India, Oct. 23 -- Voting for 11 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council was held on Friday in an election being viewed as a prestige battle between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).

According to official data, voter turnout stood at 55.24% till 4 pm. The Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers' constituency recorded the highest turnout at 79.01%, followed by Bareilly-Moradabad at 73.69% and Varanasi at 68.21%.

Among the other teachers' constituencies, turnout was 63.84% in Agra, 60.80% in Meerut and 50.92% in Lucknow.

In the five graduate constituencies, Agra recorded the highest turnout at 51%, followed by Allahabad-Jhansi at 41.40%, Varanasi at 41.01%, Meerut at 39.81% and Lucknow at 38.02%.

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