Kanpur Nagar Nigam election results 2017 LIVE UPDATES

Kanpur Nagar Nigam election results will be out in a few hours from now. Here are the live updates.

IndiaToday.in  | Posted by Vivek Surendran
New Delhi, December 1, 2017 | UPDATED 11:52 IST
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Uttar Pradesh Nagar Nigam election results will be announced today. 

Kanpur Nagar Nikay Chunav counting is ongoing. There are 110 wards under the Kanpur Nagar Nigam.

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Here are the LIVE UPDATES FROM KANPUR

  • BJP candidate Pramila Pandey leads by 19,500 votes.
  • BJP is now leading in Moradabad, Ayodhya, Faizabad, Varanasi, Firozabad, Saharanpur, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad, Bareilly, Kanpur, Mathura, that is, 14 out of 16 municipal corporations in Uttar Pradesh.
  • In 2012, BJP won 27 wards in Kanpur, Congress won 20, BSP and SP none.
  • BJP candidate is leading with over 12,000 votes, Congress is chasing with over 10,000 votes and the Samajwadi Party secured just 4,000 votes.
  • Two rounds of vote count has concluded.
  • Candidates fielded by Congress and SP are lagging.
  • BJP Mayor candidate Pramila is leading in Kanpur. 
  • The Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party will be fighting it out.
  • Counting began at 8 AM today.
  • Kanpur Nagar Nigam went to polls in the first phase of Uttar Pradesh civic polls on November 22.