Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2017

Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election, 2017

2012 ← 11 February - 8 March 2017 → 2022

All 403 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly 202 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Third party Leader Akhilesh Yadav Mayawati Not Declared Party SP BSP BJP Alliance With INC NDA Leader's seat MLC None - Last election 224, 29.13% 80, 25.91% 47, 15.00% Seats before 97 206 51 Fourth party Fifth party Party INC RLD Alliance With SP With JD(U) Last election 28, 11.63% 9, 2.33% Seats before 22 10

Chief Minister before election Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party Elected Chief Minister TBD

The 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election will be held from February 11 to March 8, 2017 in 7 phases. In the previous election in 2012, the Samajwadi Party won a majority and formed government in the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav.

Contents

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·         1Background

o    1.1Electoral process changes

o    1.2Caste and religion data

·         2Election issues

·         3Schedule

·         4Opinion polls

·         5Result

·         6See also

·         7References

·         8External links

Background

Electoral process changes

In January 2016, the Election Commission of India published updated electoral rolls in all 403 assembly segments.^[1] 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 will be used along with EVM in 60 assembly constituencies covering 14 districts including Varanasi, Ghaziabadand Bareilly constituency.

Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh having VVPAT facility with EVMs[9]
Lucknow West	Lucknow North	Lucknow East	Agra Cantonment
Agra South	Aligarh	Bareilly	Govind Nagar
Arya Nagar	Ghaziabad	Meerut	Moradabad
Saharanpur Nagar	Allahabad North	Allahabad South	Ayodhya
Gorakhpur Urban	Jhansi Nagar	Varanasi North	Varanasi Cantonment

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

Final voters list for Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election 2017
S.No	Group of voters	Voters population
1	Male	7.7 crore
2	Female	6.3 crore
3	Third Gender	6,983
Total Voters		14.05 crore

Caste and religion data

As per 2011 census, Dalits constitute 21.1% of Uttar Pradesh population. Mallah community is divided in 27 sub-castes. Other Backward Classes (OBCs) constitute 40% of U.P population. Yadavs are biggest caste among OBCs. There are 200-odd non-Yadav 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 19% of Uttar Pradesh population in which Brahmins are 10% and Thakurs are 7.6%. For accurate caste population data in India, 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.

Castes of Uttar Pradesh [28][29][30][31][32]
Caste	Population (%)	Notes
OBC	40%	Yadavs -8% Lodhi -7% Jats -1.7% Gurjar -1.3% KUSHWAHA(MAURYA, SHAKYA, KOERI, KACHHI, SAINI) -4% Kurmi - 3% Other OBCs(including Sunars, other Hindu OBCs) -16%
Dalits(SCs)	21.1%	Jatavs Dalits -11% Non-Jatav Dalits(includes Pasis, Mallah and Valmikis) -9%
Tribals (STs)	0.1%
Forward caste	22%	Brahmins -10% Thakur - 8% Vaishya - 2% Khatri,Kayastha,Tyagi and Bhumihar -2%
Muslims	19.3%
Christians	0.18%

Election issues

The most important issue is said to be law and order of the state and as in every election caste and religion will play the key reasons for voters However, the Supreme Court ruled that prohibited use of religion, caste or language to solicit votes and forbade candidates from communal politics

Schedule

Election schedule

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held between 11 February to 8 March 2017. The term of the present government will end 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.

Phase	Name of District	No. of Assembly Constituencies
Phase-1 (11 February 2017)	Shamli	3
	Muzaffarnagar	6
	Baghpat	3
	Meerut	7
	Ghaziabad	5
	Gautam Buddha Nagar	3
	Hapur	3
	Bulandshahar	7
	Aligarh	7
	Mathura	5
	Hathras	3
	Agra	9
	Firozabad	5
	Etha	4
	Kasganj	3
Phase-2 (15 February 2017)	Saharanpur	7
	Bijnor	8
	Moradabad	6
	Sambhal	4
	Rampur	5
	Bareilly	9
	Amroha	4
	Pilibhit	4
	Kheri	8
	Shahjahanpur	6
	Badaun	6
Phase-3 (19 February 2017)	Farrukhabad	4
	Hardoi	8
	Kannauj	3
	Mainpuri	4
	Etawah	3
	Auraiya	3
	Kanpur Dehat	4
	Kanpur Nagar	10
	Unnao	6
	Lucknow	9
	Barabanki	6
	Sitapur	9
Phase-4 (23 February 2017)	Pratapgarh	7
	Kaushambi	3
	Allahabad	12
	Jalaun	3
	Jhansi	4
	Lalitpur	2
	Mahoba	2
	Hamirpur	2
	Banda	4
	Chitrakoot	2
	Fatehpur	6
	Rae Bareli	6
Phase-5 (27 February 2017)	Balrampur	4
	Gonda	7
	Faizabad	5
	Ambedkar Nagar	5
	Bahraich	7
	Shrawasti	2
	Siddharthnagar	5
	Basti	5
	Sant Kabir Nagar	3
	Amethi	4
	Sultanpur	5
Phase-6 (4 March 2017)	Maharajganj	5
	Kushi Nagar	7
	Gorakhpur	9
	Deoria	7
	Azamgarh	10
	Mau	4
	Ballia	7
Phase-7 (8 March 2017)	Ghazipur	7
	Varanasi	8
	Chandauli	5
	Mirzapur	4
	Bhadohi	3
	Sonbhadra	4
	Jaunpur	9