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Lucknow/Political Desk. The picture of the biennial elections for 11 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (UP MLC)—which includes 5 graduates and 6 teachers constituencies—is almost completely clear. Due to voting through ballot papers and complex counting of preference votes, it took more than 24 hours for the results to arrive. The picture of results and decisive lead in 10 out of 11 seats is clear, in which a direct and close contest has been seen between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP). In this semi-final contest held before the 2027 assembly elections, BJP has won on 6 seats, while Samajwadi Party has registered a strong victory on 4 seats. At the same time, there is a tough contest in the Gorakhpur-Faizabad teacher seat, the home constituency of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, with the counting of final preference votes. UP MLC Elections: Complete Winner List of 10 seats declared and decisive The seat wise list of declared winners and decisive lead on 10 seats under Teacher and Graduate constituencies of the Legislative Council is as follows: S.No. Constituency (Seat Name) Seat Category Winner / Decisive Lead Related Political Party Nearest Rival / Party 1. Meerut Graduates’ Seat Graduates’ Dinesh Kumar Goyal (Winner) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Pramendra Singh Bhati (SP) 2. Agra Graduates’ Seat Graduates’ Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh (Winner) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Shashank Yadav (SP) 3. Meerut Teachers Seat Teachers (Teachers’) Srichand Sharma (Winner) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nitin Kumar Tomar (SP) 4. Lucknow Teachers’ Seat Teachers (Teachers’) Umesh Dwivedi (Winner) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sushil Kumar (SP) 5. Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ Seat Teachers’ (Teachers’) Dr. Hari Singh Dhillon (Winner) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Haji Danish Akhtar (SP) 6. Varanasi Teachers’ Seat Teachers’ Lal Bihari Yadav (Winner) Samajwadi Party (SP) Dr. Pramod Mishra (BJP) 7. Agra Teachers’ Seat Teachers’ Dr. Akash Aggarwal (Winner) Samajwadi Party (SP) Dinesh Chandra Vashishtha (Independent/BJP Supported) 8. Lucknow Block Graduates’ Seat Graduates’) Kanti Singh (Winner/Decisive Win) Samajwadi Party (SP) E. Avnish Kumar Singh (BJP) 9. Varanasi Graduates’ Seat Graduates’ Ashutosh Sinha (Winner/Decisive Win) Samajwadi Party (SP) Kedarnath Singh (BJP) 10. Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ Seat Graduates’ Dr. Man Singh Yadav (Winner/Decisive Win) Samajwadi Party (SP) Dr. Ashok Kumar Rathore (BJP) (Note: Transfer of second preference votes continued between BJP’s Dhruv Kumar Tripathi and independent candidate Rajeev Yadav on the 11th seat i.e. Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers constituency, where the final announcement took time due to the narrow margin.) BJP’s dominance in the West, saffron flag on graduates in Meerut and Agra Bharatiya Janata Party has completely proved its dominance on the seats of Western Uttar Pradesh. Clean sweep on both the seats of Meerut section: On Meerut graduate seat, BJP candidate Dinesh Kumar Goyal defeated Samajwadi Party’s Pramendra Singh Bhati by a huge margin. Whereas BJP’s Srichand Sharma won the Meerut teacher seat by defeating SP’s Nitin Kumar Tomar. Capture of Agra Graduate seat: BJP’s Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh retained his seat by winning the Agra Graduate seat for the second consecutive time and defeated SP’s Shashank Yadav. Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers Seat: BJP’s Dr. Hari Singh Dhillon registered a spectacular victory on this seat by defeating SP-backed Haji Danish Akhtar. Rajdhani Lucknow Teachers Seat: BJP’s Umesh Dwivedi won in Lucknow Teachers Constituency, leaving behind his nearest rival. SP’s counterattack: Shock on PM Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi and graduate seats. Samajwadi Party has also shown an unexpected performance in this election and has shown a strong hold among educated and young voters: Double blow in Varanasi: Samajwadi Party’s Lal Bihari Yadav won the teacher seat in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi. Along with this, SP’s Ashutosh Sinha defeated senior BJP leader Kedarnath Singh in a tough contest on the Varanasi graduate seat. SP’s return on Lucknow graduate seat: Samajwadi Party’s Kanti Singh repeated history by defeating former BJP MLC E. Avnish Kumar Singh by a huge margin on Lucknow block graduate seat. Allahabad-Jhansi Graduate Seat: On this prestigious seat spread over Prayagraj, Kaushambi, Fatehpur and Jhansi region of Bundelkhand, Dr. Man Singh Yadav of SP won the seat by taking a strong lead against Dr. Ashok Kumar Rathore of BJP. SP’s flag on Agra teacher’s seat: Dr. Akash Aggarwal opened the opposition’s account by registering victory in Agra teacher’s constituency. Political message before 2027 Assembly elections Legislative Council graduates and teacher elections are always considered a barometer of the political mood of the intellectual class, teachers and educated youth. These results have made it clear that while BJP’s organizational hold in the teacher class remains strong, Samajwadi Party has been successful to a great extent in capitalizing on the issues of unemployment, restoration of old pension (OPS) and employment on graduate seats. Both the parties have started presenting these results as a positive environment in their favor before the upcoming 2027 assembly elections.