In 2007, she rode to energy and never simply turned the primary feminine Dalit chief minister in the nation but in addition Uttar Pradesh’s first CM to finish the fractured mandates and short-lived governments. Mayawati, the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo, modified lots of issues in UP politics. However, because the outcomes for the 2022 polls had been revealed on March 10, the once-dominant social gathering shrank to only one seat and the bottom vote share in practically three many years.
Mayawati, who turned the state’s first chief minister to finish a time period, might solely handle to bag the Rasara seat in the latest meeting polls. However, numbers recommend that the social gathering has not utterly misplaced its reputation. The BSP is third in UP this time after the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party in phrases of vote share. While the BJP that swept the 2022 meeting polls bought 255 seats and 41.29% votes, the SP gained 111 seats with 32.06% votes. The BSP has managed to get 12.88% votes, although it’s got fewer seats than the Apna Dal (Soneylal), Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), and even Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).
Mayawati, well-known as “Behenji”, turned the second feminine chief minister of Uttar Pradesh after Sucheta Kripalani and has taken the cost 4 instances. She first turned the CM in 1995, then in 1997 and 2002 as effectively, earlier than the historic 2007 time period.
The BSP was shaped by Kanshi Ram in 1984 and Mayawati took its reins in 2001. When the social gathering first went for polls in 1989, it managed to get 13 seats and its vote share was 9.41%. The BSP witnessed the height in 2007 because it grabbed 30.43% of the votes and 206 seats in UP. Since 1996, it has bagged practically 20% of the overall vote share, besides in this election. In 2012 and 2007, this share was greater than 25%.
The social gathering was getting a bit of over 35 lakh votes till the 1991 elections. This rose to over 55 lakh votes in 1993 and, since 1996, the social gathering has been getting over one crore votes. In 2007, when the BSP swept the UP meeting polls, it had bought 1.58 crore votes. In 2012 and 2017, it bagged practically two crore votes. However, in 2022, its votes had been 1.18 crore.
Despite shrinking, the social gathering has its floor in the Lok Sabha elections as effectively and managed to have the core votes. In the 2004 parliamentary polls, the BSP fielded 435 candidates, and solely 19 gained. The social gathering’s vote share was 5.33% because it secured 2.07 crore votes. At least 358 contestants misplaced deposits. A candidate must safe at least a sixth (16.67%) of the votes polled in the constituency to get again the deposit. The contestants who fail to get the required quantity of votes lose or forfeit their deposits.
In 2009, the BSP fielded 500 candidates, and 21 gained whereas 410 forfeited their deposits. The social gathering bagged 2.57 crore (6.17%) votes. In the following Lok Sabha polls in 2014, out of the 503 candidates fielded by the social gathering, none made it to Parliament whereas 447 misplaced their deposits. The social gathering’s vote share dropped to 4.19% (2.29 crore). In 2019, 10 BSP candidates managed to enter the Lok Sabha out of 383 in the fray whereas 345 candidates misplaced their deposits. The social gathering secured 3.66% (2.22 crore) of the overall votes.
After the 2022 meeting ballot outcomes had been introduced, Mayawati stated it was a “lesson” and added that “only the BSP can stop the BJP”.
“The poll results are contrary to the BSP’s expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead, we should learn from it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power,” the 66-year-old chief stated whereas addressing the media after the outcomes had been introduced.
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