UP MLC Results 2026: Counting for 11 Seats; current tally updates

Counting of votes for the 11 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (MLC) seats (5 Graduates’ and 6 Teachers’ constituencies) is underway across 7 counting centres. Because voting was conducted via paper ballots using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, bundling and preferential counting have extended declarations late into the night.

Key Highlights & Results Declared

• Meerut Sweep for BJP:
  • Meerut Teachers’ Seat: BJP candidate Shri Chand Sharma secured victory, defeating SP’s Nitin Tomar by over 13,000 votes.
  • Meerut Graduates’ Seat: BJP’s Dinesh Goyal retained the seat, defeating SP’s Pramod (Pramendra) Bhati by over 12,800 votes.
• Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ Seat:
  • BJP candidate Dr. Hari Singh Dhillon registered a decisive win over SP’s Danish Akhtar with a margin exceeding 17,000 votes.
• Varanasi Teachers’ Seat:
  • SP candidate Lal Bihari Yadav leads comfortably after primary preference counting with 10,958 votes against BJP’s Dr. Pramod Mishra (6,060 votes), though second-preference redistribution has been initiated to formally attain the winning quota.

Constituency-Wise Trends

What to Expect Next

For large Graduates’ constituencies (like Lucknow, Varanasi, and Agra), candidate counts exceed dozens of nominees, meaning elimination and redistribution rounds of second- and third-preference votes will continue overnight before final certificates are issued.