New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party (SP) has started preparing for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with a booth-level campaign aimed at expanding
its voter base. Party sources said booth-level agents have been asked to add at least five new voters at every polling booth.
The move comes months before the Assembly polls and is aimed at strengthening the party’s grassroots organisation. The SP is also looking to build on its performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, when the party and Congress together led in 224 of Uttar Pradesh’s 403 Assembly constituencies.
Uttar Pradesh has around 1.77 lakh polling booths. If the target of five new voters is achieved at every booth, the party could add nearly nine lakh voters to its outreach list. However, party leaders believe the actual impact could be much larger.
SP focuses on household-level outreach
According to the party’s internal calculation, a new voter could influence other members of the same family. With an average family size of about five, the SP believes five new voters at one booth could potentially help bring around 25 people into its support base.
“Our booth in-charges have been asked to add at least five new voters, although they are adding more than that at each booth,” party sources said.
Booth workers are visiting households and discussing the SP government’s work with voters. They are also raising issues such as examination paper leaks and alleged misuse of donations collected for the Ram Temple.
The party is backing its booth strategy with internal surveys covering all 403 Assembly seats. Multiple agencies and youth organisations are reportedly studying booth-wise and caste-wise voting patterns and identifying potential candidates.
BJP dismisses SP strategy
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has repeatedly highlighted booth management, voter-list verification and the appointment of reliable booth-level agents during meetings with party workers.
The strategy follows the SP’s improved performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The party won 37 seats in Uttar Pradesh with 33.59 per cent of the vote, while the BJP won 33 seats with 41.37 per cent. The Congress secured six seats.
The BJP, however, has dismissed the SP’s ‘five new voters’ plan. A BJP spokesperson said, “The BJP’s booth-level organisational structure is extremely strong. The SP is merely trying to copy us.”
The two parties are now stepping up booth-level preparations well ahead of the 2027 polls, with voter lists, local organisation and household outreach emerging as key areas of focus.
