Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh

Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP is the affiliate of Bharatiya Janata Party for the state of Uttar Pradesh. Its head office is situated at the BJP Bhavan, 7, Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow.

Bharatiya Janata Party
Uttar Pradesh
AbbreviationBJP
LeaderYogi Adityanath
(Chief Minister)
PresidentSwatantra Dev Singh
General SecretarySunil Bansal
Founded6 April 1980 (1980-04-06)
HeadquartersBJP Bhawan, 7, Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow - 226 001, Uttar Pradesh
Colours  Saffron
ECI StatusNational Party
Seats in Lok Sabha
62 / 80
(as of 2022)
Seats in Rajya Sabha
22 / 31
(as of 2022)
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
255 / 403
(as of 2022)
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
68 / 100
(as of 2022)
Website
up.bjp.org

Electoral History

Legislative Assembly election
Year Seats won Change in seats Percentage of votes Vote swing Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1952
2 / 430
 2 6.45% – Opposition
1957
17 / 430
 15 9.84% 3.39% Opposition
1962
49 / 430
 32 16.64% 6.80% Opposition
1967
98 / 425
 49 21.67% 5.03% Opposition, later Government
1969
49 / 425
 49 17.93% 3.74% Opposition, later Government
1974
61 / 425
 12 17.12% 0.81% Opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980
11 / 425
 11 10.76% – Opposition
1985
16 / 425
 5 9.83% 0.93% Opposition
1989
57 / 425
 41 11.61% 1.78% Outside support to Janata Dal
1991
221 / 425
 164 31.45% 19.84% Government
1993
177 / 425
 44 33.30% 1.85% Opposition
1996
174 / 425
 3 32.52% 0.48% Government
2002
88 / 403
 86 20.08% 12.44% Government, later Opposition
2007
51 / 403
 37 16.97% 3.11% Opposition
2012
47 / 403
 4 15% 1.97% Opposition
2017
312 / 403
 265 39.67% 24.67% Government
2022
255 / 403
 57 41.3% 1.63% Government

Lok Sabha election
Year Seats won Change in seats Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1952
0 / 86
 – Opposition
1957
1 / 86
 1 Opposition
1962
7 / 86
 6 Opposition
1967
12 / 85
 5 Opposition
1971
4 / 85
 8 Opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980
0 / 85
 – Opposition
1984
0 / 85
 – Opposition
1989
8 / 85
 8 Outside support to National Front
1991
51 / 85
 43 Opposition
1996
52 / 85
 1 Government, later Opposition
1998
59 / 85
 7 Government
1999
29 / 85
 30 Government
2004
10 / 80
 19 Opposition
2009
10 / 80
 – Opposition
2014
71 / 80
 61 Government
2019
62 / 80
 9 Government

Leadership

Chief Minister
No Portrait Name Constituency Term of Office Tenure Assembly
1 Kalyan Singh Atrauli 24 June 1991 6 December 1992 3 years, 217 days 11th
21 September 1997 12 November 1999 13th
2 Ram Prakash Gupta MLC 12 November 1999 28 October 2000 351 days
3 Rajnath Singh Haidergarh 28 October 2000 7 March 2002 1 year, 130 days
4 Yogi Adityanath MLC 19 March 2017 25 March 2022 5 years, 46 days 17th
Gorakhpur Urban 25 March 2022 Incumbent 18th

Deputy Chief Minister
No Portrait Name Term of Office Tenure Assembly Chief Minister
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1 Ram Prakash Gupta 3 April 1967 25 February 1968 328 days 4th Charan Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party
1 Dinesh Sharma 19 March 2017 25 March 2022 5 years, 6 days 17th Yogi Adityanath
Keshav Prasad Maurya 19 March 2017 25 March 2022 5 years, 46 days
25 March 2022 Incumbent 18th
2 Brajesh Pathak 25 March 2022 Incumbent 40 days

Leaders of the Opposition
No Portrait Name Term of Office Assembly Chief Minister
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1 Yadavendra Dutt Dubey 28 March 1962 2 February 1964 1 year, 311 days 3rd Chandra Bhanu Gupta
Sucheta Kripalani
2 Sharda Bhakt Singh 2 February 1964 2 April 1965 1 year, 59 days
3 Madhav Prasad Tripathi 2 April 1965 9 March 1967 1 year, 341 days
Bharatiya Janata Party
1 Kalyan Singh 4 July 1993 12 June 1995 1 year, 343 days 12th Mulayam Singh Yadav
2 Lalji Tandon 7 September 2003 13 May 2007 3 years, 248 days 14th

President
No Party leader Period Duration
1 Madhav Prasad Tripathi 1980 1984 4 years
2 Kalyan Singh 1984 1990 6 years
3 Kalraj Mishra 1991 1997 6 years
4 Rajnath Singh 25-Mar-1997 03-Jan-2000 2 years, 284 days
5[1] Om Prakash Singh 03-Jan-2000 17-Aug-2000 227 days
(3)[2] Kalraj Mishra 17-Aug-2000 24-Jun-2002 1 year, 311 days
6[3] Vinay Katiyar 24-Jun-2002 18-Jul-2004 2 years, 24 days
7[4] Keshari Nath Tripathi 18-Jul-2004 03-Sept-2007 3 years, 47 days
8[5] Ramapati Ram Tripathi 03-Sept-2007 12-May-2010 2 years, 251 days
9[6] Surya Pratap Shahi 12-May-2010 13-Apr-2012 1 year, 337 days
10[7] Laxmikant Bajpai 13-Apr-2012 08-Apr-2016 3 years, 361 days
11[8] Keshav Prasad Maurya 08-Apr-2016 31-Aug-2017 1 year, 145 days
12[9] Mahendra Nath Pandey 31-Aug-2017 16-Jul-2019 1 year, 319 days
13[10] Swatantra Dev Singh 16-Jul-2019 Incumbent 2 years, 292 days

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