Election Result 2009

The mandate is loud and clear. India will see a government under a successive prime minister, Manmohan Singh, for the first time after Jawaharlal Nehru, in the 1950s. The Congress party’s 201-seat tally is the best ever by any party since 1991.

  Party WonUPA      CONG 206  DMK 18  NCP 9  TC 19  JMM 2  NC 3  Others 5  Total 262     NDA      BJP 116  JD(U) 20  SS 11  SAD 4  AGP 1  RLD 5  Total 157     Third Front      Left 22  BSP 21  JD(S) 3  AIADMK 9  TDP 6  TRS 2  BJD 14  Others 3  Total 80     Fourth Front      SP 23  RJD 4  Total 27     Other Parties   17     

With 262 seats, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) needs 11 additional MPs to cross the magic number of 272 needed for a majority in the parliament. Apart from the Congress party that won 206 seats on it’s own, the UPA consists of Sharad Pawar’s NCP, M. Karunanidhi’s DMK, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and Farooq Abdullah’s National Conference, who won the remaining 55.

State wise:

STATES / UTs (Seats) INC BJP Others

Andhra Pradesh   (42 / 42) 31 0 11

Arunachal Pradesh   (2 / 2) 2 0 0

Assam   (14 / 14) 7 4 3

Bihar   (40 / 40) 2 33 5

Chhattisgarh   (11 / 11) 3 8 0

Goa   (2 / 2) 1 1 0

Gujarat   (26 / 26) 10 16 0

Haryana   (10 / 10) 9 0 1

Himachal Pradesh   (4 / 4) 1 3 0

Jammu & Kashmir   (6 / 6) 4 0 2

Jharkhand   (14 / 14) 2 8 4

Karnataka   (28 / 28) 6 19 3

Kerala   (20 / 20) 13 0 7

Madhya Pradesh   (28 / 29) 11 17 0

Maharashtra   (48 / 48) 24 21 3

Manipur   (2 / 2) 2 0 0

Meghalaya   (2 / 2) 1 0 1

Mizoram   (1 / 1) 1 0 0

Nagaland   (1 / 1) 0 0 1

Orissa   (21 / 21) 6 2 13

Punjab   (13 / 13) 7 6 0

Rajasthan   (25 / 25) 20 4 1

Sikkim   (1 / 1) 1 0 0

Tamil Nadu   (39 / 39) 25 0 14

Tripura   (2 / 2) 0 0 2

Uttar Pradesh   (80 / 80) 22 15 43

Uttaranchal   (5 / 5) 5 0 0

West Bengal   (42 / 42) 25 1 16

UNION TERRITORIES

Andaman & Nicobar   (1 / 1) 0 1 0

Chandigarh   (1 / 1) 1 0 0

Dadra & Nagar Haveli   (1 / 1) 1 0 0

Daman & Diu   (1 / 1) 0 1 0

Lakshadweep   (1 / 1) 1 0 0

This herculean effort that lasted a month and enfranchised a fifth of humanity will definitely go down in Indian history as one of our successful endeavors. It was also one of the least violent elections in our nation’s history, clearly underlining the maturity of our election process if not our democratic process.

This election witnessed all parts of our nation participating enthusiastically. People defied boycott calls made by separatists in Kashmir and Maoists/Naxals in Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand.  People stood in extremely hot conditions to execute their right.