Apna Dal's Shafeek Ahmad Ansari won the Suar seat defeating BJP's arch-rival Samajwadi Party's Anuradha Chauhan by a margin of nearly 9,000 votes, while Apna Dal's Rinki Kol defeated SP's Kirti Kol in Chhanbey by a margin of over 9,000 votes.
In his public appearances, Adityanath had kept his aim firmly on two targets – the criminals and mafiosos whose rule he said he had put an end to, and the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party.