2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

2012 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election

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All 403 assembly constituencies
Turnout59.40% Increase 13.44%
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Mayawati
Party SP BSP
Alliance - -
Leader since 1992 1995
Leader's seat didn't stand MLC
Seats before 97 206
Seats won 224 80
Seat change Increase127 Decrease126
Popular vote 22,090,571 19,647,303
Percentage 29.15% 25.91%
Swing Increase 3.72% Decrease 4.52%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Uma Bharti Raj Babbar
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 2012 2009
Leader's seat Charkhari Did not contest
Seats before 51 22
Seats won 47 28
Seat change Decrease4 Increase6
Popular vote 11,371,080 8,832,895[1]
Percentage 15.00% 11.63%
Swing Decrease 1.97% Increase 3.04%

  Fifth party
 
Leader Ajit Singh
Party RLD
Alliance UPA
Leader since 1996
Leader's seat Did not contest
Seats before 10
Seats won 9
Seat change Decrease1
Popular vote 1,763,354
Percentage 2.33%
Swing Decrease 1.37%

Seatwise Result Map of the election

Structure of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after the election

Chief Minister before election

Mayawati
BSP

Elected Chief Minister

Akhilesh Yadav
SP

The 2012 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election followed as a result the expiration of the five-year term of the previous legislature elected in Uttar Pradesh, India. The election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held in seven phases from 8 February through 3 March 2012. Uttar Pradesh has the world's largest population for a sub-national democracy. The incumbent chief minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, which previously won an absolute majority of seats, was defeated by Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, which gained an absolute majority in the election. Mulayam's son and Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav was nominated as chief minister by the party.[2]

  1. ^ "Uttar Pradesh 2012 - Uttar Pradesh - Election Commission of India". Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Samajwadi Party announces Akhilesh Yadav as the new chief minister of UP". The Times of India. 10 March 2012. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.