2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

2022 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election

February – March 2022
All 403 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 202 seats needed for a majority
Leader Yogi Adityanath Akhilesh Yadav Mayawati Party BJP SP BSP Alliance NDA SP+ Independent Leader since 2017 2012 1995 Leader's seat TBD TBD Not Contesting Last election 39.67%, 312 seats 21.82%, 47 seats 22.23%, 19 seats Current seats 304 49 15   Leader Priyanka Gandhi Party INC Alliance UPA Leader since 2019 Leader's seat TBD Last election 6.25%, 7 seats Current seats 7
Constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath BJP

Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Uttar Pradesh in month of February to March 2022 to elect 403 members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The term of current assembly elected in 2017 will expire on 14 May 2022.

Controversies

Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav, who was also the former CM of UP till 2017, made a statement that, UP is in need of a "Yogya sarkar [ideal government] and not "Yogi sarkar [ Yogi government]". He also took a jibe at present CM of UP and said that the chief minister of the state does not even know how to operate a laptop. He also mentioned how inflation and unemployment has become a huge issue.

SP stated that the Purvanchal Expressway was a part of Akhilesh Yadav govt's plan and shared a picture of the project's foundation ceremony. SP accused BJP for taking credits of the projects initiated by SP. Welcoming the new highway, the SP workers cycled to the expressway and showered flowers. Later on the same day, on 16th November 2021, PM Modi inaugurated the expressway. It's worth mentioning, that most of the Land Acquisition work, and 100% Physical Construction were done under the rule of the incumbent CM Yogi Adityanath. Yogi Adityanath also initiated new expressway projects like Bundelkhand expressway, Ganga expressway and Gorakpur Link expressway

Priyanka Gandhi has started this conference in uttar pradesh. The communication has been established with 7400 office bearers. This time in the UP elections, Priyanka Gandhi has taken the responsibility of capturing power for the Congress. She is also constantly touring the states and addressing every issue. Door-to-door pledges are being taken.

Background

The tenure of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 14 May 2022. The previous assembly elections were held in February - March 2017. After the election, Bharatiya Janata Party formed the state government, with Yogi Adityanath becoming Chief Minister.

Schedule

The schedule will be announced by the Election Commission.

Poll event	Schedule
Notification date	TBD
Last Date for filing nomination	TBD
Scrutiny of nomination	TBD
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	TBD
Date of poll	TBD
Date of counting of votes	TBD

Parties and Alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color;color:white"|1.	Bharatiya Janata Party			Yogi Adityanath		TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Apna Dal (Sonelal)/meta/color;color:white"|2.	Apna Dal (Sonelal)		File:Election Symbol Cup & Saucer.png	Anupriya Patel	File:Health minister anupriya patel.jpg	TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:NISHAD Party/meta/color;color:white"|3.	NISHAD Party			Sanjay Nishad		TBD	TBD	TBD

  Samajwadi Party+

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color;color:white"|1.	Samajwadi Party	File:Samajwadi Party Flag.jpg		Akhilesh Yadav		TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Rashtriya Lok Dal/meta/color;color:white"|2.	Rashtriya Lok Dal	File:Rashtriya Lok Dal Flag image.png		Jayant Chaudhary	File:Chaudhary Jayant Singh.jpg	36	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Aam Aadmi Party/meta/color;color:white"|3.	Aam Aadmi Party			Sanjay Singh		TBD	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party/meta/color;color:white" ! |4.	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party		File:Election Symbol Walking Stick.png	Om Prakash Rajbhar	File:Om Prakash Rajbhar.jpg	8	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Apna Dal/meta/color;color:white" |5.	Apna Dal			Krishna Patel		TBD	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Mahan Dal/meta/color;color:white" |6.	Mahan Dal			Keshav Dev Maurya		TBD	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color;color:white" |7.	Rashtriya Janata Dal			Tejashwi Yadav	File:Tejashwi Yadav rjd.jpg	TBD	TBD	TBD
8.	Janvadi Party (Socialist)			Sanjay Chauhan		TBD	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color;color:white" |9.	Nationalist Congress Party					TBD	TBD	TBD

  Bahujan Samaj Party

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color;color:white"|1.	Bahujan Samaj Party			Mayawati		403	TBD	TBD

  United Progressive Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;color:white"|1.	Indian National Congress			Priyanka Gandhi		403	242	161

On 19 October 2021 Uttar Pradesh congress leader Priyanka Gandhi announced 40% of tickets to women in upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Others

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats Contested	Male Candidates	Female Candidates
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color;color:white"|1.	All India Trinamool Congress			Neeraj Rai		TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Shiv Sena/meta/color;color:white"|2.	Shiv Sena			Uddhav Thackeray		403	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color;color:white" ! |3.	Communist Party of India			Girish Sharma		TBD	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color;color:white" ! |4.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Hira Lal Yadav		TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color;color:white"|5.	Janata Dal (United)					TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)/meta/color;color:white"|6.	Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)			Raghuraj Pratap Singh	File:Raghuraj Pratap Singhji.jpg	TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen/meta/color;color:white"|7.	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen			Shaukat Ali	File:Shaukat Ali profile.jpg	100	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)/meta/color;color:white"| 8.	Jan Adhikar Party			Babu Singh Kushwaha		TBD	TBD	TBD
style="text-align:center; background:Template:Vikassheel Insaan Party/meta/color;color:white" ! |9.	Vikassheel Insaan Party	File:Vikassheel Insaan Party.jpg	File:Chunav Chinh.png	Mukesh Sahani	File:Mukesh Sahani.png	TBD	TBD	TBD
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)/meta/color;color:white"|10.	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)			Chirag Paswan		TBD	TBD	TBD
11.	Azad Samaj Party			Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan		TBD	TBD	TBD

Surveys and polls

Opinion Polls

Date Published	Polling agency	style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"|	style="background:Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color"|	style="text-align:center; background:Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color"|	style="text-align:center; background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"|	style="background:gray;Template:Other/meta/color"|	Lead
		NDA	SP+	BSP	UPA	Others
12 November 2021	ABP-CVoter	213-221	152-160	16-20	6-10	2-6	53-69
		40.7%	31.1%	15.1%	8.9%	4.2%	9.6%
8 October 2021	ABP-CVoter	241-249	130-138	15-19	3-7	0-4	103-119
		41.3%	32.4%	14.7%	5.6%	6.0%	8.9%
3 September 2021	ABP-CVoter	259-267	109-117	12-16	3-7	6-10	142-158
		41.8%	30.2%	15.7%	5.1%	7.2%	11.6%
18 March 2021	ABP-CVoter	284-294	54-64	33-43	1-7	10-16	220-240
		41.0%	24.4%	20.8%	5.9%	7.9%	16.6%

Survey conducted by ABP News- C Voter which garnered 12984 responses, most respondents rated the overall performance of Adityanath as the Chief Minister as Good (41.5 per cent). However, this was closely followed by those who termed his performance as Poor (37.4 per cent) while 21.1 per cent called it to be Average. On who is their most preferable candidate to be the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, most respondents said Yogi Adityanath (42.8 per cent), followed by Akhilesh Yadav (32.2 per cent), and Mayawati (15.4 per cent). Priyanka Gandhi at 3.6 per cent and RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary at 1.6 per cent did not appear to have wooed the people as much as their respective parties would have expected. 4.4 per cent, meanwhile, opted for Others.

See also

• 2022 elections in India
• Elections in Uttar Pradesh
• United Democratic Alliance (Uttar Pradesh)
• Lakhimpur Kheri incident
• 2021 elections in India