Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2002

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All 403 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
202 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

53.80%

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Mayawati	Rajnath Singh
Party	SP	BSP	BJP
Alliance			NDA
Leader's seat	Not Contested	Harora Jahangirganj	Haidergarh
Last election	107	66	156
Seats won	143	98	88
Seat change	36	32	68
Percentage	25.37%	23.06%	20.08%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Pramod Tiwari	Chaudhary Ajit Singh	Kalyan Singh
Party	INC	RLD	RTKP
Leader's seat	Rampur Khas	Not Contested	Atrauli
Last election	33	NC	NC
Seats won	25	14	4
Seat change	8	New	New
Percentage	8.96%	2.48%	3.38%

Chief Minister before election

Rajnath Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party

Elected Chief Minister

Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party

Rajnath Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party

Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party

Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 2002. Following a spell of 56 days of President’s Rule from 3 March to 2 May, 2002, Mayawati became Chief Minister on 3 May 2002 for the third time after the BJP extended support to the BSP. BJP state president Kalraj Mishra resigned, and was replaced by Vinay Katiyar, who thought up slogans like “Haathi nahin Ganesh hai, Brahma Vishnu Mahesh hai” to defend the alliance. But the problems kept mounting, and Mayawati resigned in August 2003.

On 29 August Mulayam was sworn in as CM with the support of BSP dissidents, and ran the government until 2007. It is said that BJP leaders convinced Vajpayee that Mulayam would help in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections — Mulayam did not, however, help, and while the NDA lost power at the Centre, the SP got 39 Lok Sabha seats, its highest ever. Some BJP leaders continue to believe that Mulayam would have been marginalised had he not been helped in 2003.

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