Samajwadi Party

Samajwadi Party

Abbreviation	SP
President	Akhilesh Yadav
General Secretary	Ram Gopal Yadav Azam Khan Shivpal Singh Yadav Indrajit Saroj Lalji Verma Awadhesh Prasad Ram Achal Rajbhar Balram Yadav Vishambhar Prasad Nishad Ram Ji Lal Suman Harendra Singh Malik
Lok Sabha Leader	Akhilesh Yadav
Rajya Sabha Leader	Ram Gopal Yadav
Founder	Mulayam Singh Yadav
Founded	4 October 1992 (1992-10-04)
Split from	Janata Dal
Headquarters	18 Copernicus Lane, New Delhi
Newspaper	Samajwadi Bulletin
Student wing	Samajwadi Chatra Sabha
Youth wing	Samajwadi Prahari Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha Lohiya Vahini
Women's wing	Samajwadi Mahila Sabha
Ideology	Democratic socialism Progressivism Secularism Left-wing populism
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance
Colours	Red and Green
ECI Status	State Party
Alliance	I.N.D.I.A. (2023–present) Left Front (1996–2016)
Seats in Lok Sabha	37 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha	4 / 245
Seats in State Legislative Assemblies	107 / 403 (Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly) 2 / 288 (Maharashtra Legislative Assembly) 1 / 182 (Gujarat Legislative Assembly)
Seats in State Legislative Council's	10 / 100 (Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council)
Number of states and union territories in government	0 / 31
Election symbol

Party flag

Website
www.samajwadiparty.in
Politics of India Political parties Elections

Socialism
Part of a series on

History Outline
Development French Revolution Revolutions of 1848 Socialist calculation debate Socialist economics
Ideas Calculation in kind Collective ownership Cooperative Common ownership Critique of political economy Economic democracy Economic planning Equal liberty Equal opportunity Free association Freed market Industrial democracy Input–output model Internationalism Labour-time calculation Labour voucher Material balance planning Peer‑to‑peer economics Production for use Sharing economy Spontaneism Social dividend Social ownership Socialism in one country Socialist mode of production Soviet democracy Strike action To each according to his contribution/needs Vanguardism Workers' self-management Workplace democracy
Models Communalism Socialist planned economy Decentralized planning Inclusive Democracy OGAS Project Cybersyn Soviet-type Market socialism Lange model Mutualism Socialist market economy Socialist-oriented market Participatory economics
Variants 21st-century African Arab Agrarian Anarchism Authoritarian Blanquism Buddhist Chinese Christian Communism Democratic Democratic road Digital Ethical Ecological Evolutionary Feminist Fourierism Free-market Gandhian Guild Islamic Jewish Laissez-faire Liberal Libertarian Marhaenism Market Marxism Municipal Nationalist Nkrumaism Owenism Popular (Central Europe) Popular (Nordic) Reformism Religious Revolutionary Ricardian Saint-Simonianism Scientific Sewer Social democracy State Syndicalism Third World Utopian Yellow Zionist
Intellectuals More Campanella d'Hupay Saint-Simon Buonarroti Saint-Just Owen Fourier Cabet Leroux Sue Blanqui Proudhon Greeley Herzen Bakunin Marx Kingsley Engels Wallace Lavrov Lassalle Saltykov Chernyshevsky Tolstoy Michel Morris Jones Kropotkin Carpenter Sorel Bellamy Kautsky Wilde Bellamy Plekhanov Ferrer Dewey Wells Du Bois Gorky Goldman Landauer Berkman Luxemburg Russell Pannekoek Rocker Spengler Keller Pankhurst Volin Lukács Korsch Polanyi Vanzetti Bordiga Serge Gramsci Sacco Day Marcuse James Orwell Montseny Sartre Bookchin Zinn Castoriadis Thompson Chomsky Fotopoulos Newton Wolff Ali Öcalan Hampton Žižek West Hedges Varoufakis Saito
Politicians Gracchi Brothers Mazdak Roux Babeuf Blanc Hong Bebel Bernstein Malatesta Debs Markievicz Connolly Gandhi Liebknecht Blum Martov Trotsky Kerensky Attlee Spiridonova Makhno Tito Nagy Durruti Gerhardsen Erlander Douglas Senghor Allende van der Lubbe Kreisky Corvalán Mitterrand Nasser Mandela Dubček Manley Palme Che Gorbachev Ismail Sanders Lula Guterres Corbyn Sankara Chávez Galloway Marcos Sánchez Ocasio-Cortez
Organizations Socialist Party Labour and Socialist International Network of Social Democracy in Asia Party of European Socialists Socialist International World Socialist Movement Young European Socialists
Related topics Capitalism Communist society Criticism of capitalism Criticism of socialism Economic calculation problem Economic system French Left Left-libertarianism Libertarianism Market abolitionism Marxist philosophy Nanosocialism Progressivism Socialism and LGBTQ rights Socialist calculation debate Socialist Party Socialist state Workers' council
Lists Democratic socialists Democratic socialist parties and organizations Economists Films Social democrats Social democratic parties Songs States
Socialism portal (WikiProject) Economics portal Organized Labour portal Philosophy portal Politics portal

The Samajwadi Party (abbr. SP; lit. 'Socialist Party') is a socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in India, and is led by former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav.

While the party is largely based in Uttar Pradesh, it has significant presence in many other Indian states as well. It has been the ruling party in the state of Uttar Pradesh for four terms – three times under Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, the fourth and most recent being Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's full majority government in the 2012–2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

The coalition of the party and its alliance partners: Samajwadi Alliance SP+ is currently the largest bloc in Uttar Pradesh in terms of Lok Sabha MPs. The alliance has one of the largest vote bases in the state of Uttar Pradesh in terms of the collective voting pattern, with more than 37% vote share in the 2022 assembly elections and 44% in the 2024 general elections.