All 403 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly go to the polls in an election expected in February–March 2027. This is your independent home for constituency-level data, party profiles, verified news and a live reader opinion poll on the UP Election 2027 — built for the more than 15 crore voters of Uttar Pradesh and everyone watching India's biggest state contest.
Exact dates are yet to be announced by the Election Commission of India
Out of 403 seats · official ECI result
Five forces will define the UP Assembly Election 2027 — a ruling NDA seeking a rare third straight term, an SP-led opposition betting on caste arithmetic, a BSP attempting a solo comeback, a rebuilding Congress, and a fast-rising Dalit-Bahujan challenger.
Led in the state by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the BJP is defending the majority it won in 2017 and retained in 2022, campaigning on Hindutva consolidation, welfare delivery and law and order.
Akhilesh Yadav's SP more than doubled its 2017 tally in 2022 and is now negotiating a fresh seat-sharing pact with the Congress, built around its Pichhda-Dalit-Alpsankhyak (PDA) social coalition.
Reduced to a single seat in 2022, the BSP under Mayawati has repeatedly ruled out any alliance for 2027, saying it will contest independently while trying to rebuild its Dalit-Brahmin "Sarvjan" coalition.
Out of power in UP since 1989, the Congress is rebuilding its organisation district-by-district under Rahul Gandhi's team, with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra active on the ground, ahead of seat-sharing talks with the SP.
Also watch: the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) led by Chandrashekhar Azad, fresh off a landmark Lok Sabha win from Nagina in 2024, is emerging as a fourth pole in Dalit-Bahujan politics — and NDA allies Rashtriya Lok Dal, Apna Dal (Sonelal), Nishad Party and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party will shape the western and eastern UP battlegrounds. Read full party profiles →
From the Chief Minister seeking re-election to the challengers vying to replace him — the people whose decisions on alliances, candidates and campaign themes will decide Uttar Pradesh's next government.
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Unemployment and out-of-state migration for work remain top doorstep concerns across both rural and urban UP.
The BJP's "zero tolerance" policing record is central to its pitch; opposition parties dispute how evenly it has applied.
SP's PDA formula, BSP's Dalit-Brahmin outreach and BJP's broader Hindutva consolidation will compete for the same voters.
Free ration schemes, women's safety and turnout among first-time and women voters could swing close contests.
SIR stands for Special Intensive Revision — a door-to-door re-check of every name on the voter list, ordered by the Election Commission. Here is how it works, how it differs from the yearly revision, which states have gone through it, the documents accepted and what it did to Uttar Pradesh's voter list.
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Seven states go to the polls in 2027: Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur in early 2027, and Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh at the end of the year. India also elects a new President in July 2027. Here are the seats, current governments, term-end dates and what the Election Commission has done so far.
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The Election Commission has formally declared winners on six of Uttar Pradesh's 11 Legislative Council seats — one graduates' and five teachers' seats — with the BJP winning four and the SP two. Counting is complete on eight seats, where the tally is BJP 5, SP 3. Here is the official list and the state of the remaining seats.
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The Samajwadi Party has kept the Allahabad-Jhansi graduates' seat by a landslide. Sitting MLC Dr Man Singh Yadav polled 60,358 votes to the BJP's Ashok Kumar Rathore's 32,695 — a margin of 27,663 — crossing the quota on first preferences after trailing in round one.
Read more →Ordinary voters do not directly elect MLCs. They are chosen by MLAs, local-body members, graduates and teachers, and some are nominated by the Governor. A plain-language guide to the Legislative Council, who votes for which seats, and how an MLC differs from an MLA.
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Official results are in for six of Uttar Pradesh's 11 Legislative Council seats: the BJP has won five, including the Lucknow, Meerut and Bareilly-Moradabad teachers' seats, and the SP one — Varanasi teachers'. Of the five seats still counting, the SP leads three, the BJP one and an independent one.
Read more →Search any of Uttar Pradesh's 403 Assembly constituencies by name or district to see its reservation status and party-wise candidates — updated the moment parties make announcements.
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