UP Assembly Polls: About 57.45 percent voter turnout till 5 PM

In UP, voting for the Fourth Phase of Assembly Elections concluded. The average voter turnout registered till 05.00 P.M. was 57.45 percent. The electorate of 59 Assembly constituencies in the districts of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda and Fatehpur will decide the fate of 624 candidates on Wednesday.. As many as 800 companies of paramilitary forces and over 60,000 policemen will provide security across 59 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh. Of the 59 assembly constituencies, three have been categorised as sensitive and 590 localities marked as vulnerable. As many as 38,04,114 voters, including 20,26,589 male voters and 17,77,319 female voters are expected to cast their franchise to seal the fate of 109 candidates who are in fray. Voting started at 7am and go on till 6pm. The Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is being used along with Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at every Polling Station.

BSP chief Mayawati casts vote  at Lucknow Montessori school polling station. In 2017, the BJP bagged 51 seats, four had gone to the Samajwadi Party, two to the Congress and two to Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party. BJP's ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) had bagged one seat. In the high-profile Raebareli Sadar - part of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary seat -- sitting party MLA Aditi Singh joined the BJP and is facing Congress's Manish Chauhan. Aditi Singh is the daughter of the constituency's five-time MLA, the late Akhilesh Singh. Samajwadi Party has fielded RP Yadav.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has formed an alliance with Anupriya Patel’s Apna Dal (Sonelal) and NISHAD Party led by Sanjay Nishad. The Samajwadi Party has entered into an alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal, Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party-led by Om Prakash Rajbhar, Janvadi Party (Socialist) and Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) led by Krishna Patel and Mahan Dal. All India Trinamool Congress has announced support to the SP, but decided not to field its candidates in the polls. Meanwhile, the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party have announced to go in for the upcoming polls without any alliance. Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has formed an alliance with Babu Singh Kushwaha’s Jan Adhikar Party and Bharat Mukti Morcha. Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party has also floated an alliance with over 30 regional parties. The alliance is named Samajik Parivartan Morcha. The Janta Dal (United) is contesting the polls independently in the state.