A legislative assembly election will be held in Uttarpradesh for the 403 seats by 7 phases in between February 4 and March 8, 2017. The counting will be take place on March 11,2017. In the previous Assembly election in 2012, the Samajwadi Party won a majority and formed government under Akhilesh Yadav leadership. Forthcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are said to be close contest between two major parties of Uttarpradesh Bahujan Samaj Party and Bharatiya Janata Party.
Samajwadi Party released its first candidate list of 142 contestants for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017 on 28 March 2017. Congress declared Sheila Dikshit as it CM Candidate for 2017 elections. Sheila Dikshit was a former Chief Minister of Captial New Delhi. BJP is trying to get Dalits votes.
| Election Date | Count Date | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase-I | Phase-II | Phase-III | Phase-IV | Phase-V | Phase-VI | Phase-VII | |
| Feb 11,2017 | Feb 15,2017 | Feb 19,2017 | Feb 23,2017 | Feb 27,2017 | Mar 4,2017 | Mar 8,2017 | Mar 11 |