Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017

Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2017

2012 ← 11 February - 8 March 2017 → 2022

All 403 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 202 seats needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Akhilesh Yadav Mayawati Not Declared Party SP BSP BJP Alliance With INC NDA Leader's seat MLC None - Last election 224, 29.13% 80, 25.91% 47, 15.00% Seats before 97 206 51   Fourth party Fifth party   Party INC RLD Alliance With SP With JD(U) Last election 28, 11.63% 9, 2.33% Seats before 22 10

Chief Minister before election Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party Elected Chief Minister TBD

Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party

TBD

The 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election will be held from February 11 to March 8, 2017 in 7 phases. In the previous election in 2012, the Samajwadi Party won a majority and formed government in the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav.

In January 2016, the Election Commission of India published updated electoral rolls in all 403 assembly segments. In July 2016, Election Commission decided to increase the number of polling booths in Uttar Pradesh for the 2017 Assembly elections. New polling centres will be planned in the constituencies having more than 1,500 registered voters as well as polling booths in six constituencies of Muzaffarnagar, Budhana, Purkazi, Khatoli, Charthawal and Midanpur to be raised from 1,769 to 1,819 booths. Voter assistance booths would be set up and photo slip of voters in a new design would be sent to them. First time, the Form-2B would contain the photograph of the candidates and their nationality.

Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be used along with EVM in 20 assembly constituencies covering 14 districts including Varanasi, Ghaziabad and Bareilly constituency.

As per the special summary revision of electoral rolls, there are a total of 14.05 crore voters in Uttar Pradesh as of January 2015.

As per 2011 census, Dalits constitute 21.1% of Uttar Pradesh population. Mallah community is divided in 27 sub-castes. Other Backward Classes (OBCs) constitute 40% of U.P population. Yadavs are biggest caste among OBCs. There are 200-odd non-Yadav OBCs in U.P. In Uttar Pradesh, Muslims are divided into 68 castes and sub-castes, 35 of them are OBCs. Forward castes constitute around 19% of Uttar Pradesh population, in which Brahmins are 10% and Thakurs are 7.6%. For accurate caste population data in India, Government of India has not publicly released Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 caste population data for every single non-SC/ST castes (General castes, OBC/EBCs) in India.

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