Elections in Uttar Pradesh

Election to legislative assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh is held every five years and conducted by Election commission of India whereas the election to local bodies of Uttar pradesh is conducted by the Election Commission of Uttar pradesh.^[1] Parliamentary constituencies and Legislative assembly constituencies are also called "Lok sabha seats" and "Vidhan sabha seats" respectively. There are 80 parliamentary constituencies^[2] and 403 legislative assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The state has seen 17 Vidhan Sabha elections and 16 Lok Sabha elections since independence.^[3]

In India, elections to parliamentary constituencies and legislative assembly constituencies are conducted by Election Commission of India^[4] and elections to local bodies are conducted by the election commission of the respective state. It is the Election Commission of India who decides the delimitation (the redrawing of the boundaries of parliamentary or assembly constituencies to make sure that there are, as nearly as practicable, the same number of people in each constituency), reservation of seats and system of election with respect to parliamentary and assembly constituency elections.^[5]

Vidhan Sabha elections

Uttar Pradesh has 403 assembly constituencies. The Chief Minister of the state is elected by legislators of the political party or coalition commanding an assembly majority, and serves a five-year term with a provision of re-election. The Governor is the head of state, but his or her role is largely ceremonial.

List of legislative assembly constituencies

Every parliamentary constituency is composed of multiple state assembly constituencies.^[6] And electoral boundaries are different from administrative boundaries. For instance, electoral boundary of Agra parliamentary constituency is different from the district (administrative) boundary of Agra. Main: List of Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh

List of legislative assembly elections

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Lok Sabha elections

The Lok Sabha is the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of India. As of 2019 there have been seventeen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India. Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies.

List of Constituencies

Partywise results

Uttar Pradesh parliamentary seats results^[19]

#	Lok sabha election Year	Total Seats	INC	BJP	Others	PM elect	PM's Party
1		86	81[20]		Party Name Seats won SP 2 HMS 1 IND 2	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC
2		86	72[21]	-	Party name Seats won PSP 4 BJS 1 CPI 1 IND 8
3		86[22]	62	-	Party name Seats won JS 7 IND 5 SWA 3 REP 3 PSP 2 CPI 2 HMS 1 SOC 1
4		85	48	-	Party name Seats won JS 12 SSP 8 IND 7 CPI 5 PSP 2 CPM 1 RPI 1 SWA 1	Indira Gandhi	INC
5		85	73	-	Party name Seats won BJS 4 CPI 3 IND 2 Others 1 NCO 1 BKD 1
6		85	-	-	Party name Seats won JP 85	Morarji Desai	JP
7		85	50	-	Party name Seats won JNP(S) 29 Others 6	Indira Gandhi	INC
8		85	83	-	Party name Seats won LKD 2	Rajiv Gandhi
9		85	15	8	Party name Seats won JD 54 BssP 2 CPI 2 IND 2 HMS 1 CPM 1	V. P. Singh	JD
10		85	5	51	Party name Seats won JD 22 JP 4 BSP 1 CPI 1	P. V. Narasimha Rao	INC
11		85	5	52	Party name Seats won SP 16 BSP 6 AIIC(T) 2 JD 2 IND 1 SAP 1	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	BJP
12		85	-	59	Party name Seats won SP 19 BSP 4 SAP 2 IND 1 SJP(R) 1
13		85	10	29	Party name Seats won SP 35 BSP 14 AIIC(T) 2 RLD 2 IND 1 SJP(R) 1
14		80	9	10	Party name Seats won SP 35 BSP 19 RLD 3 IND 1 JD(U) 1 NLP 1 SJP(R) 1	Manmohan Singh	INC
15		80	22	10	Party name Seats won SP 22 BSP 20 RLD 5 IND 1
16		80	2	71	Party Name Seats won SP 5 AD(S) 2	Narendra Modi	BJP
17		80	1	62	Party Name Seats won BSP 10 SP 5 AD(S) 2

Table of Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha results

See also

• List Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections

References

External links

• Election Commission of India
• Information About Uttar Pradesh Elections