Milkipur Upchunav 2025: More than 65 percent of voters exercised their franchise till 5 pm in the ongoing voting for the by-election on the Milkipur assembly seat of Uttar Pradesh. According to the Election Commission, 65 percent voting took place till 3 pm. Officials said that voting is taking place peacefully. Voting started at seven in the morning and will continue till five in the evening.

The Milkipur bypoll has become a prestige battle between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the seat is part of the politically important Ayodhya district.

There were four candidates in the fray in 2022.
Let us tell you who won the 2022 assembly elections and by how many votes. In the year 2022, there were candidates from Samajwadi Party, BJP, BSP and Congress on this seat. In the year 2022, Awadhesh Prasad of SP won this seat. He got a total of 1 lakh 3 thousand 905 votes. At the same time, Baba Gorakhnath of BJP was in second place and he got 90 thousand 567 votes. At the same time, Meera Devi of BSP got 14 thousand 427 and Neelam Kori of Congress got 3 thousand 166 votes. 

In the 2022 assembly elections, SP's Awadhesh Prasad defeated BJP's Baba Gorakhnath by 13,338 votes. When Awadhesh Prasad was elected MP from Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency on SP ticket in the 2024 elections, this seat became vacant.

BSP and Congress have not participated in this seat in the current elections. BJP has nominated Chandrabhanu Paswan and SP has nominated Ajit Prasad, son of Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad. Apart from this, Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram), the party of MP Chandrashekhar Azad, has nominated SP rebel Santosh Kumar Chaudhary from Nagina Lok Sabha seat.