Election Results 2022 Live Updates: Postal ballots out, BJP ahead in UP, Uttarakhand, Manipur; AAP leads in Punjab
Uttar Pradesh (UP), Uttarakhand (UK), Manipur, Goa, Punjab Election Results 2022 Live Updates: The counting of votes for the 690 seats spread across five states started at 8 am. As the results to the five-state Assembly polls start rolling in, all eyes will be fixed on the dead-heat race in Uttarakhand and Goa, where the both the BJP and the Congress are fighting out a fierce battle, according to the exit polls. While most pollsters believe it to be an easy ride for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, Punjab is expected to offer an unexpected change in power in the form of AAP.
The elections to the five states — Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur — had kicked off on February 10, with Punjab and Manipur going to the polls at a later date. While the seven-phase UP polls ended on March 7, the Manipur elections were held in two phases — on February 28 and March 5. Punjab went to the polls on February 20, whereas the election in Uttarakhand and Goa were conducted on February 14.
In Uttar Pradesh, the parties to look out for today are the ruling BJP, Samajwadi Party, Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party. In Punjab, the battle is among Congress, BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal, Aam Aadmi Party and the newly formed Sanyukt Sangharsh Party, which was helmed by farmers at the forefront of the protest against the now-withdrawn contentious farm laws, and ex-CM Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress. Goa, too, saw a multi-cornered contest with the BJP, Trinamool Congress, AAP and Congress in fray. In Manipur, BJP is pitted against the Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance comprising the Congress, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party and Janata Dal (Secular). Uttarakhand mainly witnessed a fight between BJP and Congress, even as a new player, AAP, joined the fray this time.
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