Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly ; Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha
18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature
History
Preceded by	United Provinces Legislative Council
Leadership
Governor	Anandiben Patel ; since 29 July 2019
Speaker	Satish Mahana, BJP ; since 29 March 2022
Deputy Speaker	Vacant
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath, BJP ; since 19 March 2017
Minister of Legislative Affairs	Suresh Khanna, BJP ; since 25 March 2022
Leader of the House	Yogi Adityanath, BJP ; since 25 March 2022
Leader of the Opposition	Mata Prasad Pandey, SP ; since 28 July 2024
Principal Secretary	Pradeep Kumar Dubey, PCS J (Retd.) ; since 30 March 2021
Structure
Seats	403
Political groups	Government (291) NDA (291) BJP (258); AD(S) (13); RLD (9); SBSP (6); NISHAD (5); Official Opposition (109) INDIA (109) SP (107); INC (2); Other Opposition (3) JD(L) (2); BSP (1);
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	10 February 2022 – 7 March 2022
Next election	2027
Meeting place
	Vidhan Sabha Chamber, Vidhan Bhavan, Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow - 226 001
Website
	Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, also known as Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of bicameral legislature of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh.^[1] There are 403 seats in the house. Members of the Assembly are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the Governor on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Vidhan Sabha Chambers of the Vidhan Bhavan, Lucknow is the capital.

History

The Legislative Assembly for the United Provinces was constituted for the first time on 1 April 1937 in accordance with the Government of India Act, 1935 with a strength of 228. The size of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was decided as 403 members after the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. There is one nominated Anglo-Indian member in addition to 403 members.^[2] The first session of the provisional Uttar Pradesh Legislature under the new Constitution of India that established the country as a republic began on 2 February 1950. After the first elections the newly elected Assembly of Uttar Pradesh met on 19 May 1952.

List of Assemblies

Vidhan Sabha	Constitution	Dissolution	Days
1st	20 May 1952	31 March 1957	1,776
2nd	1 April 1957	6 March 1962	1,800
3rd	7 March 1962	9 March 1967	1,828
4th	10 March 1967	15 April 1968	402
5th	26 February 1969	4 March 1974	1,832
6th	4 March 1974	30 April 1977	1,153
7th	23 June 1977	17 February 1980	969
8th	9 June 1980	10 March 1985	1,735
9th	10 March 1985	29 November 1989	1,725
10th	2 December 1989	4 April 1991	488
11th	22 June 1991	6 December 1992	533
12th	4 December 1993	28 October 1995	693
13th	17 October 1996	7 March 2002	1,967
14th	26 February 2002	13 May 2007	1,902
15th	13 May 2007	9 March 2012	1,762
16th	8 March 2012	11 March 2017	1,829
17th	19 March 2017	12 March 2022	1,834
18th	29 March 2022	-	3 years, 191 days

Eighteenth assembly

Alliance			No. of MLA's	Leader of the Party in Assembly	Leader's Constituency
	NDA Seats: 291	Bharatiya Janata Party	258	Yogi Adityanath	Gorakhpur Urban
		Apna Dal (Sonelal)	13	Ram Niwas Verma	Nanpara
		Rashtriya Lok Dal	9	Rajpal Singh Baliyan	Budhana
		NISHAD Party	5	Anil Kumar Tripathi	Menhdawal
		Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party	6	Om Prakash Rajbhar	Zahoorabad
	INDIA Seats:109	Samajwadi Party	107	Mata Prasad Pandey	Itwa
	INDIA Seats:109	Indian National Congress	2	Aradhana Mishra	Rampur Khas
	Others Seats:3	Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)	2	Raghuraj Pratap Singh	Kunda
	Others Seats:3	Bahujan Samaj Party	1	Umashankar Singh	Rasara
Total			403

Members of Legislative Assembly

Note

References

^ "Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly". uplegisassembly.gov.in. Archived from the original on 6 August 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India.

Sources

History of Legislature in Uttar Pradesh

External links

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[1] "Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly". uplegisassembly.gov.in. Archived from the original on 6 August 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2020.

[ECI_Delimitation_order_2008-2] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India.

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