The BSP was formed in 1984 by Kanshi Ram who has remained party leader ever since. The party emerged from Kanshi Ram's earlier activity promoting the interests of Scheduled Caste government employees. Kanshi Ram was able to promote the organisation in the states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. Although the BSP is recognised by the Election Commission as a national party it effectively functions on certain North Indian states only. It's ideology is based on the argument that the majority are oppressed by the select upper class. It aims to change this using the government power.
Mayawati and Kanshi Ram are the two key figures of the party.
The BSP first entered the election fray in 1984 but didnot do well. It started to rise in the post alliances era. While in power in 1995, the BSP was clouded in several controversies.
It still has risen with it's limited following based on the cast credentials.It's single point program is the upliftment of dalits.
Mayawati and Kanshi Ram are the two key figures of the party.
The BSP first entered the election fray in 1984 but didnot do well. It started to rise in the post alliances era. While in power in 1995, the BSP was clouded in several controversies.
It still has risen with it's limited following based on the cast credentials.It's single point program is the upliftment of dalits.
| List of BSP candidates for Lok Sabha Election 2009 | |||
| S.No | State Name | Constituency Name | Candidate Name |
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | Sultanpur | Mohammad Tahir |
| 2 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | Harmohan Dhawan |
| 3 | Gujarat | Kachchh | Mohan Namori |
| 4 | Gujarat | Amreli | Usha Patel |
| 5 | Gujarat | Valsad | Chagan Patel |
| 6 | Gujarat | Anand | Mukesh Patel |
| 7 | Gujarat | Ahmedabad East | Bhavesh Bhatt |
| 8 | Gujarat | Panchmahal | Prakash Barot |
| 9 | Gujarat | Banaskantha | Suresh Mali |
| 10 | Gujarat | Navsari | Samarnath Singh |
| 11 | Gujarat | Sabarkantha | Vikramsingh Ramalavat |
| 12 | Gujarat | Ahmedabad (west) | Pravin Solanki |
| 13 | Gujarat | Rajkot | Dalichand Patel |
| 14 | Gujarat | Porbandar | Mehul Chandrawadia |
| 15 | Gujarat | Dahod | Ramsingh Kalara |
| 16 | Gujarat | Kheda | Ratansingh Chauhan |
| 17 | Gujarat | Chhota Udaipur | Prakash Bhil |
| 18 | Gujarat | Mahesana | Rudratsingh Jhala |
| 19 | Gujarat | Bardoli | Ranjana Gamit |
| 20 | Gujarat | Patan | Mehboob Kokhar |
| 21 | Haryana | Ambala | Chaudhary Chandrapal |
| 22 | Haryana | Gurgaon | Zakir Hussain |
| 23 | Haryana | Hisar | Ram Dayal Goyal |
| 24 | Haryana | Sonipat | Devraj Deewan |
| 25 | Haryana | Bhiwani - Mahendragarh | Thakur Vikram Singh |
| 26 | Haryana | Rohtak | Raj Kumar Sharma |
| 27 | Haryana | Karnal | Ratha Virendra Sharma |
| 28 | Haryana | Sirsa | Rajesh Vaid |
| 29 | Haryana | Kurukshetra | Guru Dayal Singh Saini |
| 30 | Haryana | Faridabad | Chetan Sharma |
| 31 | Himachal Pradesh | Kangra | S N Pathania |
| 32 | Himachal Pradesh | Mandi | Lala Ram Sharma |
| 33 | Himachal Pradesh | Hamirpur | Mela Ram Sharma |
| 34 | Karnataka | Bangalore Rural | Mohammed Hafizulla Sharief |
| 35 | Karnataka | Bangalore Central | Vijaya Bhaskar |
| 36 | Karnataka | Bangalore South | Naheeda Salma |
| 37 | Karnataka | Chikkballapur | Laxminarayan |
| 38 | Karnataka | Belgaum | R S Patil |
| 39 | Karnataka | Bidar | Jagannath Jamadar |
| 40 | Karnataka | Kolar | N Muniswamy |
| 41 | Karnataka | Tumkur | Ashok |
| 42 | Karnataka | Shimoga | J. Jayappa |
| 43 | Karnataka | Koppal | Shivaputrappa Gumageri |
| 44 | Karnataka | Bellary | T Nagendra |
| 45 | Karnataka | Chitradurga | M Jayanna |
| 46 | Karnataka | Raichur | Shivakumar Naik Korvi |
| 47 | Karnataka | Gulbarga | Mahadev B Dhani |
| 48 | Karnataka | Chamarajanagar | N Mahesh |
| 49 | Karnataka | Hassan | A.P. Ahmed |
| 50 | Karnataka | Mysore | Syed Nizam Ali |
| 51 | Karnataka | Dakshina Kannada | Girish Rai |
| 52 | Karnataka | Bijapur | Sudhakar Kanamadi |
| 53 | Karnataka | Udupi Chikamagalur | Steven J Menezes |
| 54 | Karnataka | Haveri | Basavanthappa Gonnemmanavar |
| 55 | Karnataka | Mandya | Krishnamurthy |
| 56 | Kerala | Ernakulam | Dr Sherrif Mohammed |
| 57 | Kerala | Palakkad | V Chandran |
| 58 | Kerala | Thrissur | Joshy Tharakan |
| 59 | Kerala | Mavelikkara | Dr Mohan |
| 60 | Kerala | Chalakudy | Muttom Abdullah |
| 61 | Kerala | Wayanad | Rajeev Joseph |
| 62 | Kerala | Idukki | Biju M John. |
| 63 | Kerala | Alappuzha | K S Prasad |
| 64 | Kerala | Pathanamthitta | K K Nair |
| 65 | Kerala | Kollam | Jayyanandhan |
| 66 | Kerala | Attingal | J Sudhakaran |
| 67 | Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram | Dr Neelalohithadasan Nadar |
| 68 | Kerala | Alathur | Dr Sidevan |
| 69 | Madhya Pradesh | Khargone | D R Barde |
| 70 | Madhya Pradesh | Shahdol | Manohar Singh Marawi |
| 71 | Madhya Pradesh | Khandwa | Vamanrao Sasane |
| 72 | Madhya Pradesh | Balaghat | Ajab Lal Shastri |
| 73 | Madhya Pradesh | Sagar | Shailesh Kumar Verma |
| 74 | Madhya Pradesh | Indore | Abdul Latif Khan |
| 75 | Madhya Pradesh | Dhar | Ajay Rawat |
| 76 | Madhya Pradesh | Damoh | Vaijynath Patel |
| 77 | Madhya Pradesh | Ratlam | Mahendra Singh Mandloi |
| 78 | Madhya Pradesh | Dewas | Bhagirath Parihar |
| 79 | Madhya Pradesh | Rajgarh | Ramaprasad Dangi |
| 80 | NC Territory of Delhi | North West Delhi | Rakesh Hansh |
| 81 | NC Territory of Delhi | East Delhi | Hazi Yunush |
| 82 | NC Territory of Delhi | North East Delhi | Hazi Dilshad |
| 83 | NC Territory of Delhi | South Delhi | Kanwar Singh Tanwar |
| 84 | NC Territory of Delhi | New Delhi | Trilok Chand Sharma |
| 85 | NC Territory of Delhi | Chandni Chowk | Hazi Mustaqeem alias Ballo |
| 86 | NC Territory of Delhi | West Delhi | Deepak Bharadwaj |
| 87 | Tamil Nadu | Chennai Central | Yuniskhan |
| 88 | Tamil Nadu | Chennai South | Dr Sridharan |
| 89 | Tamil Nadu | Ramanathapuram | Allapichai E |
| 90 | Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore | Ramasubramanian |
| 91 | Tamil Nadu | Salem | Er Balasubramanian |
| 92 | Tamil Nadu | Madurai | N Darbar Raja |
| 93 | Tamil Nadu | Mayiladuthurai | Saptharishi |
| 94 | Tamil Nadu | Karur | Dharmalingam |
| 95 | Tamil Nadu | Dindigul | Srinivas Babu |
| 96 | Tamil Nadu | Virudhunagar | Kanakaraj I A S |
| 97 | Tamil Nadu | Chidambaram | Rajendran |
| 98 | Tamil Nadu | Sivaganga | M G Thevar |
| 99 | Tamil Nadu | Arakkonam | Prof Mary John |
| 100 | Tamil Nadu | Dharmapuri | Dr Purushothaman |
| 101 | Tamil Nadu | Theni | Ilayaraja |
| 102 | Tamil Nadu | Kallakurichi | Senthil Kumar |
| 103 | Tamil Nadu | Arani | Shankar |
| 104 | Tamil Nadu | Tiruvallur | Adv Anandan |
| 105 | Tamil Nadu | Kanniyakumari | P Sivakami I A S |
| 106 | Tamil Nadu | Vellore | Mansur |
| 107 | Tamil Nadu | Tiruchirappalli | Kalyanasundaram |
| 108 | Tamil Nadu | Sriperumbudur | B Rajappa |
| 109 | Uttar Pradesh | Mainpuri | Vinay Shakya |
| 110 | Uttar Pradesh | Sambhal | Dr Shafik-ur-rehma Barq |
| 111 | Uttar Pradesh | Varanasi | Mukhtar Ansari |
| 112 | Uttar Pradesh | Mohanlaganj | Jai Prakash Rawat |
| 113 | Uttar Pradesh | Hathras | Rajendra Kumar |
| 114 | Uttar Pradesh | Unnao | Arun Kumar Shukla |
| 115 | Uttar Pradesh | Muzaffarnagar | Kadir Rana |
| 116 | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow | Akhilesh Das |
| 117 | Uttar Pradesh | Aonla | Kunwar Sarvraj Singh |
| 118 | Uttar Pradesh | Shahjahanpur | Sunita Singh |
| 119 | Uttar Pradesh | Mathura | Pt Shyam Sundar Sharma |
| 120 | Uttar Pradesh | Mirzapur | Anil Kumar Maurya |
| 121 | Uttar Pradesh | Raebareli | RS Kushwaha |
| 122 | Uttar Pradesh | Moradabad | Rajiv Channa |
| 123 | Uttar Pradesh | Aligarh | Rajkumari Chauhan |
| 124 | Uttar Pradesh | Sitapur | Kaiser Jahan |
| 125 | Uttar Pradesh | Etah | Devendra Singh Yadav |
| 126 | Uttar Pradesh | Saharanpur | Jagdish Singh Rana |
| 127 | Uttar Pradesh | Agra | Kunwar Singh Vakil |
| 128 | Uttar Pradesh | Robertsganj | Ram Chandra Tyagi |
| 129 | Uttar Pradesh | Gorakhpur | Vinay Shankar Tiwari |
| 130 | Uttar Pradesh | Salempur | Ram Shankar Rajbhar |
| 131 | Uttar Pradesh | Pilibhit | Buddhsen Verma |
| 132 | Uttar Pradesh | Ballia | Sangram Singh Yadav |
| 133 | Uttar Pradesh | Barabanki | Kamla Prasad Rawat |
| 134 | Uttar Pradesh | Azamgarh | Akbar Ahmed Dumpy |
| 135 | Uttar Pradesh | Banda | Gorakhnath Pandey |
| 136 | Uttar Pradesh | Banda | Bhairon Prasad Mishra |
| 137 | Uttar Pradesh | Phulpur | Kapilmuni Karwaria |
| 138 | Uttar Pradesh | Domariyaganj | Mohammad Mukeem |
| 139 | Uttar Pradesh | Farrukhabad | Naresh Chandra Agarwal |
| 140 | Uttar Pradesh | Etawah | Gauri Shankar |
| 141 | Uttar Pradesh | Chandauli | Kailash Nath Singh Yadav |
| 142 | Uttar Pradesh | Ghosi | Dara Singh Chauhan |
| 143 | Uttar Pradesh | Ghazipur | Afzal Ansari |
| 144 | Uttar Pradesh | Bijnor | Shahid Siddiqui |
| 145 | Uttar Pradesh | Fatehpur | Mahesh Prasad Nishad |
| 146 | Uttar Pradesh | Firozabad | SP Singh Baghel |
| 147 | Uttar Pradesh | Hamirpur | Vijay Bahadur Singh |
| 148 | Uttar Pradesh | Deoria | Gorakh Prasad Jaiswal |
| 149 | Uttar Pradesh | Hardoi | Dr Ramkumar Kureel |
| 150 | Uttar Pradesh | Baghpat | Mukesh Sharma |
| 151 | Uttar Pradesh | Jalaun | Tilak Chandr Ahirwar |
| 152 | Uttar Pradesh | Jhansi | Pundit Ramesh Kumar Sharma |
| 153 | Uttar Pradesh | Kanpur | Sukhda Mishra |
| 154 | Uttar Pradesh | Kairana | Tabassum Beg |
| 155 | Uttar Pradesh | Machhlishahr | Kamla Kant Gautam |
| 156 | Uttar Pradesh | Amroha | Maudud Madni |
| 157 | Uttar Pradesh | Rampur | Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi |
| 158 | Uttar Pradesh | Kannauj | Mahesh Chandra Verma |
| 159 | Uttar Pradesh | Kheri | Iliyas Azmi |
| 160 | Uttar Pradesh | Bulandshahr | Rajkumar Gautam |
| 161 | Uttar Pradesh | Nagina | Ram Kishan Singh |
| 162 | Uttar Pradesh | Kaushambi | Girish Chandra Pasi |
| 163 | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad | Amarpal Sharma |
| 164 | Uttar Pradesh | Gautam Budhha Nagar | Surendra Singh Nagar |
| 165 | Uttar Pradesh | Khusi Nagar | Swami Prasad Maurya |
| 166 | Uttar Pradesh | Shrawasti | Rizwan Zaheer |
| 167 | Uttar Pradesh | Fatehpur Sikri | Seema Upadhyay |
| 168 | Uttar Pradesh | Badaun | Dp Yadav |
| 169 | Uttar Pradesh | Amethi | Ashish Shukla |
| 170 | Uttar Pradesh | Sultanpur | Mohammad Tahir |
| 171 | Uttar Pradesh | Pratapgarh | Shivkant Ojha |
| 172 | Uttar Pradesh | Allahabad | Ashok Kumar Bajpai |
| 173 | Uttar Pradesh | Faizabad | Vimlendra Mohan Pratap Mishra |
| 174 | Uttar Pradesh | Ambedkar Nagar | Rakesh Pandey |
| 175 | Uttar Pradesh | Kaiserganj | Surendra Nath Awasthi |
| 176 | Uttar Pradesh | Basti | Arvind Chowdhury |
| 177 | Uttar Pradesh | Jaunpur | Dhananjay SIngh |
| 178 | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly | Islam Sabir Ansari |
| 179 | Uttar Pradesh | Bansgaon | Srinath Advocate |
| 180 | Uttar Pradesh | Maharajganj | Ganesh Shankar Pandey |
| 181 | Uttar Pradesh | Misrikh | Ashok Rawat |
| 182 | Uttar Pradesh | Meerut | Maluk Nagar |
