UP Election 2022 Live Updates: Chief Minister Contests As Voting Begins For 57 UP Seats
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UP Polls Live Updates: Among the key candidates in today's polls is Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting his first assembly poll from his stronghold Gorakhpur. Chandrashekhar Azad has decided to contest the seat.
57 seats in eastern Uttar Pradesh, spread across 10 districts, will go to polls today in the sixth and second-last phase of the 2022 UP election. Among the most prominent candidates is Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting his first assembly poll from Gorakhpur.
With voting for 292 out of the state's 403 assembly seats already over, the focus has shifted to the crucial Purvanchal region of the state, which has 111 seats - more than a quarter of the total.
The BJP had won 46 of the 57 seats in the 2017 polls. There are a total of over 2.14 crore voters in this phase.
The Chief Minister being in the contest this time has spurred expectations of a big victory in all nine assembly seats under the Gorakhpur parliamentary constituency. The Samajwadi Party has pitted the wife of late Upendra Dutt Shukla, a former BJP leader, against the Chief Minister. Azad Samaj Party founder Chandrashekhar Azad is also in fray from the seat.