Of the 11 Legislative Council seats in Uttar Pradesh that went to polls, the ruling BJP won six and the Opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) four. The counting of votes for the last Graduate constituency in Varanasi stretched till Thursday morning, with the SP leading.

The six seats won by the BJP include four Teachers’ constituencies of Bareilly-Moradabad, Lucknow , Meerut and Gorakhpur-Faizabad, and two Graduates’ constituencies of Agra and Meerut.

The Samajwadi Party, on the other hand, won the Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ constituency, the Lucknow Graduates’ seat and two teachers’ constituencies of Varanasi and Agra-Aligarh.

In the last elections in 2020, the BJP held six seats – Agra, Meerut-Saharanpur and Lucknow Graduates’ constituencies and Bareilly-Moradabad, Lucknow and Meerut-Saharanpur Teachers’ constituencies.…