 8,371, while SP’s Akash Agarwal won the Agra Teachers’ constituency by 4,263 votes, securing 14,046 votes against BJP’s Hari Kishore Tiwari, who polled 9,783 votes.The closest contest was in the Gorakhpur-Faizabad Teachers’ constituency, where BJP’s Dhruv Kumar Tripathi defeated Independent candidate Rajiv Yadav by 2,210 votes. Tripathi secured 16,790 votes against Yadav’s 14,580.
