Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in June 1977 to elect members of the 425 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, India. The Janata Party won a majority of seats and Ram Naresh Yadav was appointed the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. The number of constituencies was set as 425 by the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.
Background
The previous elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in February 1974, and the Indian National Congress won a majority and formed a Government headed by Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna. Bahuguna was forced to resign by Prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 and was replaced by N. D. Tiwari.
The term of the Assembly should have been for five years, until early 1979. The Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, passed during The Emergency in 1976, lengthened the term to six years.
After Janata Party came to power in the 1977 Indian general election, the new government dissolved the state governments run by the Indian National Congress and declared fresh election in those states.