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Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2017

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All 403 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 202 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	61.04%1.64
Majority party Minority party Third party   File:Yogi Adityanath.png Leader Yogi Adityanath Akhilesh Yadav Mayawati Party BJP SP BSP Alliance NDA SP+INC ] Leader's seat MLC MLC - Last election 47 224 80 Seats won 325 54 19 Seat change 278 184 61 Popular vote 35,862,546 24,340,309 19,281,340 Percentage 41.35 28.07 22.23 Swing 26.35 12.71 3.68
Chief Minister before election Akhilesh Yadav SP Elected Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath BJP

The election to the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held from 11 February to 8 March 2017 in 7 phases. This election saw voter turnout of 61.04% compared to 59.40% in the previous election. Bharatiya Janata Party won this election by an overwhelming three-quarter majority of 325 seats with the help of his large number of party workers despite not projecting a chief ministerial candidate before the election. As part of its election strategy BJP contested under a collective leadership and capitalised mostly on the political clout and 'brand' of its leader, Narendra Modi. In the previous election in 2012, the Samajwadi Party had won a majority and formed government in the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav.

On March 18, 2017, Adityanath Yogi was appointed the next CM of Uttar Pradesh. UP BJP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dr. Dinesh Sharma were appointed as the Deputy CM.

Background

Electoral process changes

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 was used along with EVM in 30 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.

Caste and religion data

For accurate caste population data in India, the 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, hence no official figures are available for the same.

As per estimations based on 2011 census, Dalits constitute 21.1% of Uttar Pradesh population. Mallah community is divided in 27 sub-castes. Other Backward Classes (OBCs) constitute over 50% of Uttar Pradesh’s population. Yadavs form the single largest group amongst the OBCs, constituting around 40 percent, and forming almost 15-19 percent of the state's population. There are 200-odd 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 18-20% of Uttar Pradesh population, in which Brahmins are about 9% and Rajputs are 8%.

Schedule

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh were held between 11 February and 8 March 2017. The term of the outgoing government ended on 27 May 2017.

On 4 January 2017, The Election Commission of India announced the election schedule to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh along with the other four state (Goa, Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand) which are due for an election. The entire election is scheduled into 7 phases.

Opinion polls

Various organisations/agencies have been conducting opinions polls to predict voter intentions in the upcoming legislative assembly elections.

Exit polls and forecast

Various organisations/agencies have been conducting Exit polls to predict voter intentions in the legislative assembly elections.

Result

The election results for all 403 Legislative Assembly seats were declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 11 February – 8 March 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election results

Party		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"|	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	34,403,039	39.7	24.7	384	312	265
bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color"|	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	19,281,352	22.2	3.7	403	19	61
bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color"|	Samajwadi Party (SP)	18,923,689	22.0	7.7	298	47	177
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	Indian National Congress (INC)	5,416,324	6.2	5.4	105	7	21
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Independents (IND)	2,229,448	2.6	1.5	1462	3	11
bgcolor="Template:Rashtriya Lok Dal/meta/color"|	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)	1,545,810	1.8	0.5	131	1	8
bgcolor="Template:Apna Dal/meta/color"|	Apna Dal (Sonelal) (ADAL)	851,336	1.0	1.0	11	9	9
	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP)	607,911	0.7	0.7	8	4	4
	Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (NISHAD)	540,542	0.6	0.6	100	1	1
	Peace Party of India (PECP)	227,998	0.3	2.0	150	0	4
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)	205,232	0.2		38	0
	Lok Dal (LD)	181,704	0.2	0.1	81	0
	Bahujan Mukti Party (BMUP)	152,844	0.2	0.2	182	0
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color"|	Communist Party of India (CPI)	138,763	0.2		90	0
	Mahan Dal (MD)	96,087	0.1	0.8	14	0
bgcolor="Template:Shiv Sena/meta/color"|	Shiv Sena (SS)	88,595	0.1	0.7	150	0
	Other parties	1,080,007	1.2	7.3	1643	0	3
	None of the above (NOTA)	757,643	0.9	0.9	—
Total		86,728,324	100.00			403	±0

List of winning candidates

Reactions

After the BJP emerged as the majority party in the election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the public in a tweet saying, "Gratitude to the people of India for the continued faith, support and affection for the BJP. This is very humbling & overwhelming." The BJP's UP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya attributed the victory to Modi saying, "It is a Modi wave. The wave which started with 2014 Lok Sabha elections is continuing in 2017 and the momentum will go beyond the 2019 general elections." Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi sent a tweet to Modi congratulating him for his party's victory, to which Modi replied, "Thank you. Long live democracy!" Modi was congratulated on the victory by U.S. President Donald Trump during a telephone conversation on 27 March 2017.

The BBC wrote that the BJP "appears to have successfully forged a coalition of upper, middle-ranking and lower castes to be able to manipulate the social arithmetic of Indian elections". It also noted that the party had been able to avoid the image of "doling out reckless patronage to a caste or group", which the BBC considered responsible for the SP's defeat. Bhanu Joshi of Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research said, "He has managed to go beyond the caste arithmetic. On the ground, the BJP is not perceived as a casteist party."

Political scientist Milan Vaishnav felt that the election "represents a referendum on demonetisation". Vaishnav said, "Whether voters were bothered by the implementation of the policy or not, they clearly have decided that the PM is a man of action."

BSP Leader and former Chief Minister Mayavati claimed that the BJP tampered with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) thereby rigging the election outcome. However, this charge was rejected by the Election Commission as well as other parties as lacking any substance.

Political analyst and author Shantanu Gupta wrote in his famous article in Swarajyamag, that Whoever Wins On 11 March, Beware, UP Is A Big, Big Mess. In this article Shantanu said that only five countries in the world have population larger than that of Uttar Pradesh. With close to 200 million people, the state accounts for 16.5 per cent of India’s population, but contributes only 8.5 per cent to the gross domestic product (GDP). In contrast, Gujarat accounts for 5 per cent of the country’s population and contributes 7.5 per cent to the GDP. This clearly shows how Uttar Pradesh eats into India’s resources, rather than contributing to it.

See also

• 2017 elections in India

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