The Janata Party won a majority of seats and Ram Naresh Yadav was appointed the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

[3] 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 Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, passed during The Emergency in 1976, lengthened the term to six years.

After the come to power of the Janata Party in the 1977 Indian general election, the new government dissolved the state governments run by the Indian National Congress and declared fresh election in thus stats.