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The '''Loktantrik Samajwadi Party''' is a minor political party in India. It was founded on 9 January 1994 in [[Patna]] by three senior [[Member of parliament|MPs]] from the [[Janata Dal Party]]. These were [[Ram Sundar Das]], [[Rasheed Masood]], and [[Upendra Nath Verma]].<ref>Vijaya R. Trivedi, ''A Chronicle of World Events: January–March 1994'', p. 31, Gyan Publishing, 1994, {{ISBN|8121202132}}.</ref><br />
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== Electoral performance ==<br />
The party contested 14 seats in the 1998 [[Lok Sabha]] (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 [[lost their deposit]]s in every constituency contested in every election over that period.<ref>[https://www.indiavotes.com/party/detail?partyname=Loktantrik+Samajwadi+Party+%5BLSWP%5D "PC: Party performance over elections - Loktantrik Samajwadi Party"], India Votes, retrieved 15 May 2021.</ref><br />
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The party won a seat in the 2008 [[State legislative assemblies of India|state assembly]] election in [[Rajasthan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trBMVnMmk6oC&pg=PT11|title = Pratiyogita Darpan|last1 = Darpan|first1 = Pratiyogita|date = February 2009}}</ref><ref>[https://www.indiavotes.com/party/state_info?eid=&type=ac&partylist=Loktantrik+Samajwadi+Party+%5BLSWP%5D&radioselection=ac&state=14 "AC: Party performance over elections - Loktantrik Samajwadi Party"], India Votes, retrieved 15 May 2021.</ref><br />
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