BJP retains power in 4 out of 5 states

BJP retains power in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand & Manipur and emerges as single largest party in Goa. In Uttar Pradesh, BJP has won in 273 seats and Samajwadi Party has won in 125 seats,  Congress 2 and BSP got 1 seat. In one of the biggest upsets of UP assembly polls, Apna Dal (Kameravadi) leader Pallavi Patel contesting on Samajwadi Party symbol defeated UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya by a margin of 7,337 votes to bag the Sirathu seat of Kaushambi district on Thursday. Patel secured a total of 1,06,278 votes, while Maurya could garner just 98,941 votes. As many as 11 ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government failed to win in the 2022 assembly elections, despite the BJP registering an impressive victory.

According to the Election Commission website, of the 402 seats the result of which were declared, BJP won 255. Its alliance partners Apna Dal (Sonelal) bagged 12 and NISHAD Party six. Samajwadi Party has won 110 seats and was leading on one seat. Its ally RLD bagged eight seats and SBSP six. The Congress and Jansatta Dal Loktantrik led by Raghuraj Pratap Singh won one seat each and BSP got one.Former Enforcement Directorate officer and BJP candidate Rajeshwar Singh won the Sarojini Nagar seat in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow with a margin of over 32,000 votes against his nearest Samajwadi Party rival.

In Goa, results have been declared in all the 40 seats out of which 20 have gone in favour of BJP. Eleven for Congress, Independents three and others two. Aam Aadmi Party and MAG have won two each.Goa Chief Minister and BJP candidate Pramod Sawant has won Sanquelim Assembly seat. He defeated his nearest rival and Congress candidate Dharmesh Saglani by a margin of 625 votes.

The Bharatiya Janata Party coasted to a clear victory in the insurgency-ridden northeastern state of Manipur, picking up 32 seats in a house of 60. The opposition Congress in one of its worst ever performance, was reduced to just 5 seats from having the single largest party status in the 2017 elections, though Congress's former three-times chief minister O Ibobi Singh pulled off a victory from the Thoubal seat. The Janata Dal (United) won six seats while the National People's Party (NPP) won seven seats. The Naga People's Front too bagged five seats, according to the Election Commission at 11 pm. Despite its stellar showing BJP's vote share this time round increased to 37.8 per cent. However, the Congress vote share plummeted to 16.8 per cent from 35.1 per cent in 2017. Embarrassingly, NPP's share crossed that of the grand old party's and stood at an all-time high of 17.3 per cent.

In Uttrakhand,  BJP has won 47 and Congress bagged 19. Others have won four seats.  Congress senior leader and former leader of opposition Pritam Singh, and BJP’s state party chief Madan Kaushik have both retained their seats. Meanwhile, Congress  leader and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat, BJP's CM face and senior leader Pushkar Singh Dhami, and AAP’s CM face Ajay Kothiyal have been defeated.