Bharatiya Janata Party – Uttar Pradesh
Bharatiya Janata Party – Uttar Pradesh भारतीय जनता पार्टी - उत्तर प्रदेश | |
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| Abbreviation | BJP |
| Leader | Yogi Adityanath (Chief Minister) |
| President | Pankaj Chaudhary |
| General Secretary | Dharam Pal Singh |
| Founder | |
| Founded | 6 April 1980 |
| Headquarters | BJP Bhawan, 7, Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow - 226 001, Uttar Pradesh |
| Newspaper | Kamal Sandesh |
| Youth wing | Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha |
| Women's wing | BJP Mahila Morcha |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing[13] to far-right[a] |
| Colours | Saffron |
| ECI status | National Party[17] |
| Alliance | |
| Seats in Rajya Sabha | 25 / 31
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| Seats in Lok Sabha | 33 / 80
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| Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council | 79 / 100
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| Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | 258 / 403
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| Election symbol | |
Lotus | |
| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
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Bharatiya Janata Party – Uttar Pradesh, or, (BJP Uttar Pradesh) is the affiliate of Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Its head office is situated at the BJP Bhavan, 7, Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow.
Electoral history
Lok Sabha election
| Year | Seats won | +/- | 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 JD |
| 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 |
| 2024 | 33 / 80 |
29 |
Government |
Vidhan Sabha election
| Year | Seats won | +/- | Voteshare (%) |
+/- (%) |
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 JD |
| 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 |
Leadership
| S.No. | Portrait | Name (born /death) |
Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
BJP Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh  | |||||||||
| 1 |  |
Kalyan Singh (Born 5 Jan 1932 – Died 21 Aug 2021) |
Atrauli | 24 June 1991 | 6 December 1992 | 3 years, 217 days | 11th | ||
| 21 September 1997 | 12 November 1999 | 13th | |||||||
| 2 | .jpg) |
Ram Prakash Gupta (Born 26 Oct 1923 – Died 1 May 2004[18]) |
MLC | 12 November 1999 | 28 October 2000 | 351 days | |||
| 3 |  |
Rajnath Singh (Born 10 July 1951) |
Haidergarh | 28 October 2000 | 8 March 2002 | 1 year, 131 days | |||
| 4 | .jpg) |
Yogi Adityanath (Born 5 June 1972) |
MLC | 19 March 2017 | 25 March 2022 | 9 years, 161 days | 17th | ||
| Gorakhpur Urban | 25 March 2022 | Incumbent | 18th | ||||||
| S.No. | Portrait | Name (born /death) |
Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | Chief Ministers | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| BJP Deputy Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||
| 1 | .jpg) |
Dinesh Sharma (Born 12 January 1964) |
MLC | 19 March 2017 | 25 March 2022 | 5 years, 6 days | 17th |  Yogi Adityanath | |
.jpg) |
Keshav Prasad Maurya (Born 7 May 1969) |
MLC | 19 March 2017 | 25 March 2022 | 9 years, 161 days | ||||
| 25 March 2022 | Incumbent | 18th | |||||||
| 2 |  |
Brajesh Pathak (Born 25 June 1964) |
Lucknow Cantonment | 25 March 2022 | Incumbent | 4 years, 155 days | |||
| S.No. | Portrait | Name (born /death) |
Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | Chief Ministers | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| Leader of the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |||||||||
| 1 | |
Kalyan Singh (Born 5 Jan 1932 – Died 21 Aug 2021) |
Atrauli | 4 July 1993 | 12 June 1995 | 1 year, 343 days | 12th | Mulayam Singh Yadav | |
| 2 | .jpg) |
Lalji TandonKalyan Singh (Born 12 Apr 1935 – Died 21 Jul 2020) |
Lucknow West | 7 September 2003 | 13 May 2007 | 3 years, 248 days | 14th | ||
List of State President of Bharatiya Janata Party – Uttar Pradesh
| S.No. | Portrait | Name (born /death) |
Term in office | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| President Bharatiya Janata Party – Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||
| 1 | Madhav Prasad Tripathi (Born 12 Sep 1917 – Died 1985) |
1980 | 1984 | 4 years | |||||
| 2 | |
Kalyan Singh (Born 5 Jan 1932 – Died 21 Aug 2021) |
1984 | 1990 | 6 years | ||||
| 3 | Rajendra Kumar Gupta (Born 7 Jul 1936 – Died 7 Jan 2003) |
1990 | 1991 | 1 year | |||||
| 4[19] | .jpg) |
Kalraj Mishra (Born 1 July 1941) |
1991 | 1997 | 6 years | ||||
| 17 August 2000 | 24 June 2002 | 1 year, 311 days | |||||||
| 5 | |
Rajnath Singh (Born 10 July 1951) |
25 March 1997 | 3 January 2000 | 2 years, 284 days | ||||
| 6[20] | Om Prakash Singh (Born 6 February 1946) |
3 January 2000 | 17 August 2000 | 227 days | |||||
| 7[21] | Vinay Katiyar (Born 11 November 1954) |
24 June 2002 | 18 July 2004 | 2 years, 24 days | |||||
| 8[22] |  |
Keshari Nath Tripathi (Born 10 Nov 1934 - Died 8 Jan 2023) |
18 July 2004 | 3 September 2007 | 3 years, 47 days | ||||
| 9[23] |  |
Ramapati Ram Tripathi (Born 14 November 1950) |
3 September 2007 | 12 May 2010 | 2 years, 251 days | ||||
| 10[24] | .jpg) |
Surya Pratap Shahi (Born 23 December 1952) |
12 May 2010 | 13 April 2012 | 1 year, 337 days | ||||
| 11[25] | Laxmikant Bajpai (Born 20 July 1951) |
13 April 2012 | 8 April 2016 | 3 years, 361 days | |||||
| 12[26] | |
Keshav Prasad Maurya (Born 7 May 1969) |
8 April 2016 | 31 August 2017 | 1 year, 145 days | ||||
| 13[27] |  |
Mahendra Nath Pandey (Born 15 October 1957) |
31 August 2017 | 16 July 2019 | 1 year, 319 days | ||||
| 14[28] | .jpg) |
Swatantra Dev Singh (Born 13 February 1964) |
16 July 2019 | 25 August 2022 | 3 years, 40 days | ||||
| 15[29] |  |
Bhupendra Chaudhary (Born 30 June 1968) |
25 August 2022 | 14 December 2025 | 3 years, 111 days | ||||
| 16 | .jpg) |
Pankaj Chaudhary (Born 20 November 1964) |
14 December 2025 | incumbent | 256 days | ||||
See also
Notes
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