The Loktantrik Samajwadi Party is a minor political party in India. It was founded on 9 January 1994 in

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by three senior MPs from the

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Electoral performance

The party contested 14 seats in the 1998

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(national parliament) elections. They also stood in the 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014 elections, steadily dropping the number of seats contested. By 2014 they were contesting only two seats. They

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s in every constituency contested in every election over that period. The party won a seat in the 2008

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election in

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."AC: Party performance over elections - Loktantrik Samajwadi Party"
India Votes, retrieved 15 May 2021.

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