It's vote share of 28.6 per cent was still comfortably ahead of the SP's 21.7 per cent but the gap was nothing like in the mayoral contests. A regional analysis of the nagar palika parishad presidents' contests throws up more pointers to the challenges for the BJP in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In the nagar panchayats, BJP won only 100 of the 438 presidents' posts, independents picking up 182. BJP's share of seats in the members of the two lower tiers, nagar palika parishad and nagar panchayats, is even less than in the heads of these bodies. Only one in eight elected nagar panchayats members and about one in six nagar palika parishad members is from the party.

Source: Times of India December 04, 2017 00:00 UTC