The NDA won 15 of the 28 MLC seats across Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka, while the INDIA bloc secured 10. The BJP won 13 seats, but results in Nagpur, Varanasi, Lucknow and Patna have sparked a political debate over the party's performance in key strongholds. The Samajwadi Party retained both Varanasi seats and wrested the Lucknow graduates' seat from the BJP, while the Congress won a seat in Nagpur.