UP municipal election results 2023: List of winning mayor candidates

The counting of votes is underway for the May 4 and 11 election.

Updated on: May 13, 2023, 17:58:24 IST

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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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