Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh

Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh भारतीय जनता पार्टी, उत्तर प्रदेश
Abbreviation	BJP
Leader	Yogi Adityanath (Chief Minister)
President	Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh
General Secretary	Dharam Pal Singh
Founded	6 April 1980 (44 years ago) (1980-04-06)
Headquarters	BJP Bhawan, 7, Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow - 226 001, Uttar Pradesh
Colours	Saffron
ECI Status	National Party
Seats in Lok Sabha	33 / 80
Seats in Rajya Sabha	25 / 31
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly	257 / 403
Seats in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council	79 / 100
Website
up.bjp.org
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Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh, or simply, 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

Legislative Assembly election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1952	2 / 430	2	6.45%	–	Opposition
1957	17 / 430	15	9.84%	3.39%
1962	49 / 430	32	16.64%	6.80%
1967	98 / 425	49	21.67%	5.03%	Opposition, later Government
1969	49 / 425	49	17.93%	3.74%
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%
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%
2017	312 / 403	265	39.67%	24.67%	Government
2022	255 / 403	57	41.3%	1.63%

Lok Sabha election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1952	0 / 86	–	Opposition
1957	1 / 86	1
1962	7 / 86	6
1967	12 / 85	5
1971	4 / 85	8
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	0 / 85	–	Opposition
1984	0 / 85	–
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
2004	10 / 80	19	Opposition
2009	10 / 80	–
2014	71 / 80	61	Government
2019	62 / 80	9
2024	33 / 80	29

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	8 March 2002	1 year, 131 days
4		Yogi Adityanath	MLC	19 March 2017	25 March 2022	7 years, 310 days	17th
			Gorakhpur Urban	25 March 2022	Incumbent		18th

Deputy Chief Minister

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of Office		Tenure	Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Dinesh Sharma	MLC	19 March 2017	25 March 2022	5 years, 6 days	17th	Yogi Adityanath
		Keshav Prasad Maurya	MLC	19 March 2017	25 March 2022	7 years, 310 days
				25 March 2022	Incumbent		18th
2		Brajesh Pathak	Lucknow Cantonment	25 March 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 304 days

Leaders of the Opposition

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of Office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Kalyan Singh	Atrauli	4 July 1993	12 June 1995	1 year, 343 days	12th	Mulayam Singh Yadav
2		Lalji Tandon	Lucknow West	7 September 2003	13 May 2007	3 years, 248 days	14th

President

No	Portrait	Name	Term of Office
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-Sep-2007	3 years, 47 days
8[5]		Ramapati Ram Tripathi	03-Sep-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	25-Aug-2022	3 years, 40 days
14[11]		Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh	25-Aug-2022	present	2 years, 151 days

See also

• Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Assam
• Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh
• Organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party
• Bharathiya Janata Party, Kerala
• Apna Dal (Sonelal)
• NISHAD Party

References

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4. "BJP takes UP away from Katiyar". The Times of India. 19 July 2004.
5. "Rajnath's close aide is party chief in UP". Hindustan Times. 2 September 2007.
6. "BJP elects new president from east UP again". Hindustan Times. 12 May 2010.
7. "Laxmikant Bajpai replaces Shahi as state BJP chief". The Indian Express. 14 April 2012.
8. "BS Yeddyurappa to head BJP in Karnataka, Keshav Prasad Maurya in Uttar Pradesh". The Economic Times. 8 April 2016.
9. "Mahendra Nath Pandey appointed Uttar Pradesh BJP chief". The New Indian Express. 1 September 2017.
10. "Swatantra Dev Singh appointed Uttar Pradesh BJP president". Zee News. 16 July 2019.
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