The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won a total of 13 out of the 28 seats in the recently concluded Member of Legislative (MLC) elections. BJP’s allies including Janata Dal United – JD(U), Janata Dal Secular – JD(S), Shiv Sena have won one seat each. In Opposition’s bloc, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has bagged three seats and is poised to win two more. The Congress, Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have got one seat each, whereas two seats each have been claimed by Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and independents. The elections to the 28 seats were held via ballot papers for Graduate and Teacher constituencies across four states including Uttar Pradesh (11 seats), Maharashtra (5 seats), Karnataka (4 seats), and Bihar (8 seats). The elections were held on October 23, 2026.
Uttar Pradesh MLC Results
In Uttar Pradesh, Legislative Council elections ended in six-five result. While the BJP has already won six of the 11 seats, the Samajwadi Party is poised to bag five with three results announced and two yet to be.
According to results declared so far, the BJP had won Agra Graduates’ constituency, Bareilly-Moradabad Teachers’ constituency, Lucknow Teachers’ constituency, Meerut Teachers’ and Graduates’ constituencies, and Gorakhpur-Faizabad Teachers’ constituency.
The SP had won Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ constituency, and Varanasi and Agra-Aligarh Teachers’ constituencies.
A senior district official said that SP candidate Kanti Singh has won the Lucknow Graduates’ constituency and has been issued the certificate of election.
According to data shared earlier, Kanti Singh had received 51,168 votes against 36,313 secured by BJP nominee Avneesh Kumar Singh after more than eight rounds of counting.
In Varanasi Graduates’ constituency, SP’s Ashutosh Sinha had received 50,462 votes against BJP candidate Kedar Nath Singh’s 33,478 after the ninth round of counting of first-preference votes, data showed.
Kedar Nath Singh conceded defeat in a social media post. He thanked voters for their support and said he accepted the mandate with humility and in accordance with democratic norms.
Before the polls, the BJP held six of the 11 seats – Agra, Meerut-Saharanpur and Lucknow Graduates’ seats and Bareilly-Moradabad, Lucknow and Meerut-Saharanpur Teachers’ constituencies.
The SP held three – Varanasi and Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ seats and Varanasi Teachers’ constituency. In Meerut, the BJP won both the Teachers’ and Graduates’ constituencies.
In the Gorakhpur-Faizabad division Teachers’ constituency, BJP’s Dhruv Kumar Tripathi was leading with 466 votes over his rival, Independent candidate Rajiv Yadav, after the final round of counting.
The Varanasi Teachers’ constituency has been won by Samajwadi Party’s Lal Bihari Yadav.
In the Agra-Aligarh Teachers’ constituency, SP candidate Akash Agrawal defeated BJP nominee Hari Kishore Tiwari.
Maharashtra MLC Results
In Maharashtra, Congress candidate Abhijeet Wanjari on Thursday declared the winner from Nagpur after a keenly-watched vote counting exercise that stretched for more than 40 hours.
Wanjari defeated BJP’s Sudhakar Kohale by 3,271 votes to retain the Nagpur Division Graduates’ constituency seat, which has been a traditional stronghold of the saffron party.
Wanjari, a sitting MLC, secured 67,231 votes, while Kohale, a former MLA, got 63,960 votes.
It is a big setback for the BJP as it has lost in the hometown of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari who had campaigned extensively for Kohale.
Gadkari was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from the Nagpur graduates’ constituency for 24 years, from July 1990, to May 2014.
With the Congress nominee’s victory, the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi has won three of the five MLC seats. The BJP-led ruling Mahayuti alliance got two seats.
Karnataka MLC Results
In Karnataka, the Congress suffered a setback, losing in all the four seats with the opposition JD(S) wresting one segment from the ruling party and its ally BJP retaining three.
The JD(S) wrested the Bengaluru Teachers’ Constituency from Congress. The BJP registered victory in North-East Teachers’, South-East Graduates’ and West Graduates’ constituencies, defeating the Congress candidates.
Karnataka BJP chief B Y Vijayendra said the NDA’s victory is a rejection of the ruling Congress and a pointer to the 2028 assembly elections.
Bihar MLC Results
In Bihar, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party opened its account, where the BJP, the JD(U), the RJD and an Independent have won one seat each.
Jan Suraaj Party’s Suresh Prasad Rai defeated sitting Congress MLC Madan Mohan Jha by 324 votes in the Darbhanga Teachers seat in Bihar.
BJP candidate Narendra Prasad Singh had on Tuesday trounced his nearest rival, independent nominee Bhushan Kumar Jha, to win the Tirhut Teachers’ constituency.
In the Patna Graduates constituency, JD(U)’s Neeraj Kumar has defeated the RJD candidate, though official results for the seat are yet to be declared.
BJP sitting MLC from Patna Teachers seat, Nawal Kishor Yadav, has lost to RJD’s Sanjiv Kumar, sources said.
In the Saran Teachers constituency, sitting MLC Afaq Ahmed was defeated by independent candidate Rahul Raj, they said.
With inputs from agencies
