Campaigning for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly election ended. Polling scheduled for Thursday on 58 seats spread across 11 districts. The BJP had won 53 of these seats in 2017 polls, whereas the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had won two seats each and one seat was won by the RLD. In the first phase, Agra is the biggest district with nine assembly seats. In 2017, the BJP had won all nine seats here.
For the 58 seats including nine reserved seats, there are a total of 623 candidates. These include 58 each from the BJP, BSP, SP-RLD, Congress and other parties as well as independents. The key constituencies that are going to polls are Mathura, Thana Bhavan, Muzaffarnagar, Noida, Kairana, Baghpat and Atrauli.
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