# India

Live Updates: Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results 2017

SNS | New Delhi | March 11, 2017 4:20 am

Counting of votes started in Uttar Pradesh at 8 am on Saturday. As reflected in most of the exit polls, BJP is leading by huge margin with the SP-Congress alliance trailing behind it. Here are the live updates.

Uttar Pradesh election results 2017:

Parties	Leads	Won
BJP	305	0
SP+Congress	70	0
BSP	17	0
Others	9	0
RLD	0	0

11.25 am: Massive celebrations at BJP's head office in Delhi. Party workers chant BJP, Modi slogans.

11.10 am: BJP crosses 300 mark. Leaders hail historic win.

11.00 am: BJP's Suresh Rana trailing BSP's Abdul Waris Khan in Thana Bhawan seat in Shamli by over 5000 votes.

10.25 am: SP leader Shivpal Yadav leading by 5,742 votes in Jaswant Nagar (Etawah) over his nearest rival Manish Yadav Batre of BJP.

10.15 am: BJP's Garima Singh leads in Amethi (UP). The demonetisation drive may not have damaged the voters' confidence on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

9.46 am: BJP crosses the half mark with 203 seats. The party is leading in western UP.