- By Talibuddin Khan
- Sat, 13 May 2023 07:18 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Kanpur Nagar Nigam Election Result 2023: BJP Mayor candidate Pramila Pandey on Saturday won the Kanpur mayoral election by a huge margin of over 1.77 lakh votes against Samajwadi party candidate Vandana Bajpai who came in the second position. After her win, Pramila Pandey said that the victory in Kanpur municipal corporation polls is a victory of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's governance in Kanpur.
"This is a victory of Chief Minister's Yogi Adityanath governance in Kanpur. This is a win for the people of Kanpur," Pramila Pandey said after her win. It has to be noted that Pramila Pandey was mayor of Kanpur from 2017-2022.
Pramila Pandey received 4,40,353 votes defeating SP's Vandana Bajpai, who got 2,62,507 votes. Congress candidate Ashni Vikas Awasthi got 90,480 votes in the Kanpur Municipal Corporation election. Archana Nishad of the BSP received 52,143 votes.
Meanwhile, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath thanked people and congratulated BJP workers on the party's massive victory in the urban local body polls and for forming a "triple-engine government" in the state. Adityanath had led the campaign for the urban local body polls, holding several election meetings across the state.
"Hearty congratulations to all the dedicated and hardworking workers of the BJP and the people of Uttar Pradesh, who love good governance, on the massive victory of the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh municipal elections," Adityanath said in a tweet in Hindi.
"This massive victory reflects the successful guidance of respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji and immense public faith in the pro-people, developmental and all-inclusive policies of the double-engine government," he added.
Civic body polls were held in 17 municipal corporations across the state, including the recently formed Shahjahanpur municipal corporation. About 53 per cent of voters exercised their franchise, out of the total 4.32 crore who were eligible. UP had voted for civic body polls in two phases -- on May 4 and May 11. 83,378 candidates fought for 14,522 posts in the local body elections.