Lucknow Assembly Election Results 2017: Rita Bahuguna Joshi defeats Mulayam`s `bahu` Aparna Yadav in Cantt seat

Lucknow: Aparna lost, Rita wins!

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Lucknow voted in the third phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections. The battle for the capital is very interesting as Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav is pitched against Bharatiya Janata Party's Rita Bahuguna Joshi.

LUCKNOW WEST ELECTIONS RESULTS 2017

17 candidates are contesting from Lucknow West in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections.

Key candidates

BSP candidate Armaan Khan

BJP candidate Suresh Kumar Shrivastav

SP candidate Mod Rehan

RLD candidate Pramod Singh Yadav

SP leader Mohd Rehan won the 2012 UP polls with 49912 votes. BJP's Suresh Kumar Shrivastav came second with 42100 votes.

UP Election Results 2017

LUCKNOW NORTH ELECTIONS RESULTS 2017

Key candidates

BSP's Ajay Kumar Srivastava

BJP's Dr Neeraj Bora

SP's Abhishek Mishr

SP leader Abhishek Mishra won the 2012 UP polls by defeating Congress candidate Dr. Neeraj Bora. While Mishra bagged 47580 votes, Bora got 45361 votes.

Dr Bora is contesting the 2017 UP polls under the banner of BJP.

LUCKNOW EAST ELECTIONS RESULTS 2017

Lucknow East is considered to BJP’s bastion ever since 1991.

Lucknow East has 3,56,340 registered voters. It comprises 1,91,777 male and 1,64,557 female registered voters.

BJP leader Kalraj Mishra won the 2012 Assembly elections by winning got 68,726 votes. Samajwadi Party's Juhie Singh managed 47,908 votes.

Key candidates

BSP candidate Saroj Kumar Shukla

BJP candidate Ashutosh Tandan "Gopal Ji"

Congress candidate Anurag Singh

RLD candidate Rohit Agarwal

LUCKNOW CENTRAL ELECTIONS RESULTS 2017

Samajwadi Party won the Lucknow Central constituency in 2012. SP”s Ravidas Mehrotra won 62622 votes. BJP's Vidya Sagar Gupta was the runner up with 39890 votes.

Key candidates

BSP's Rajeev Srivastava

BJP's Brijesh Pathak

Congress' Abdul Maroof Khan

RLD's Ramesh Chandra

SP's Ravidas Mehrotra

LUCKNOW CANTT ELECTIONS RESULTS 2017

This high-profile constituency is set to witness a tough battle between SP and the BJP. It is a prestige issue for the Yadav clan as Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav is contesting from LUCKNOW CANTT and is pitched against BJP's Dr Reeta Bahuguna Joshi,

Key candidates

SP's Aparna Yadav

BJP's Dr Reeta Bahuguna Joshi, who was earlier associated with Congress

BSP's Yogesh Dixit

RLD's Virendra Kumar Shukla

Registered voters 3,20,755, out of which 1,73,740 male and 1,46,998 female.

In the 2012 Assembly elections, the then Congress leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi defeated BJP leader Suresh Chandra Tiwari.

While Joshi got 63,052 votes, Tiwari managed 41,299 votes.