Election Result 2022: BJP ahead in UP, Uttarakhand, AAP leads in Punjab

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New Delhi, March 10, 2022: Counting has begun in five states - Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. Early trends show Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leading in UP, Uttarakhand, while Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is leading in Punjab.  

The elections occurred in 690 assembly constituencies in these five states and the parties, including BJP, AAP, Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP), will soon know about their fate.

Amongst these five states, BJP holds power in four States including Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Goa and Uttarkhand. Further, there is a Congress government in Punjab. In the 403-member Uttar Pradesh assembly, the majority mark is 202 and the exit polls predicted that the BJP is poised to comfortably return to power with its allies for an unprecedented second term with most of them stating that the party’s tally would be less than that in 2017 elections when it had scored a landslide victory. The Samajwadi Party (SP), which fought the polls with RLD and some other parties, would improve its performance, the exit polls predicted.