State Assembly elections in India, 2005
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Elections to the State Legislative Assemblies were held in three India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n states during February 2005, Bihar, Haryana and Jharkhand. In Haryana
Haryana
Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...

 the Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

 won a landslide victory, dethroning the long-time Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala
Om Prakash Chautala
Om Prakash Chautala is an Indian politician from the state of Haryana and the leader of the Indian National Lok Dal political party. He is a former Chief Minister of Haryana. Presently, he is the Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha.Chautala is the son of Chaudhari Devi Lal, a former...

. In Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

 and Jharkhand
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

 there was a fractured verdict. Since no government could be formed in Bihar, fresh elections were held in October-November the same year.

February

Party No. of candidates No. of elected No. of votes %
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

103 37 2686290 10,97%
Bahujan Samaj Party
Bahujan Samaj Party
The Bahujan Samaj Party is a centrist national political party in India with socialist leanings. It was formed to chiefly represent Bahujans , referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes as well as Buddhists. The party claims to be inspired by the...

238 2 1080745 4,41%
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

17 3 386236 1,58%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

12 1 156656 0,64%
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

84 10 1223835 5,00%
Nationalist Congress Party
Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party is a centre to centre left political party primarily based in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Background:...

31 3 240862 0,98%
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand. Janta Dal party mentor and patron is "Veteran Socialist leader" George Fernandes; George Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994. Presently it is led...

138 55 3564930 14,55%
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a state political party in the state Jharkhand, India. It has a strength of 2 in the 15th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of JMM...

18 0 76671 0,31%
Rashtriya Janata Dal
Rashtriya Janata Dal
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is a political party in India, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. The party came about as a result of Lalu Prasad Yadav, ex-president of Janata Dal, being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the then president, on corruption charges ...

210 75 6140223 25,07%
All India Forward Bloc
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...

3 0 5555 0,03%
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India Liberation is a communist political party in India.Communist Party of India was formed in 1969 by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, who had split from Communist Party of India in 1967...

109 7 610345 2,49%
Janata Dal (Secular)
Janata Dal (Secular)
The Janata Dal is a Centre-left ಕನ್ನಡ: ಜನತಾ ದಳIndian political party led by former Prime Minister of India H.D. Deve Gowda.The party recognized as state party in the states of Karnataka and Kerala . It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party. It has political presence mainly in...

4 0 22428 0,09%
Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League is a state political party in the state of Kerala, India. The chief support base of the party falls inside northern and central Kerala...

1 0 4225 0,02%
Rashtriya Lok Dal
Rashtriya Lok Dal
Rashtriya Lok Dal is a political party in India. Ajit Singh is the party president. He is carrying on the political legacy of Charan Singh and the original Lok Dal..Ch. Charan Singh was a great farmer leader and was a former Prime Minister of India...

23 0 25618 0,10%
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena , is a political party in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Balasaheb Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray...

26 0 25698 0,10%
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...

142 4 658791 2,69%
Adarsh Political Party 1 0 736 0,00%
Akhil Bharatiya Ashok Sena 1 0 858 0,00%
Akhil Bharatiya Desh Bhakt Morcha 1 0 326 0,00%
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha 5 0 4603 0,02%
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. The party claims to be the authentic Bharatiya Jan Sangh, which is the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party. ABJS was founded by Balraj Madhok, a former general secretary of BJS who had been expelled from that party in...

19 0 10990 0,04%
Apna Dal
Apna Dal
Apna Dal, a political party in India. It is based amongst the Kurmi caste. Its main base is in central Uttar Pradesh. Apna Dal was founded by Sone Lal Patel....

64 0 73109 0,30%
All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist)
All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist)
All India Forward Bloc , an Indian political party. AIFB is a splinter-group of Tamil Nadu Forward Bloc. AIFB is mainly concentrated in Southern India, in states as Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The party general secretary is K. Kandasamy....

1 0 27045 0,11%
Akhand Jharkhand People's Front
Akhand Jharkhand People's Front
Akhand Jharkhand People's Front, a political party in India. The convenor of AJPF is ex-MP Pratap Singh....

7 0 9800 0,04%
Awami Party 3 0 24400 0,10%
Bajjikanchal Vikas Party 4 0 4693 0,02%
Bharatiya Momin Front 3 0 2008 0,01%
Bharat Mangalam Parishad 1 0 397 0,00%
Federal Congress of India 2 0 1752 0,01%
Gondvana Ganatantra Party 1 0 1460 0,01%
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party is a political party of India that was established by Dr. Udit Raj.-External links:* *...

15 0 20227 0,08%
Indian Union Muslim League 1 0 758 0,00%
Jai Hind Party 1 0 1467 0,01%
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Mazdoor Congress
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Mazdoor Congress
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Mazdoor Congress, a political party in India, launched on December 10, 2004 by former Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Sunil Shastri ....

7 0 6695 0,03%
Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

2 0 1071 0,00%
Janhit Samaj Party
Janhit Samaj Party
The Janhit Samaj Party is a political party in India. The party was founded in 2003 by Narendra singh Kushwaha, the former President of Janta Party bihar....

4 0 4770 0,02%
Jawan Kisan Morcha 5 0 2705 0,01%
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party is a political party in India. The party works for the rights of the adivasi peoples. For example the party works for more quotas and reservations for adivasis...

10 0 18717 0,08%
Kamjor Varg Sangh, Bihar 1 0 1529 0,01%
Kosi Vikas Party 1 0 19267 0,08%
Krantikari Samyavadi Party
Krantikari Samyavadi Party
Krantikari Samyavadi Party is an Indian political party in the state of Bihar.KSP was formed as a splinter-group from Communist Party of India. KSP wanted to continue cooperation with Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal....

8 0 10327 0,04%
Lok Dal 3 0 1496 0,01%
Lok Janshakti Party
Lok Janshakti Party
The Lok Jan Shakti Party is a state political party in the state Bihar , India. It is led by Ram Vilas Paswan. The party was formed in 2000 when Paswan split from Janata Dal . The party has considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. The 2004 Lok Sabha elections marked a major break-through for...

178 29 3091173 12,62%
Lok Sewa Dal 3 0 1807 0,01%
Lokpriya Samaj Party 3 0 3438 0,01%
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party , a minor socialist party in India, mainly active in the northern and central parts of the country. Raghu Thakur is party president. LSP is often involved in "third fronts" in elections....

1 0 1774 0,1%
Marxist Communist Party of India
Marxist Communist Party of India
Marxist Communist Party of India, MCPI was a political party in India. It emerged as a splinter-group of Communist Party of India . The party general secretary was Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri ....

3 0 3420 0,01%
National Loktantrik Party
National Loktantrik Party
National Loktantrik Party has been merged in Samajwadi Party on 15 March 2010 when its leader Dr Masood Ahmad joined the Samajwadi in the presence of Shri Mulayam Singh national president of the party....

5 0 4003 0,02%
Navbharat Nirman Party 1 0 2220 0,01%
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party, a political party in Uttar Pradesh, India. PMSP is based amongst the Bind and Mallah communities....

1 0 1011 0,00%
Proutist Sarva Samaj Party 3 0 3075 0,01%
Rashtravadi Janata Party
Rashtravadi Janata Party
The Rashtravadi Janata Party , is a political party in India. The RJP is led by party president Anil Bharati....

9 0 11227 0,05%
Rashtriya Garib Dal 2 0 1802 0,01%
Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi Party 4 0 3908 0,02%
Rashtriya Lok Seva Morcha 15 0 21571 0,09%
Rashtriya Samanta Dal
Rashtriya Samanta Dal
Rashtriya Samanta Dal, a political party in India, based in the Hindi belt. It is a splinter-group of the Bahujan Samaj Party. The party is led by Sukhlal Kushwah.The party is based amongst the Khushwaha caste community....

3 0 2891 0,01%
Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party 10 0 23122 0,09%
Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Samajwadi Jana Parishad , is a political party in India. The party was founded in 1995 by Kishan Patnaik, Bhai Vaidya and many grassroot level political organisations who believed in creating an alternative political culture. Active members of the party cannot have any association with foreign...

5 0 5466 0,02%
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
Samajwadi Janata Party is a political party in India founded by former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar Singh known as Chandra Shekhar and led by him until his death on July 8, 2007...

31 0 60528 0,25%
Samata Party
Samata Party
The Samata Party is a political party in India. Initially formed as an offshoot of the Janata Dal in 1994 by Nitish Kumar and George Fernandes. The reason given was that the Janata Dal had shifted to casteism...

73 0 105438 0,43%
Sanatan Samaj Party 1 0 705 0,00%
Sarvhara Dal 1 0 1238 0,01%
Shoshit Samaj Dal 7 0 9303 0,04%
Shoshit Samaj Party 3 0 3729 0,02%
Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party 3 0 13655 0,06%
Independents 1493 17 3957945 16,16%
Total: 3193 243 24494763

October

Party No. of candidates No. of elected No. of votes %
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand. Janta Dal party mentor and patron is "Veteran Socialist leader" George Fernandes; George Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994. Presently it is led...

139 88 4819759 20.46%
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

102 55 3686720 15.65%
Rashtriya Janata Dal
Rashtriya Janata Dal
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is a political party in India, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. The party came about as a result of Lalu Prasad Yadav, ex-president of Janata Dal, being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the then president, on corruption charges ...

175 54 5525081 23.45%
Lok Jan Shakti Party 203 10 2615901 11.10%
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

51 9 1435449 6.09%
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) 85 5 559326 2.37%
Bahujan Samaj Party
Bahujan Samaj Party
The Bahujan Samaj Party is a centrist national political party in India with socialist leanings. It was formed to chiefly represent Bahujans , referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes as well as Buddhists. The party claims to be inspired by the...

212 4 981464 4.17%
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

35 3 491689 2.09%
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...

158 2 594266 2.52%
Nationalist Congress Party
Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party is a centre to centre left political party primarily based in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Background:...

8 1 186936 0.79%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

10 1 159906 0.68%
Akhil Jan Vikas Dal 7 1 49869 0.21%
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party is a political party of India that was established by Dr. Udit Raj.-External links:* *...

36 0 51004 0.22%
Shivsena 15 0 44562 0.19%
All India Forward Bloc
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...

3 0 42749 0.18%
Samata Party
Samata Party
The Samata Party is a political party in India. Initially formed as an offshoot of the Janata Dal in 1994 by Nitish Kumar and George Fernandes. The reason given was that the Janata Dal had shifted to casteism...

20 0 28374 0.12%
Kosi Vikas Party 1 0 27071 0.11%
Rashtriya Lok Dal
Rashtriya Lok Dal
Rashtriya Lok Dal is a political party in India. Ajit Singh is the party president. He is carrying on the political legacy of Charan Singh and the original Lok Dal..Ch. Charan Singh was a great farmer leader and was a former Prime Minister of India...

13 0 21998 0.09%
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Mazdoor Congress
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Mazdoor Congress
Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Mazdoor Congress, a political party in India, launched on December 10, 2004 by former Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Sunil Shastri ....

8 0 19045 0.08%
Ambedkar National Congress
Ambedkar National Congress
Ambedkar National Congress is a political party based in India. The party works for the rights of dalits. Mr. Mohammed Kazam Ali Khan is the founder and President of ANC....

8 0 14396 0.06%
Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party 2 0 11037 0.05%
Samajwadi Janata Party(Rashtriya) 8 0 12026 0.05%
Apna Dal
Apna Dal
Apna Dal, a political party in India. It is based amongst the Kurmi caste. Its main base is in central Uttar Pradesh. Apna Dal was founded by Sone Lal Patel....

8 0 9179 0.04%
Gondvana Gantantra Party 7 0 8756 0.04%
Janata Dal (Secular)
Janata Dal (Secular)
The Janata Dal is a Centre-left ಕನ್ನಡ: ಜನತಾ ದಳIndian political party led by former Prime Minister of India H.D. Deve Gowda.The party recognized as state party in the states of Karnataka and Kerala . It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party. It has political presence mainly in...

6 0 7672 0.03%
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...

3 0 5920 0.03%
Rashtravadi Janata Party
Rashtravadi Janata Party
The Rashtravadi Janata Party , is a political party in India. The RJP is led by party president Anil Bharati....

3 0 7150 0.03%
Shoshit Samaj Dal 7 0 6421 0.03%
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha 5 0 5135 0.02%
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. The party claims to be the authentic Bharatiya Jan Sangh, which is the precursor of the Bharatiya Janata Party. ABJS was founded by Balraj Madhok, a former general secretary of BJS who had been expelled from that party in...

8 0 5790 0.02%
Bharatiya Ekta Dal 2 0 3815 0.02%
Buddhiviveki Vikas Party 3 0 4096 0.02%
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party is a political party in India. The party works for the rights of the adivasi peoples. For example the party works for more quotas and reservations for adivasis...

2 0 4351 0.02%
Proutist Sarva Samaj Party 2 0 3938 0.02%
Rashtriya Samanta Dal
Rashtriya Samanta Dal
Rashtriya Samanta Dal, a political party in India, based in the Hindi belt. It is a splinter-group of the Bahujan Samaj Party. The party is led by Sukhlal Kushwah.The party is based amongst the Khushwaha caste community....

2 0 4056 0.02%
Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party 2 0 1337 0.01%
Muslim League Kerala State Committee 2 0 1848 0.01%
Akhil Bharatiya Ashok Sena 1 0 1450 0.01%
Akhil Bharatiya Desh Bhakt Morcha 2 0 2690 0.01%
Amra Bangalee
Amra Bangalee
Amra Bangali is a political party in India. The movement believes in the values and objectives explained by the socioeconomic theory called PROUT, founded by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Presently it is involved in communal fight against the Gorkha's against Gorkhaland...

2 0 3104 0.01%
Awami Party 1 0 1833 0.01%
Jai Hind Party 1 0 1531 0.01%
Jawan Kisan Morcha 2 0 1864 0.01%
Jai Prakash Janata Dal 2 0 2710 0.01%
Krantikari Samyavadi Party
Krantikari Samyavadi Party
Krantikari Samyavadi Party is an Indian political party in the state of Bihar.KSP was formed as a splinter-group from Communist Party of India. KSP wanted to continue cooperation with Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal....

1 0 2721 0.01%
Lok Dal 2 0 2402 0.01%
Lok Sewa Dal 1 0 2557 0.01%
National Loktantrik Party
National Loktantrik Party
National Loktantrik Party has been merged in Samajwadi Party on 15 March 2010 when its leader Dr Masood Ahmad joined the Samajwadi in the presence of Shri Mulayam Singh national president of the party....

3 0 2632 0.01%
Rashtriya Kamjor Varg Party 1 0 1359 0.01%
Republican Party of India
Republican Party of India
The Republican Party of India is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. Ambedkar. The main base of RPI has traditionally been in Maharashtra....

1 0 2430 0.01%
Bajjikanchal Vikas Party 1 0 400 0.00%
Bharatiya Momin Front 1 0 445 0.00%
Bharat Mangalam Parishad 1 0 1069 0.00%
Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

1 0 942 0.00%
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party, a political party in Uttar Pradesh, India. PMSP is based amongst the Bind and Mallah communities....

1 0 407 0.00%
Rashtriya Garib Dal 1 0 1167 0.00%
Republican Party of India(A) 1 0 1089 0.00%
Samajik Jantantrik Party 1 0 553 0.00%
Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

746 10 2065744 8.77%
Total: 2135 243 23559191 100%

Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

Party No. of candidates No. of elected No. of votes %
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

198 79 7118658 28,33%
Bahujan Samaj Party
Bahujan Samaj Party
The Bahujan Samaj Party is a centrist national political party in India with socialist leanings. It was formed to chiefly represent Bahujans , referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes as well as Buddhists. The party claims to be inspired by the...

102 0 437564 1,74%
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

5 0 26223 0,10%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

5 1 92081 0,37%
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

224 65 8861959 35,27%
Janata Dal (Secular)
Janata Dal (Secular)
The Janata Dal is a Centre-left ಕನ್ನಡ: ಜನತಾ ದಳIndian political party led by former Prime Minister of India H.D. Deve Gowda.The party recognized as state party in the states of Karnataka and Kerala . It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party. It has political presence mainly in...

220 58 5220121 20,77%
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand. Janta Dal party mentor and patron is "Veteran Socialist leader" George Fernandes; George Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994. Presently it is led...

26 5 517904 2,06%
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, India. The party was founded by M. G. Ramachandran and is now headed by J. Jayalalithaa. The party headquarters is in Royapettah, Chennai, and was gifted to the party in 1986 by its...

2 0 16737 0,07%
All India Forward Bloc
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...

1 0 657 0,00%
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India Liberation is a communist political party in India.Communist Party of India was formed in 1969 by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, who had split from Communist Party of India in 1967...

2 0 2323 0,01%
Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League is a state political party in the state of Kerala, India. The chief support base of the party falls inside northern and central Kerala...

6 0 3698 0,01%
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena , is a political party in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Balasaheb Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray...

11 0 47805 0,19%
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...

15 0 11028 0,04%
All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist)
All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist)
All India Forward Bloc , an Indian political party. AIFB is a splinter-group of Tamil Nadu Forward Bloc. AIFB is mainly concentrated in Southern India, in states as Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The party general secretary is K. Kandasamy....

1 0 1099 0,00%
Ambedkar National Congress
Ambedkar National Congress
Ambedkar National Congress is a political party based in India. The party works for the rights of dalits. Mr. Mohammed Kazam Ali Khan is the founder and President of ANC....

2 0 1155 0,00%
Bharatiya Praja Paksha 1 0 228 0,00%
Bharatiya Peoples and National Security National Party 1 0 189 0,00%
Indian Christian Secular Party 1 0 111 0,00%
Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

155 0 504932 2,01%
Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha
Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha
Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha is a regional political party in Karnataka, India. KCVP has a staunch pro-Kannada position, for example in the Kaveri river water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu or against any bifurcation of the state. The party is led by Vatal Nagaraj....

5 1 38687 0,15%
Kannada Nadu Party
Kannada Nadu Party
Kannada Nadu Party is a political party in Karnataka,founded by vijay sankashwar India. It is now merged into Janata Dal .it contested election in 2006...

188 1 330547 1,32%
Karnataka Rajya Ryota Sangha 10 0 52874 0,21%
Lok Janshakti Party
Lok Janshakti Party
The Lok Jan Shakti Party is a state political party in the state Bihar , India. It is led by Ram Vilas Paswan. The party was formed in 2000 when Paswan split from Janata Dal . The party has considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. The 2004 Lok Sabha elections marked a major break-through for...

4 0 3775 0,02%
Manava Party 1 0 343 0,00%
Parcham Party of India
Parcham Party of India
The Parcham Party of India is a political party in India, representing the Muslim minority community. PPI was founded by the Indian Muslim Political Conference on 14 April 2003 at an "Azm-e-millat" convention in Aligarh...

1 0 2058 0,01%
Pyramid Party of India
Pyramid Party of India
The "Pyramid Party of India" was founded on 25 February, 1999. Brahmarshi Patriji is the founder of Pyramid Party Of India.-Objectives of PYMA:* Taking the Science of Meditation to the whole World by 2012...

3 0 2866 0,01%
Republican Party of India
Republican Party of India
The Republican Party of India is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. Ambedkar. The main base of RPI has traditionally been in Maharashtra....

3 1 25379 0,10%
Republican Party of India (Athvale)
Republican Party of India (Athvale)
The Republican Party of India is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India. The president of the party is Ramdas Athvale....

9 0 8483 0,03%
Sirpanch Samaj Party 3 0 4037 0,02%
Urs Samyuktha Paksha
Urs Samyuktha Paksha
Urs Samyuktha Paksha , political party in the Indian state of Karnataka. USP was founded by businessman Hari L. Khoday on January 16, 2004. The goal of USP is to work for the rights of the Backward Castes. USP considers that it upholds the legacy of the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Devaraj...

67 0 66319 0,26%
Independents 442 13 1724480 6,57%
Total: 1715 224 25129066

Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

Party No. of candidates No. of elected No. of votes %
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

133 38 5896713 34,82%
Biju Janata Dal
Biju Janata Dal
The Biju Janata Dal is a state political party of the Indian state of Orissa led by Naveen Patnaik, son of former state chief minister Biju Patnaik. It was founded on 27 December 1997.-History:...

84 61 4632280 27,36%
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

63 32 2898105 17,11%
Bahujan Samaj Party
Bahujan Samaj Party
The Bahujan Samaj Party is a centrist national political party in India with socialist leanings. It was formed to chiefly represent Bahujans , referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes as well as Buddhists. The party claims to be inspired by the...

86 0 326724 1,93%
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a state political party in the state Jharkhand, India. It has a strength of 2 in the 15th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of JMM...

12 4 301777 1,78%
Orissa Gana Parishad
Orissa Gana Parishad
Orissa Gana Parishad , a political party in the Indian state of Orissa, a splinter-group of Biju Janata Dal. The party was founded on October 29, 2000. The president of OGP is Bijoy Mahapatra. Mahapatra had been expelled from BJD in February 2000 on corruption charges...

4 2 217998 1,29%
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...

6 1 129989 0,77%
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...

29 0 99214 0,59%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

3 1 93159 0,55%
Janata Dal (Secular)
Janata Dal (Secular)
The Janata Dal is a Centre-left ಕನ್ನಡ: ಜನತಾ ದಳIndian political party led by former Prime Minister of India H.D. Deve Gowda.The party recognized as state party in the states of Karnataka and Kerala . It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party. It has political presence mainly in...

8 0 75223 0,44%
Republican Party of India
Republican Party of India
The Republican Party of India is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. Ambedkar. The main base of RPI has traditionally been in Maharashtra....

23 0 47831 0,28%
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India Liberation is a communist political party in India.Communist Party of India was formed in 1969 by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, who had split from Communist Party of India in 1967...

8 0 28531 0,17%
Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Samajwadi Jan Parishad
Samajwadi Jana Parishad , is a political party in India. The party was founded in 1995 by Kishan Patnaik, Bhai Vaidya and many grassroot level political organisations who believed in creating an alternative political culture. Active members of the party cannot have any association with foreign...

1 0 20365 0,12%
All Jharkhand Students Union
All Jharkhand Students Union
All Jharkhand Students Union, is a state political party of Jharkhand state, India. AJSU was founded June 22, 1986, modelled after All Assam Students Union. The founders of AJSU were disillusioned with the previous Jharkhandi political parties, and wanted more militant agitations.AJSU organized...

4 0 18982 0,11%
Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Party
Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Party
Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Party , political party in India. The party was formed in 2001 by the founder of the Indian Institute of Planning and Management Malayendra Kisor Chaudhury. The party claims to work for development in poor rural areas, and is a continuation of other organizations that...

10 0 12498 0,07%
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand. Janta Dal party mentor and patron is "Veteran Socialist leader" George Fernandes; George Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994. Presently it is led...

5 0 12080 0,07%
Kosal Party 4 0 11062 0,07%
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena , is a political party in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Balasaheb Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray...

4 0 10733 0,06%
Jharkhand Party
Jharkhand Party
Jharkhand Party, a political party in India. The party was founded on March 5, 1949 at a large conference in Ranchi. Jaipal Singh was elected president and Idsen Deba general secretary. JKP grew out of the demand for a separate Jharkhand state....

3 0 8751 0,05%
Janata Party
Janata Party
The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

4 0 8022 0,05%
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...

2 0 4469 0,03%
Rashtriya Janata Dal
Rashtriya Janata Dal
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is a political party in India, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. The party came about as a result of Lalu Prasad Yadav, ex-president of Janata Dal, being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the then president, on corruption charges ...

4 0 2942 0,02%
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
The Akhil Bhārat Hindū Mahāsabhā is a Hindu nationalist political party in India. It was founded in 1915, as an alternative for Hindus who were not attracted to the secular Indian National Congress and sought to oppose the Muslim separatism of the Muslim League.-Hindutva:The Mahasabha promoted the...

1 0 2159 0,01%
Lok Janshakti Party
Lok Janshakti Party
The Lok Jan Shakti Party is a state political party in the state Bihar , India. It is led by Ram Vilas Paswan. The party was formed in 2000 when Paswan split from Janata Dal . The party has considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. The 2004 Lok Sabha elections marked a major break-through for...

1 0 1621 0,01%
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party is a political party of India that was established by Dr. Udit Raj.-External links:* *...

1 0 1563 0,01%
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party is a political party in India. The party works for the rights of the adivasi peoples. For example the party works for more quotas and reservations for adivasis...

1 0 1489 0,01%
Proutist Sarva Samaj Party 1 0 1443 0,01%
Sirpanch Samaj Party 1 0 1251 0,01%
All India Forward Bloc
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...

1 0 832 0,00%
Independents 295 8 2065650 12,20%
Total: 802 147 16933456

Sikkim
Sikkim
Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains...

Party No. of candidates No. of elected No. of votes %
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

4 0 667 0,34%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

1 0 144 0,07%
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

28 1 51329 26,13%
Sikkim Democratic Front
Sikkim Democratic Front
Sikkim Democratic Front is a political party in the Indian state of Sikkim. The party was founded by Pawan Kumar Chamling in 1993. It has ruled the state since 1994 with Pawan Kumar Chamling as the chief minister. The party consolidated its position sweeping the 1999 and 2004 state elections. It...

32 31 139662 71,09%
Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad
Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad
Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad , a political party in the Indian state of Sikkim. The party president is Dr. A.D. Subba...

9 0 1123 0,57%
Sikkim Sangram Parishad 1 0 90 0,05%
Independents 16 0 3450 1,76%
Total: 91 32 196465
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