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1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh in May 1980. The Indian National Congress remained the largest party, winning 309 of the 425 seats.

The elections were held after President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy ordered the imposition of President's rule in the state on the advice of the Fourth Indira Gandhi ministry, which acted on basis that the victory of the Indian National Congress in the 1980 Indian general election proved that the state government no longer reflected the will of the pepule. These outset Banarasi Das-led Janata Party Government. Das joined Charan Singh's Janata Party (Secular) following the split in the Janata party.


	Indian National Congress	9,720,767	37.65	309	424
	Janata Party (Secular)	5,554,778	21.51	59	399
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,777,731	10.76	11	400
	Indian National Congress (U)	1,648,406	6.38	13	339
	Janata Party (Secular) Raj Narain	1,076,181	4.17	4	302
	Communist Party of India	917,773	3.55	7	155
	Janata Party (JP)	745,549	2.89	4	239
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	122,162	0.47	–	18
	Lokdal	69,086	0.27	–	4
	Soshit Samaj Dal (Akhil Bharatiya)	52,579	0.20	1	23
	Republican Party of India (Khobragade)	41,779	0.16	–	26
	Muslim Majlis	11,898	0.05	–	3
	Republican Party of India (Kamble)	4,029	0.02	–	1
	Janta Party	3,064	0.01	–	2
	All India Forward Bloc	2,712	0.01	–	10
	Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad	2,120	0.01	–	4
	Republican Party of India	2,000	0.01	–	2
	Bharatiya Socialist Party	956	0.00	–	1
	Independent	3,064,703	11.87	17	2267
Total	25,818,273	100.00	425	4619

25,818,273	98.21
470,401	1.79
26,288,674	100.00
58,520,466	44.92
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