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Uttar Pradesh : It's a landslide victory of Bhartiya Janta Party in Uttar Pradesh. BJP has won 312 seats with 39.2% vote share. However its a huge blow for the ruling Samajwadi Party, which had won 224 seats in 2012 assembly election. SP has secured 47 seats with 21.8% vote share. The Bahujan Samaj Party has won only 19 seats, but its vote share is 22.2%. It seems the division of votes between SP and BSP has immensely helped BJP in Uttar Pradesh. BJP fought UP assembly elections on the face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi only and didn't declare Chief Minister face. The BJP president told media today the Parliamentary board of the party will meet tomorrow to decide the chief minister name. On the other hand Akhilesh Yadav today accepted the mandate of the people and told his alliance with Congress party would continue. However the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati was shocked by the results. She made some allegations and told the EVMs in UP were rigged.  Results of some...

Uttar Pradesh: With 403 Assembly seats and 80 Lok Sabha constituencies, Uttar Pradesh is the biggest state of India in terms of population. Most of the seats this time have triangular contest between Samajwadi Party + Congress alliance, Bahujan Samaj Party and Bhartiya Janta Party. In western UP the fight is four dimensional because of Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal. With more than 12 crore voters no exit poll can predict the accurate result. It is very difficult to predict the result of UP, specially this time when the contest is triangular. However none of the exit poll is giving clear majority to any particular party. Most of the exit polls are showing hung assembly picture. As per the exit polls BJP will be the single largest party in UP, following SP, Congess alliance and then BSP. It will be interesting to see the equations that will form in case of hung assembly. Punjab : With 117 assembly seats in Punjab a political party needs 59 seats to form a government. It ...