Election to legislative assembly constituencies ofUttar Pradesh is held every five years and conducted byElection commission of India whereas the election to local bodies of Uttar pradesh is conducted by theElection Commission of Uttar pradesh.^[1] Parliamentary constituencies and Legislative assembly constituencies are also called "Lok sabha seats" and "Vidhan sabha seats" respectively. There are 80 parliamentary constituencies^[2] and403 legislative assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The state has seen 17 Vidhan Sabha elections and 16 Lok Sabha elections since independence.^[3]

In India, elections to parliamentary constituencies and legislative assembly constituencies are conducted byElection Commission of India^[4] and elections to local bodies are conducted by the election commission of the respective state. It is theElection Commission of India who decides the delimitation (the redrawing of the boundaries of parliamentary or assembly constituencies to make sure that there are, as nearly as practicable, the same number of people in each constituency), reservation of seats and system of election with respect to parliamentary and assembly constituency elections.^[5]

TheLok Sabha is thedirectly electedlower house of theParliament of India. As of 2019 there have been seventeen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India. Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha constituencies.

Uttar Pradesh parliamentary seats results^[6]

#	Lok sabha election Year	Total Seats	SP	INC	BJP	Others	PM elect	PM's Party
1		86	-	81[7]	-	Party name Seats won SP 2 HMS 1 IND 2	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC
2		86	-	72[8]	-	Party name Seats won PSP 4 BJS 1 CPI 1 IND 8
3		86[9]	-	62	-	Party name Seats won JS 7 IND 5 SWA 3 REP 3 PSP 2 CPI 2 HMS 1 SOC 1
4		85	-	48	-	Party name Seats won JS 12 SSP 8 IND 7 CPI 5 PSP 2 CPM 1 RPI 1 SWA 1	Indira Gandhi	INC
5		85	-	73	-	Party name Seats won BJS 4 CPI 3 IND 2 Others 1 NCO 1 BKD 1
6		85	-	-	-	Party name Seats won JP 85	Morarji Desai	JP
7		85	-	50	-	Party name Seats won JNP(S) 29 Others 6	Indira Gandhi	INC
8		85	-	83	-	Party name Seats won LKD 2	Rajiv Gandhi
9		85	-	15	8	Party name Seats won JD 54 BssP 2 CPI 2 IND 2 HMS 1 CPM 1	V. P. Singh	JD
10		85	-	5	51	Party name Seats won JD 22 JP 4 BSP 1 CPI 1	P. V. Narasimha Rao	INC
11		85	16	5	52	Party name Seats won BSP 6 AIIC(T) 2 JD 2 IND 1 SAP 1	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	BJP
12		85	19	-	59	Party name Seats won BSP 4 SAP 2 IND 1 SJP(R) 1
13		85	35	10	29	Party name Seats won BSP 14 AIIC(T) 2 RLD 2 IND 1 SJP(R) 1
14		80	35	9	10	Party name Seats won BSP 19 RLD 3 IND 1 JD(U) 1 NLP 1 SJP(R) 1	Manmohan Singh	INC
15		80	22	22	10	Party name Seats won BSP 20 RLD 5 IND 1
16		80	5	2	71	Party name Seats won AD(S) 2	Narendra Modi	BJP
17		80	5	1	62	Party Name Seats won BSP 10 AD(S) 2
18		80	37	6	33	Party Name Seats won RLD 2 AD(S) 1 ASP(KR) 1

Uttar Pradesh has 403 assembly constituencies. TheChief Minister of the state is elected by legislators of the political party orcoalition commanding an assembly majority, and serves a five-year term with a provision of re-election. TheGovernor is thehead of state, but his or her role is largely ceremonial.

Every parliamentary constituency is composed of multiple state assembly constituencies.^[11] And electoral boundaries are different from administrative boundaries.For instance, electoral boundary of Agra parliamentary constituency is different from the district (administrative) boundary of Agra.Main:List of Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh

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