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Elections to the Upper House, as you know are very different from those to the Lower one. 8) As mentioned earlier, the UP Vidhan Sabha has 403 MLAs and in these 11 Rajya Sabha seats; the magic number is 34 votes to get elected. 10) Now let’s see the current strength of different parties in Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha to understand the calculation: So, you can see that only Mayawati has fielded two candidates as per her party strength and has 12 ‘surplus’ votes. The ruling Samajwadi Party can get six of its candidates ‘clear’ with the first preference votes and is just nine short of getting its seventh candidate elected. What if even after ‘cross-voting’, neither Sibal nor Mahapatra manage to get 34 “first preference” votes?

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