Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017 results LIVE: BJP's Mukesh Arya is new Mayor

BJP's Mukesh Arya won the tightly contested Mayoral election for Mathura which was voting for the first time after the Yogi Adityanath government recently merged Mathura and Vrindavan to constitute the Mathura Nagar Nigam.

The election results for the Mathura Nagar nigam elections 2017 will be announced today. On November 26, a total of 70 wards went to the ballot boxes in the second phase of the UP urban local body election.The counting of votes for the results began at 8am today and will continue till resuts of each ward under the Mathura Nagar Nigam are announced.
This is the first election for the recently merged Mathura and Vrindavan municipal boards which now constitute the Mathura Nagar Nigam.
In the Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017, the main parties are the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).

Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017 LIVE UPDATES

• In Mathura Nagar Nigam, BJP's candidate Mukesh Arya polled 41,222 votes while Congress' Mohan Singh polled 4,706 less votes and came in second with 36,516.
• In Mathura Nagar Nigam, BJP's candidate Mukesh Arya has won the election for the post of Mayor.
• In the UP Nagar Nigam election 2017, BJP's mayoral candidates are leading in Aligarh, Ayodhya, Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Firozabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Allahabad, Bareilly, Moradabad, Gorakhpur and Mathura. The BSP is leading in the three key seats of Meerut, Agra and Jhansi.
• In Mathura Nagar Nigam, BJP's mayor candidate Mukesh Arya is leading by nearly 2000 votes in the third round of counting.
• In the Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017, BJP candidate Mukesh Arya is leading with 29396 votes while Congress candidate Mohan Singh is trailing with 27002 votes.
• BJP candidate Meera Agarwal wins the lucky draw. BJP and Congress both had got 874 votes in Ward no.56 in Mathura.
• BJP and Congress both have got 874 votes in Ward no.56 in Mathura. The winner will now be decided by a lucky draw: ANI reports.
• In what is turning out to be a contest of nerves in the Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017, the BJP's mayoral candidate - Mukesh Arya - has once again taken the lead with 17045 votes while the Congress' candidate Mohan Singh has taken second position with 15445 votes. The BSP's mayoral candidate for Mathura is trailing far behind with only 5508 votes.
• Mathura is seeing a close contest for the Mayor between the BJP and Congress candidates. The Congress candidate is leading with 11214 votes while the BJP's candidate is trailing with 10974. The SP and the BSP are trailing far behind in the Mathura Nagar Nigam Election 2017 with 2022 and 3790 votes, respectively.
• The BJP has overtaken the BSP in Firozabad which was leading with a heavy margin in the early trends. The BJP leaped ahead of the BSP in the fourth round of counting in the Uttar Pradesh Nagar Nigam Election 2017.
• The BJP is also leading in Allahabad, Kanpur, Bareilly and Moradabad while the Bahujan Samaj Party is leading in Jhansi.
• Sanyukta Bhatia, the BJP's candidate for mayor in Lucknow, has expressed confidence that she will win.
• In Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017, the BJP's mayoral candidate - Mukesh Arya - is leading with 5987 votes while the Congress' candidate Mohan Singh has taken second position with 5632 votes. The BSP's mayoral candidate for Mathura is trailing far behind with only 1000 votes.
• Congress is leading in the postal ballot count securing 42 votes as against BJP's 25 votes in Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017.
• The Congress' Mayoral candidate in Mathura Nagar Nigam election 2017 has taken the lead against the BJP candidate.
• The latest trends show BJP leading in 15 municipal corporations with SP in 1 and the BSP and Congress tied together at nil in the Mathura Nagar Nigam Election 2017.
• Counting of votes get underway for Mathura Nagar Nigam Elections 2017.

In Moradabad, the BJP's mayoral candidate is leading by over 1000 votes, BSP second, SP third and Congress fourth. BJP is also leading in Pilibhit.

The counting of votes is being carried out at 334 centres. Currently, the counting of postal ballots is on. The counting of votes recorded in the EVMs will begin after half-an-hour.

The fate of 79,113 candidates will be decided today. As many as 334 vote counting centres have been set up across Uttar Pradesh. The counting of votes is being conducted at 16 Nagar Nigams, 436 Nagar Panchayats and 198 Nagar Palika Parishad.

The voting for the three phases of Uttar Pradesh Local Elections 2017 was held on November 22, 26 and 29. A total of 52.3 per cent of voter turnout was recorded in all.

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