The BJP has swept the biennial polls to the state's Legislative Council by winning 33 out of 36 constituencies. One of three local authority seats it failed to bag was in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, where it stood a distant third.
UP MLC election results 2022: BJP clean sweep polls, wins 33 of 36 seats - BJP nominees for nine seats won unopposed. Congress and BSP did not field any candidates in the election.