Ballia Nagar Election Result Live: This time all eyes are on the Ballia Nagar Assembly seat (Ballia Nagar Assembly Seat Results live). Counting of votes has started on this seat. In early trends, BJP’s Dayashankar Singh is leading by over 9,000 votes. In the recent past, it has been seen that the winner of this seat has got a ministerial post in the state. From here Narad Rai from SP and Shivdas Prasad Verma from BSP are in the electoral fray.
Update till 01:30 PM
BJP: Dayashankar Singh – 36,766 votes
SP: Narad Rai – 27,575 votes
BSP: Shivdas Prasad Verma – 3,028 votes
Update till 11:30 am
BJP: Dayashankar Singh – Leading by more than 3700 votes
SP: Narad Rai – at number two
In the last election, Anand Swaroop Shukla of BJP won the election from here and was made a minister in the Yogi government. He had made BJP return to this seat after 24 years in the last election. But this time he has been given a ticket from Bairia. While the BJP has fielded Dayashankar Singh, husband of Swati Singh, a minister in the Yogi government from this seat. This time the main contest on this seat is expected to be between BJP and SP.
In the 2017 assembly elections, Anand Swarup was contesting on this seat from SP, former minister Narad Rai and Samajwadi Party candidate Laxman Gupta. Anand Swarup, who was contesting the election for the first time, had won. He defeated Laxman Gupta by more than 40 thousand votes.
However, after this election, Narad Rai returned to the SP and this time trying his luck from the same seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket. He had reached the assembly in 2002 and 2012 on SP ticket. At the same time, Omprakash Tiwari from Congress and Shivdas Prasad Verma from BSP are in the fray. This time the votes were cast here on March 3.
BJP’s record in Ballia Sadar seat
BJP’s record in Ballia Sadar assembly seat has not been good. Till now BJP has won this seat only twice. in 1993 and 2017. Apart from this, there has not been a second number party in any election. In the 2007 and 2012 elections, the party became the number five and sixth. The condition of Congress has also not been good. In 1980, Kashinath Mishra had won this seat for the last time for the Congress. Vikramaditya Pandey from Janata Party and Janata Dal won three consecutive elections in 1985, 89 and 91. Manju was elected from BSP in 1996 and 2007.
2017 election results
Anand Swaroop Shukla of BJP got a total of 92889 votes in the last election. SP’s Laxman Gupta got 52878 votes and BSP’s Narad Rai got 31,515 votes.
In Ballia Nagar assembly seat with 3.70 lakh voters, Vaish voters are 51 thousand, Brahmins 46 thousand, Yadav 42 thousand, Kshatriya 36 thousand, Muslim 35 thousand and Bhumihar voters are about 12 thousand.
