Elections in Uttar Pradesh 2014

Uttar Pradesh is one of the largest state of India. The capital city is Lucknow. The General elections will take place during the 6th phase from 10th April. Uttar Pradesh has given largest number of members to the parliament. Five prime ministers were chosen from this state itself.

 

Uttar Pradesh General Elections – 2014

The date and schedule for the General Elections in Uttarakhand are as below:

Phase 3A
No of PCs going to poll 10	(PC no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
Issue of Notification	15 Mar 14 (Sat)
Last Date for filing Nominations	22 Mar 14 (Sat)
Scrutiny of Nominations	24 Mar 14 (Mon)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	26 Mar 14 (Wed)
Date of Poll	10 Apr 14 (Thu)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be completed	28 May 14 (Wed)
Phase 5
No of PCs going to poll 11	(PC no. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
Issue of Notification	19 Mar 14 (Wed)
Last Date for filing Nominations	26 Mar 14 (Wed)
Scrutiny of Nominations	27 Mar 14 (Thu)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	29 Mar 14 (Sat)
Date of Poll	17 Apr 14 (Thu)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be Completed	28 May 14 (Wed)
Phase 6
No of PCs going to poll 12	(PC no. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 31, 40, 41, 42, 44)
Issue of Notification	29 Mar 14 (Sat)
Last Date for filing Nominations	05 Apr 14 (Sat)
Scrutiny of Nominations	07 Apr 14 (Mon)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	09 Apr 14 (Wed)
Date of Poll	24 Apr 14 (Thu)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be completed	28 May 14 (Wed)
Phase 7
No of PCs going to poll 14	(PC no. 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53)
Issue of Notification	02 Apr 14 (Wed)
Last Date for filing Nominations	09 Apr 14 (Wed)
Scrutiny of Nominations	10 Apr 14 (Thu)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	12 Apr 14 (Sat)
Date of Poll	30 Apr 14 (Wed)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be completed	28 May 14 (Wed)
Phase 8
No of PCs going to poll 15	(PC no. 37, 38, 39, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 78)
Issue of Notification	12 Apr 14 (Sat)
Last Date for filing Nominations	19 Apr 14 (Sat)
Scrutiny of Nominations	21 Apr 14 ( Mon)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	23 Apr 14 (Wed)
Date of Poll	07 May 14 (Wed)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be completed	28 May 14 (Wed)
Phase 9
No of PCs going to poll 18	(PC no. 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80)
Issue of Notification	17 Apr 14 (Thu)
Last Date for filing Nominations	24 Apr 14 (Thu)
Scrutiny of Nominations	25 Apr 14 (Fri)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	28 Apr 14 (Mon)
Date of Poll	12 May 14 (Mon)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be Completed	28 May 14 (Wed)

 

Political Parties of the state

The Indian National Congress
The Bharatiya Janata party
The Bahujan Samaj Party
Rashtriya Lok Dal
The Communist party of India
The Samajwadi Party

 

Administration Process

The state of Uttar Pradesh is governed by the state government headed by chief minister. The constitutional head of the state is Governor and he is appointed by the President of India. His term consist of five years. For better administration the state is divided into 75 districts. Uttar Pradesh has bicameral Legislature and consists of Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council.

 

History of Lok Sabha General Elections

Year of General Elections Uttar pradesh	Lok Sabha	Winning Party/Coalition
1951	First Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1957	Second Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1962	Third Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1967	Fourth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1971	Fifth Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress
1977	Sixth Lok Sabha	Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD)
1980	Seventh Lok Sabha	Indian National Congress (Indira)
1984	Eighth Lok Sabha	Indian National congress
1989	Ninth Lok Sabha	Janata Dal (JD)
1991	Tenth Lok Sabha	BJP
1996	Eleventh Lok Sabha	BJP
1998	Twelfth Lok Sabha	BJP
1999	Thirteenth Lok Sabha	BSP, SP
2004	Fourteenth Lok Sabha	Samajwadi party
2009	Fifteenth Lok Sabha	Samajwadi Party

History of State Assembly Election

Year of Election	Vidhan Sabha	Winning Party/Alliance	Chief Minister
1951	First	INC	Shri Govind Ballabh Pant
1957	Second	INC INC	Shri Sampoornananda , Shri Chandrabahanu Gupta
1962	Third	INC	Shri Chandrabhanu Gupta, Smt Sucheta Kriplani
1967	Fourth	BLD INC	Shri Charan Singh, Shri Chandrabhanu Gupta
1969	Fifth	INC BLD INC INC	Shri Chandrabhanu Gupta, Shri Charan Singh, Shri T N Singh, Pt Kamlapati tripathi
1974	Sixth	INC INC	Shri Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, Shri N D Tiwari
1977	Seventh	Janata Party Janata Party	Shri Ram Naresh Yadav, Shri Banarasi Das
1980	Eighth	INC INC	Shri V P Singh, Shri Sripati Misra
1985	Ninth	INC INC	Shri N D Tiwari, Shri Vir Bahadur Singh
1989	Tenth	Samajwadi Party	Shri Mulayam Singh
1991	Eleventh	BJP Alliance	Shri Kalyan Singh
1993	Twelfth	Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj party alliance BSP	Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ms Mayawati
1996	Thirteenth	BJP alliance BJP alliance BJP alliance BJP-BSP	Shri Kalyan Singh, Shri Ram Prakash Gupta, Shri Rajnath Singh, Ms Mayawati
2002	Fourteenth	BJP-BSP SP	Ms Mayawati, Shri Mulayam singh Yadav
2007	Fifteenth	BSP	Ms Mayawati
2012	Sixteenth	SP	Shri Akhilesh Yadav