BSBahujan Samaj PartyState partyBSP
Contested 11 general elections between 1980 and 2024, winning 86 Lok Sabha seats from 3,499 candidacies. 696 assembly seats won in 23 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1980
11
Elections contested
86
Seats won, all time
21
Best result (2009)
3.5%
Avg. vote share
3,499 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (2024)
0
488 contested · 2.04% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
2.5%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won86 (2%)
- Lost3413 (98%)
National vote share
Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested
A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.
Key highlights
- Best-ever result was 21 seats in 2009, on 6.17% of the national vote.
- At the 2024 election it contested 488 seats and won 0, a 0% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is AKBARPUR, Uttar Pradesh, won 4 times, most recently in 2004.
- Holds a state assembly record in 23 states, with 696 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 11 general elections the party has polled 16.2 cr votes and lost 2,959 deposits. It has won 696 assembly seats across 160 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/bsp.
