New Delhi: After the politics, here is the mathematics of UP Assembly elections.
The election, which saw the Mayawati's social engineering do the trick all across the state, not only returned an unprecedented verdict to install a single-party government in the state after 12 years, it also brought in a historic overhaul in the state's political landscape. The elections broke up existing vote-banks, split strongholds of different parties and wiped out permanent domains of various political affiliations.
So much so that more than half of the 402 seats that had gone to polls changed hands in the hustings, with the BSP definitely benefiting the most. The party wrested as many as 71 SP seats, which is more than what it could actually retain (64) from its own 2002 kitty. BSP also did the maximum damage to the BJP, by winning 44 seats that had been won by the saffron party in the 2002 elections.
Interestingly, while the BSP wave swept through the entire state, the Dalit party too lost 33 seats that it had won in 2002. And 19 of them went to Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP while five went to Congress.
Between the BJP and SP, the two parties kind of exchanged certain seats between them, SP wrested 18 BJP seats while BJP grabbed 16 from SP's kitty. Similarly, while BJP gained two Congress seats this time, the Congress took away 3 BJP seats.
While the Congress party largely targeted the SP during the poll campaign, the reaction was almost reverse in the poll result. SP taken away as many as eight Congress seats while Congress grabbed six seats that Mulayam's party had won in 2002 polls.
For Mulayam Singh Yadav, the biggest setback was the defeat of as many as 30 of his ministers and more than 60 per cent of his MLAs that the party was heavily banking on. As many as 108 SP MLAs lost in the hustings while in case of BJP, 59 sitting MLAs failed to retain their seats. For BSP too, 27 MLAs failed to click in spite of the wave in favour of the party.
As many as 22 Independents, 13 Congress MLAs and 10 RLD MLAs were among the other sitting legislators who were denied a repeat win in their respective constituencies.
WHO ATE INTO WHOSE SHARE
Parties
BSP
SP
BJP
CONG
Region-wise, the Rohilakhand region witnessed the maximum churning where only sitting MLAs could retain only 14 out of the 57 seats, which went to polls in the third phase.
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