UP civic poll results 2017: BJP mayor candidate Asha Sharma wins Ghaziabad seat

The counting of votes for 652 civic bodies underway across the state on Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party is leading at maximum mayoral seats in early trends. The polls were concluded for 16 municipal corporations, 198 municipal councils and 438 Nagar panchayats. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had addressed 32 rallies in 14 days. 

Here are the live updates-

# BJP mayor candidate Asha Sharma wins Ghaziabad seat

# BJP mayor candidate Hrishikesh Upadhyaya wins Ayodhya seat 

# SP activists create turmoil at counting centre in Ferozabad 

# BSP's mayor candidate Digamber Singh Dhakare leading by 21902 votes

# BJP Mayor candidates leading in Varanasi and Firozabad

# BJP's mayor candidate Rajiv Agarwal leading in Aligarh 

# BJP's mayor candidate Sanjeev Valia is leading in Ballia 

# BJP mayor candidate Abhilasha is leading in Allahabad

# Amethi Nagarpalika trends: SP leading in Gauriganj, BJP leading in Jais

# Lathicharge by Police on crowd gathered outside counting centre in Muzaffarnagar. Four people injured

# BJP candidate Meera Agarwal wins the lucky draw. BJP and Congress both had got 874 votes in Ward no.56 in Mathura

# BJP candidate wins ward number 62 in Agra 

# BJP Mayor candidate Sanyukta Bhatia leads in Lucknow

# BJP Mayor candidate leading in Kanpur.Congress second, BSP third and SP fourth

# BSP candidate leading in Meerut Municipal Corporation 

# BSP candidate wins ward number 6 in Agra Municipal Corporation 

# Samajwadi Party wins 2 seats in Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation 

# Cong, other parties were giving internal support to each other, We fought alone and we are now leading with a good number in early trends: Mahendra Nath Pandey 

# BJP mayor candidate leading in Ghaziabad

# Three independents candidate win in Saharanpur 

# BSP mayor candidate now leading in Meerut and Congress leading in Mathura

# BJP mayor candidate leading in first round of counting in Varanasi 

# BJP wins two wards in Agra 

# Ballot box found unsealed in Noida's Dankaur, senior officials at the spot

# BJP registers first win at ward no 69 in Gorakhpur 

# BJP Mayor candidate leading by over 1000 votes in Moradabad, BSP second, SP third and Congress fourth. BJP also leading in Pilibhit

# BJP candidate leading in Loni municipality

# District administration has banned entry of media at counting centre in Jalaun 

# BJP's mayor candidate Mridula Jaiswal trailing in Varanasi 

# BJP mayor candidate leading in Moradabad

# BJP's Navin Jain leading in Agra 

# I don't consider anyone my competitor. I will be number one, no matter who is second or third: Sanyukta Bhatia, BJP Lucknow Mayor candidate

# SP candidate leading in Ferozabad 

# BJP mayoral candidates leading in Varanasi, Ayodhya and Ghaziabad

# BSP mayoral candidate leading in Saharanpur 

# BJP mayoral candidates leading in Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Faizabad and Meerut 

UP local body polls counting to begin shortly. Visuals from counting centre in Lucknow pic.twitter.com/hOhLbMC03O

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 1, 2017

The polls were concluded in three phase in the state. 

State election commissioner SK Agarwal informed that counting of votes will begin at 8 am. He said the average voting percentage was 52.5 percent in the state. As many as 79,113 candidates were in the fray. 

All district administrations have ordered the closure of liquor shops in the state from November 30 till midnight of December 1.