Counting of votes begun in 11 UP Legislative Council seats: Results expected by late evening

Lucknow, Oct 27 (UNI) Counting of votes for 11 Legislative Council seats in Uttar Pradesh commenced on Tuesday morning, amid tight security arrangements. UP Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa said that the counting of votes for the five graduate and six teacher constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council started at six places - Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Meerut, Jhansi, Bareilly, and Gorakhpur at 8 am on Tuesday. A total of 152 candidates are in the fray when 55.24 % of voters of the total 14.81 lakh voters used their franchise during polling on October 23. The polling was held…