Previous general elections (1989, 1991, 1996, 1998,1999, 2004) Success in 2007 The results of the May 2007
Uttar Pradesh state assembly election saw the BSP emerge as a sole majority party, the first to do so since 1991. Mayawati began her fourth term as
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and took her oath of office along with 50 ministers of cabinet and state rank on 13 May 2007, at Rajbhawan in the state capital of
Lucknow. Most importantly, the majority achieved in large part was due to the party's ability to take away majority of upper castes votes from their traditional party, the BJP. ,
Mumbai The party could manage only 80 seats in 2012, as opposed to 206 in 2007 assembly elections. BSP government was the first in the history of Uttar Pradesh to complete its full five-year term. On 26 May 2018, Ram Achal Rajbhar was replaced by
R S Kushwaha as the president of UP unit.
2014 Lok Sabha elections The 2014 national Lok Sabha elections saw the BSP become the third-largest national party of India in terms of vote percentage, having 4.2% of the vote across the country but gaining no seats.
2019 Lok Sabha elections: Mahagathbandhan Prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BSP formed an alliance. The
Mahagathbandhan (or Grand Alliance), or simply the
Gathbandhan (Alliance), is an anti-
Congress, anti-
BJP Indian political alliance formed in the run-up to the
2019 general election under the leadership of two former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh,
Akhilesh Yadav of the
Samajwadi Party and
Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party, along with
Ajit Singh's
Rashtriya Lok Dal and several other political parties, contesting in different states of India. In
Uttar Pradesh, BSP contested 38 seats, SP 37, and RLD 3, and the alliance supported Congress in the final two. Due to this seat sharing agreement, BSP's vote share fell slightly nationally and in the state, but they won 10 seats, up from 0 in 2014. The Samajwadi Party won 5 seats, giving the alliance a total of 15 seats out of 80 in the state.
2024 Lok Sabha elections: Historic setback On 19 July 2023, the BSP had announced that it would neither side with the
INDIA nor the
NDA and would go alone in the
2024 Indian General Election. However, it had its worst performance in a Lok Sabha election. It lost all ten of its seats in
Uttar Pradesh that it had gained in the
previous election and didn't gain any seats elsewhere. Its national vote share fell to 2.07%, less than half of what it was in
2014 when it also won 0 seats.
Election results Lok Sabha Legislative Assembly elections ==Gallery==