UP Election Results 2017 Live

Times Now Live:
Aaajtak Live:

Highlights

Media Agencies	Samajwadi Party	Bahujan Samaj Party
HEADLINES TODAY	195-210	88-98
INDIA TV- C VOTER	137-145	122-130
NEWS24 CHANAKYA	185 (+-18)	85 (+-15)
STAR -AC NEILSON	183	83

Times Now-VMR exit poll predictions:

BJP: 190-210 seats

Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance: 110-130 seats

BSP: 54-74 seats

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NewX-MRC exit poll has projected BJP as the largest party in Uttar Pradesh elections, winning 185 seats.

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Mayawati's BSP is predicted to get 26 per cent of vote share in first phase of UP elections.

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Samajwadi Party and Congress alliance is predicted to get 28 per cent of votes in the first phase of UP elections, according to ABP News, which translates to 20-26 seats approximately.

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ABP News predicts BJP to be winning 32 per cent seats in first phase of Uttar Pradesh elections

Why UP election results could shock BJP

Results of Uttar Pradesh elections may well be quite contrary to the poll bravado used so extensively by Team Modi.

There is a sense of deja vu about how Team Modi has been handling the ongoing UP elections, arguably the political semifinals for Indian politics, before the 2019 finals.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his handpicked president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah and their entire team of the government and the ruling party at the Centre have done it before - not once, but twice before.

Team Modi approached Bihar elections in the last quarter of 2015 in a similar vein. Prior to that, Team Modi had done it in Delhi Assembly polls two years ago.

Modi ensured carpet bombing in campaigning during Assembly polls for Delhi and Bihar and personally led the poll campaign. He lost both elections miserably for different reasons.

He lost Delhi because he underestimated the vast political undercurrent in favour of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which feasted on the Congress' vote share, and also, because he para-trooped a rank outsider, Kiran Bedi, and projected her as the BJP's chief ministerial candidate. She eventually lost even her own seat.