The counting of votes for the May 4 and 11 Uttar Pradesh civic body polls that were held for 14,684 posts, including 17 mayors, began at 8 am on Saturday and is currently underway.
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The ruling BJP, which won 14 out of 16 mayor seats in the 2017 elections, looks set to sweep the recently-held polls, with party candidates winning/leading in 16 out of 17 mayor posts that were at stake. Agra is the only municipal corporation where another party, the BSP, is ahead; two BSP mayors were elected in 2017 .
The SP and Congress, on the other hand, look set to draw a blank for a second straight election.
Here's the list of leading/trailing candidates in 2023 (counting underway on majority of seats):
| S No. | Municipal Corporation | Winner | Runner-up | Counting status |
| 1. | Agra | Hemlata Kushwah (BJP) | Lata Valmiki (BSP) | Result declared |
| 2. | Aligarh | Prashant Singhal (BJP) | Zamirullah | Result declared |
| 3. | Ayodhya | Girishpati Tripathi (BJP) | Ashish Pandey ‘Deepu’ (SP) | Result declared |
| 4. | Bareilly | Umesh Gautam (BJP) | IS Tomar (SP-backed) | Result declared |
| 5. | Firozabad | Kamini Rathore (BJP) | Masroor Fatima (SP) | Result declared |
| 6. | Ghaziabad | Sunita Dayal (BJP) | Nisara Khan (BSP) | Result declared |
| 7. | Gorakhpur | Dr Mangalesh (BJP) | Kajal Nishad (SP) | Underway |
| 8. | Jhansi | Biharilal Arya (BJP) | Arvind Kumar Bablu (Congress) | Result declared |
| 9. | Kanpur | Pramila Pandey (BJP) | Vandana Bajpai (SP) | Result declared |
| 10. | Lucknow | Sushma Kharkwal (BJP) | Vandana Mishra (SP) | Result declared |
| 11. | Mathura | Vinod Agarwal (BJP) | Raja Mohtasim Ahmed (BSP) | Result declared |
| 12. | Meerut | Harikant Ahluwalia (BJP) | Anas AIMIM | Underway |
| 13. | Moradabad | Vinod Agarwal (BJP) | Md Rizwan (Congress) | Result declared |
| 14. | Prayagraj | Ganesh Kesarwani (BJP) | Ajay Kumar Srivastava (SP) | Result declared |
| 15. | Saharanpur | Dr Ajay Kumar Singh (BJP) | Khadija Masood (BSP) | Result declared |
| 16. | Shahjahanpur | Archana Verma (BJP) | Nikhat Iqbal (Congress) | Result declared |
| 17. | Varanasi | Ashok Tiwari (BJP) | Anil Srivastava (Congress) | Underway |
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