UP Election 2022: No incident of violence during polling, says state's chief electoral officer

Around 2.06 crore voters turned up to cast their votes till 5pm for the third phase of UP Assembly elections. Wherever we got complaints, EVMs & VVPATs were replaced immediately. There was no incident of violence: Ajay Kumar Shukla, chief electoral officer, UP

A BJP worker was shot at near polling station in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri. The accused who has been identified as a Samajwadi Party worker is under custody. 

Uttar Pradeesh records 57.44 per cent voter turnout till 5pm. 

Reports of stone pelting on BJP candidate's cavalcade in Barigon, Rasoolabad, Kanpur Dehat have emerged. Heavy police contingent rushed to the spot.

A polling officer was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya. His body was recovered from Janispur near a small canal around 2pm.

He has been identified as Dinesh Kumar and was on the duty at Haloua in Dibiyapur. 

Police are investigating the death.

Hathras Average 50.15%

Firozabad Average 51.23%

Kasganj Average 50.75%

Etah Average 53.23%

Manpuri Average 52.44%

Farrukhabad Average 46.19%

Kannauj Average 50.23%

Etawah Average 50.42%

Auraiya Average 48.30%

Kanpur Dehat Average 47.13%

Kanpur Nagar Average 41.15%

Jalaun Average 46.87%

Jhansi Average 48.52%

Lalitpur Average 59.13%

Hamirpur Average 50.74%

Mahoba Average 51.72%

Grand Average 48.81%

Amongst the 19 assembly constituencies going for polls in five districts of Etah, Mainpuri, Hathras, Kasganj and Firozabad, maximum polling percentage was recorded at Karhal which has registered 56.02 per cent voter turnout so far. 

SP leader Akhilesh Yadav is candidate from the high-profile seat of Karhal, located in Mainpuri district.

Uttar Pradesh has registered a voter turnout of 48.81 per cent till 3pm.

Restrictions have been imposed on BJP candidate from Kidwai Nagar, Mahesh Trivedi. 

This came as he was moving with 10 vehicles in his convoy than the permissible three cars. Police officials also had heated arguments with Trivedi over the issue. He was told he would not be allowed to run three vehicles.

Some of his supporters have been taken into custody, said a police official who did not wished to be named.

The polling has been affected in booth number 236 in Uttar Pradesh's Babina town after the EVM stopped working, people familiar with the development said on Sunday.

Voter turnout has been recorded at 35.88 per cent till 1pm in the third phase of election in Uttar Pradesh.

Samajwadi Party has accused BJP MLA Archana Pandey of going inside polling booths 324 and 325 of Chibramau assembly constituency and abusing the SP agent, forcing him to leave. The SP has sought the ECI to take stern action.

Police and BJP workers ended up in a scuffle in Juhi area of Kanpur. More details awaited.

“Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, who were born with silver spoons, used to mock Jan Dhan accounts. Now they understood the meaning of it. It meant that ₹2000 each will be transferred to accounts of 10.50 crore farmers every 3 months,” BJP national president JP Nadda hits out at Opposition in UP's Shravasti.

Lalitpur – 42.10%

Kannauj – 37.9%

Kanpur – 28.98%

Kanpur Dehat – 34.43%

Kasganj – 37.56%

Firozabad – 38.24%

Jalaun – 37.3%

Jhansi – 32.86%

Etah – 42.31%

Mainpuri – 41.14%

Auraiya – 33.37%

Hathras – 36.61%

Etawah – 36.27%

Farrukhabad – 35.10%

Mahoba – 38.13%

Hamirpur – 35.83%

Samajwadi Party tweeted from its official Twitter handle that their election symbol is missing from EVM at booth number 38 in Vidhan Sabha 194 of Farrukhabad district and urged the Election Commission and District Administration to take cognisance of the matter.

Voter turnout has been recorded at 21.18 per cent till 11am in the third phase of election in Uttar Pradesh.

“BJP is going to be eliminated. Farmers of UP won't forgive them. We've hit century in first two phases and even in this phase, SP and alliance would be ahead of everyone else,” says Samajwadi Party chief and candidate from Karhal, Akhilesh Yadav after casting his vote in Jaswantnagar.

Polling is going on in a hassle-free manner in Bikru village where gangster Vikas Dubey had killed eight policemen in July 2020. Police security is present in the village.

Mahoba – 22.89%

Kannauj – 21.99%

Kanpur – 16.27%

Kanpur Dehat – 19.86%

Hamirpur – 24.23%

Kasganj – 22.54%

Firozabad – 24.30%

Jalaun – 21.66%

Jhansi – 19.11%

Etah – 24.30%

Mainpuri – 24.45%

Hathras – 22.80%

Auraiya – 20.04%

In Maharajpur constituency, cabinet minister Satish Mahana was locked in a face off with the security personnel. 

Meanwhile, voters were seen protesting in Shahbazpur area of Rasoolabad in Kanpur Dehat after they did not find their names in the electoral rolls.

BJP leader Nawab Singh, who is the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, films himself voting for the BJP candidate in Sisamau, Kanpur. An FIR has been registered against him. 

Voter turnout has been recorded at 8.15 per cent till 9am in the third phase of election in Uttar Pradesh.

Kanpur – 5.89 %

Kasganj – 9.42%

Farrukhabad – 9.61%

Mahoba – 8.02%

Firozabad – 9.79%

Etah – 11.6%

Mainpuri – 11.03%

Kannauj – 10.11%