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Notification for biennial elections for the 10 RS and 11 Legislative Council seats in UP issued

Lucknow, Sep 29 (UNI) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued a notification for biennial polls for 10 seats of the Rajya Sabha and 11 State Legislative Council seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh, Navdeep Rinwa, here informed that the term of the members of the 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh expires on November 25, 2026.
As per the schedule announced by the Commission, the notification for the elections the last date for filing nominations will be October 6, scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on October 7, and candidates can withdraw their nominations until October 9.
Rinwa informed that voting will take place on Friday, October 16. Voting is scheduled from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and counting of votes will begin at 5:00 PM on the same day. The election process will be completed by October 19, 2026.
Similarly, the term of office of the members elected from the 5 Graduate constituencies and 6 from Teacher constituencies of the UP Legislative Council expires on December 6, 2026.
The last date for filing nominations for the Council seats is October 6, scrutiny of nomination papers is October 7 and the last date for withdrawal is October 9. The polling will be held on October 23 and counting of votes on October 27.
The retiring members for the Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh include Arun Singh, Geeta alias Chandraprabha, Neeraj Shekhar, Brijlal, Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav, Ramji Lal, B.L. Verma, Seema Dwivedi, Dr Dinesh Sharma (vacant from September 11, 2026), and Hardeep Singh Puri.
The 11 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and the retiring elected members are: Avnish Kumar Singh from Lucknow Division Graduate constituency, Ashutosh Sinha from the Varanasi Graduate Division, Dr Manvendra Pratap Singh 'Guru Ji' from the Agra Graduate Division, Dinesh Kumar Goyal from the Meerut Graduate Division, Dr. Man Singh Yadav from the Allahabad-Jhansi Graduate Division, Umesh Dwivedi from the Lucknow Teacher Division, Lal Bihari Yadav from the Varanasi Teacher Division, Dr. Akash Agarwal (Unaided) from the Agra Teacher Division, Shrichand Sharma from the Meerut Teacher Division, Hari Singh Dhillon from the Bareilly-Moradabad Teacher Division, Dhruv Kumar Tripathi from the Gorakhpur-Faizabad Teacher Division.
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