Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh recorded 53.98 percent voter turnout till 5 pm in the fifth phase of the Assembly elections today, according to the data released by the Election Commission.
A total of 61 Assembly constituencies spread across 12 districts, including Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabaki, Bahraich, Shrawasti, Gonda, Amethi, and Raebareli, voted today.
Today's voting decides the fate of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, Minister Sidharth Nath Singh, Congress Legislature Party leader Aradhana Mishra and others. As many as 692 candidates are in the fray in the fifth phase. The polling concluded at 6 pm today.
The state is witnessing a multi-cornered contest with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress, and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as prime contenders. In 2017, BJP had won 38 seats out of 55 seats in this region while the SP had retained 15 and the Congress had won two seats. With today's polling, five phases of the seven-phase Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections have already been covered. The remaining two phases will take place on March 3 and March 6. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.