The overall percentage for Uttar Pradesh civic polls recorded an improvement from 46.2% in 2012 to 52.5% this time. Realising that the performance of the state government and the BJP would be closely scrutinized because of the civic poll results, Adityanath campaigned for his government. Campaigns of other political parties like Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) were low key. Neither BSP chief Mayawati or former chief minister and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav campaigned during the local body elections. The polling for municipal elections were held on 22, 26 and 29 November.

Source: Mint December 01, 2017 04:11 UTC