Title : 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections - 64.22% Polling in Phase 1 on Saturday Feb 11,2017
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2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections - 64.22% Polling in Phase 1 on Saturday Feb 11,2017
he first phase of the 2017 UP assembly elections were concluded at 5pm on Saturday with 64.22% of the electorate in western UP coming out to vote.
The first phase of the elections saw polling in 15 districts, 73 Assembly constituencies and 839 candidates in the fray. Over 26,000 polling booths had been set up across the 15 districts for over 2.60 crore people who came out to vote on Saturday.
The turnout in the first phase was more than that in 2012, when 61.5% turnout was recorded. The highest turnout was recorded in Shamli district at 67.12% and the lowest was in Ghaziabad at 58.1%. The constituency with the highest turnout, however, was Fatehabad in Agra district.
Several heavyweights, including former UP BJP chief Laxmikant Bajpai, riot-accused BJP MLA Sangeet Som, riot-accused UP BJP vice president Suresh Rana, state cabinet minister Shahid Manzoor, senior BSP leader Yaqub Qureshi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s son Pankaj Singh and Congress Legislative Party leader Pradeep Mathur, were in the fray in the first phase of polling.
As the most communally sensitive belt of Uttar Pradesh, the first phase was believed to be BJP’s game to lose. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the influential Jat community in western UP came out to support the BJP in droves.
This time, however, the dynamic seems to be shifting as since the last year, several Jat outfits have protested against the BJP claiming that the party had “betrayed” the Jat community.
Among the 15 districts that went to polls on Saturday, western UP’s ‘Jat belt’ reported higher turnout than the region-wide average. The Jat-dominated district of Shamli, which also houses the hot seat of Kairana, polled 67.12% of the vote.
Mathura, the district with the highest concentration of Jats in western UP, polled 65.39% of the votes. Baghpat, which is the home-district of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh, recorded a turnout of 64.99%.
Muzaffarnagar district, which was the flashpoint of the 2013 Jat-Muslim riots, recorded a turnout of 66.50%.
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