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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections getting 274 seats (as per the EC website at 10:15 p.m.) in a deeply bipolar contest though with a reduced tally from their 2017 score of 312 seats. The Samajwadi Party a distant runner-up with 110 seats, lost the fight even though they improved their vote share by nearly ten percentage points and increased its tally by 63 seats.