Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh has maximum number of parliamentary seats (80) in the Lok Sabha. Hence, the outcome of the elections from this state has a significant influence on formation of the centeral government. Uttar Pradesh has produced most number of prime ministers for India. Agriculture is the main occupation of the state and has a large industrial base. The state has an area of 2,49,928 sq km. Population of the sate is 166,052,859. It has 80 parliamentary constituencies. Principal languages of the state are Hindi and Urdu.
15th March 2012> Akhilesh Yadav sworn-in as youngest CM of Uttar Pradesh. 47 ministers take oath with him.
Capital: Lucknow
No of Parliamentary Constituencies: 80
No of Assembly Constituencies: 403
Parliamentary Constituencies
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Results General Election 2009 State : Uttar Pradesh |
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| Name of the Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won |
| National Parties | ||
| BSP | 80 | 20 |
| BJP | 71 | 10 |
| CPI | 9 | 0 |
| CPI(M) | 2 | 0 |
| INC | 69 | 21 |
| NCP | 11 | 0 |
| RJD | 0 | 0 |
| Total National Parties | 242 | 51 |
| State Parties | ||
| SP | 75 | 22 |
| Unrecognized Parties | 488 | 5 |
| IND | 563 | 1 |
| Total | 1368 | 79* |
| State Assembly Elections 2007 | |||
Party |
Contested |
Won |
VOTE* % |
| BSP | 403 | 206 | 30.43 |
| SP | 393 | 97 | 26.07 |
| BJP | 350 | 51 | 19.62 |
| INC | 393 | 22 | 8.84 |
| RLD | 254 | 10 | 5.76 |
| IND | 2581 | 9 | |
| others** | 1712 | 8 | |
| TOTAL | 6086 | 403 | |
* Percentage of votes for the AC **Others consist of all other parties who contested in the elections |
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| RULING PARTY |
| SP |
Chief Minister |
Akhilesh Yadav |
| State Government |
| State Chief Electoral Officer |
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