Organisation : Chief Electoral Officer Uttar Pradesh (ceouttarpradesh.nic.in)
Facility : Bye Elections to Legislative Councils Local Authorities’ Constituencies
Notification : https://www.electionin.in/uploads/3756-PN12_29012016.pdf
Home Page : http://ceouttarpradesh.nic.in/
Local Authorities’ Constituencies Bye Election :
The term of office of 36 members in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elected from 35 Local Authorities’ Constituencies, has expired on 15th January, 2016 on the retirement of those members as given below
Related : CEO Uttar Pradesh Muzaffar Nagar, Bikapur & Deoband Legislative Assembly Bye Election : www.electionin.in/3681.html
S.No | Name of Member | Name of Local Authorities’ Constituency :
1. Shri Parmeshwar Lal Moradabad Bijnor
2. Sh. Kesar Singh Rampur Bareilly
3. Sh. Jitendra Yadav Budaun
4. Kunwar Jayesh Prasad Pilibhit Shahjahanpur
5. Shri Abdul Hannan Hardoi
6. Shri R.S. Kushwaha Kheri
7. Shri Rakesh Singh Sitapur
8. Shri Arvind Kumar Tripathi “Guddu Tripathi” Lucknow-Unnao
9. Shri Dinesh Pratap Singh S/o Late Mahaveer Singh Rai-Bareli
10. Shri Akshay Pratap Singh Pratapgarh
11. Shri Ashok Singh Sultanpur
12. Shri Har Govind Singh (vacant from 25.2.2015 due to Barabanki resignation)
13. Shri Arunveer Singh Bahraich
14. Smt. Savita Singh Gonda
15. Shri Manoj Kumar Singh alias “Guddu” Faizabad
16. Shri Manish Jaiswal Basti-Siddharth Nagar
17. Shri Ganesh Shanker Pandey Gorakhpur-Maharajganj
18. Shri Sanjeev Dwivedy alias Ramu Dwivedy Deoria
19. Shri Kailash Yadav Azamgarh-Mau
20. Shri Ravi Shanker Singh “Pappu” Ballia
21. Shri Rajdev Singh Ghazipur
22. Smt. Prabhawati Pal (vacant from 5.10.15 due to Jaunpur
24. Shri Shyam Narain Singh alias Vineet Singh Mirzapur-Sonbhadra
25. Shri Suraj Bhan Karwaria Allahabad
26. Smt. Husna Siddiqui Banda-Hamirpur
27. Dr. Sant Ram Niranjan Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur
28. Shri Ashok Katiyar Kanpur-Fatehpur
29. Shri Manoj Agarwal Etawah-Farrukhabad
30. Dr. Swadesh Kumar alias Veeru Suman Agra-Firozabad
31. Shri Lekhraj Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri
32. Shri Chandrapratap Singh Yadav alias Chandu Bhaiya Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri
33. Shri. Mukul Upadhyay Aligarh
34. Shri. Anil Kumar Awana Bulandshahr
35. Shri. Prashant Chaudhary Meerut-Ghaziabad
36. Shri Mohd. Iqbal Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur
The biennial election to fill up these seats of the members, vacated due to their retirement could not be conducted before their retirement as the percentage of the local bodies/electors was less than 75% which is the requisite minimum for holding election from Local Authorities’ Constituency as per the norm specified by the Commission and upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in in Election Commission of India Vs Shivaji and Ors (AIR 1988 SCV 1).
Schedule :
Now, as per the information furnished by the CEO, Uttar Pradesh, the percentage of the local bodies/electors is more than 75%, and therefore, the Commission has decided to hold biennial election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from 35 Local Authorities’ Constituencies to fill up 36 vacated seats as per the following schedule
1 Issue of Notification 8th February, 2016 (Monday)
2 Last date of making nominations 15th February, 2016 (Monday)
3 Scrutiny of nominations 16th February, 2016 (Tuesday)
4. Last date for withdrawal of 18th February, 2016 (Thursday) candidatures
5 Date of poll 3rd March, 2016 (Thursday)
6 Hours of poll 8.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M
7 Counting of Votes 6th March, 2016 (Sunday) at 8.00AM
8 Date before which election shall be 9th March, 2016 (Wednesday) completed
The term of office of the members to be elected to the Legislative Council from the Local
Authorities’ Constituencies’ mentioned above will be subject to the decision of the Hon’ble