Notification on bye election to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

Election Commission of India is busy conducting elections in various legislative councils throughout India. Well, ECI had announced bye elections to Karnataka Legislative Council and now it is turn of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. For this reason Indian Election Commission released notification of election dates of UP bye elections recently.



UP bye elections to be held

ECI decided election of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (bye elections) to be done by Members of Legislative Assembly. This elections are for four casual vacancies which are in State Legislative Council of UP or Uttar Pradesh.

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Reason for bye elections to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

Decision on this sudden elections happened because some of the sitting members of UP Legislative Council resigned. You can also have a look at the members who have resigned from Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council below –

Name of the member Date of vacancy Actual date of retirement
Sri. Buqqal Nawab 29 July 2017 6 July 2022
Shri. Yashwant 29 July 2017 6 July 2022
Dr. Sarojini Agarwal 4 August 2017 30 January 2021
Shri Ashok Bajpai 9 August 2017 30 January 2021

As a result Election Commission of India announced complete schedule to bye elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh. You also can have a look at the schedule of these bye elections to UP Legislative Council by Members of the State Legislative Assembly below –



Schedule of bye elections to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council

Programme schedule Date and day
Issue of notification 29 August 2017 / Tuesday
Last date to make nomination 5 September 2017 / Tuesday
Inspection of nominations 6 September 2017 / Wednesday
Last date to withdraw candidature 8 September 2017/ Friday
Date of the poll 15 September 2017 / Friday
Hours of the poll 9 am to 4 pm
Counting of votes 15 September 2017 / Friday at 5 pm
Last date before which elections will finish 18 September 2017 that is on Monday

This is the schedule of Uttar Pradesh bye elections. On other hand if you wish to update or make some changes in your Voter ID card then you can do it easily. It is so because authorities allow you to easily make changes to your Voter ID card. However for this you should have proper documents as only with correct documents you can vote for some other person during elections.




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