2015 elections in India

The elections in India in 2015 include the two state legislative assembly elections. The tenures of the state legislative assembly of Bihar were due to expire during the year, and the Delhi Legislative Assembly re-election would also be held due to the inability to form the government.^[1]

Legislative Assembly election edit

Delhi edit

Delhi

The assembly state elections in Delhi were held in a single phase on 7 February, followed by counting on 10 February.^[2]

Summary of the 7 February 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election results
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−	%
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	48,78,397	54.3	24.8	70	67	39	95.7
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	28,90,485	32.2	0.8	69	3	28	4.2
	Indian National Congress (INC)	8,66,814	9.7	14.9	70	0	8	0.0
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	117,093	1.3	4.1	70	0		0.0
	Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)	54,464	0.6		2	0		0.0
	Independents (IND)	47,623	0.5	2.4	222	0	1	0.0
	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)	44,880	0.5	0.5	1	0	1	0.0
Other parties and candidates		42,589	0.5	2.1	376	0		0.0
None of the Above (NOTA)		35,924	0.4

Total		89,78,269	100.00		880	70	±0	100.0

Valid votes		89,42,372	99.56
Invalid votes		39,856	0.44
Votes cast / turnout		89,82,228	67.47
Abstentions		43,31,067	32.53
Registered voters		1,33,13,295

Source: Election Commission of India^[3]

Background edit

In the 2013 Delhi state elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (along with its pre-poll ally Shiromani Akali Dal) emerged as the single-largest party, winning 32 out of the 70 seats. However they fell short of an outright majority and therefore were unable to form the government. This led the then Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung to invite the Aam Aadmi Party, the second largest party after the BJP, to form the government.^[4] On 28 December 2013, AAP formed the state government after taking outside support from the Indian National Congress.^[5] AAP's leader Arvind Kejriwal, who defeated the incumbent chief minister Sheila Dikshit, became the 7th chief minister of Delhi. However, on 14 February 2014 (after 49 days of rule), Arvind Kejriwal resigned from his post citing the reason as his government's inability to table the Jan Lokpal Bill in Delhi Assembly for discussion due to stiff opposition from other political parties in the house.

Delhi remained thereafter under President's Rule for about a year. On 4 November 2014, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung recommended the Union Cabinet the dissolution of Delhi assembly and conduct fresh elections.^[6]^[7] On 12 January 2015, the Election Commission of India announced that state assembly elections would be held on 7 February 2015 with results being announced on 10 February 2015.^[8]

Bihar edit

Bihar

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar expired on 29 November 2015.

Summary of results of the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election^[9]^[10]
Alliance			Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %	Vote % in seats contested	Seats contested	Won	Net change in seats	% of seats
	Mahagathbandhan	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,995,509	18.4	0.44	44.35	101	80	58	32.92
		Janata Dal (United)	6,416,414	16.8	5.81	40.65	101	71	44	29.21
		Indian National Congress	2,539,638	6.7	1.68	39.49	41	27	23	11.11
	NDA	Bharatiya Janata Party	9,308,015	24.4	7.94	37.48	157	53	38	21.81
		Lok Janshakti Party	1,840,834	4.8	1.95	28.79	42	2	1	0.82
		Rashtriya Lok Samata Party	976,787	2.6	-	0.64	23	2	2	0.82
		Hindustani Awam Morcha	864,856	2.3	-	26.90	21	1	1	0.41
	Left Front	Communist Party of India	516,699	1.36	0.29	3.43	98	0	1	0
		CPI(ML) Liberation	587,701	1.54	0.29	3.82	98	3	3	1.23
		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	232,149	0.61	0.21	3.32	43	0		0
		Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	11,621	0.03	0.02	0.74	10	0		0
		All India Forward Bloc	6,936	0.02	0.00	0.21	9	0		0
		Revolutionary Socialist Party	3,045	0.01	0.00	0.64	3	0		0
	Socialist Secular Morcha	Samajwadi Party	385,511	1.0	0.45	1.83	85	0		0
		Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)	514,748	1.4	—	—	64	0		0
		Nationalist Congress Party	185,437	0.5	1.32	2.82	40	0		0
		Samras Samaj Party	—	—	—	—	28	0		0
		Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic	—	—	—	—	23	0		0
		National People's Party	—	—	—	—	3	0		0
	Others	Bahujan Samaj Party	788,024	2.1	1.11	2.21	243	0		0
		Shiv Sena	211,131	0.6	0.21	1.84	150	0		0
		Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	108,851	0.3	—	0.91	90	0		0
		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	103,940	0.3	0.31	2.02	—	0		0
		Garib Janata Dal (Secular)	92,279	0.2	—	0.66	—	0		0
		All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	80,248	0.2	—	8.04	6	0		0
		Independents	3,580,953	9.4	3.82	9.57	1150	4	2	1.64
		NOTA	947,276	2.5	—	2.49	243	—	—	—
Total		37,673,594	100.00			243

Valid votes		37,673,594	99.94
Invalid votes		23,384	0.06
Votes cast / turnout		37,673,594	56.91
Abstentions		2,85,46,215	43.09
Registered voters		6,62,43,193

Parliamentary by-election edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MP before election		Elected MP
1	13 February 2015	Bangaon	Kapil Krishna Thakur	All India Trinamool Congress	Mamata Thakur	All India Trinamool Congress
2	21 November 2015	Warangal	Kadiyam Srihari	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Pasunuri Dayakar	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
3	21 November 2015	Ratlam	Dileep Singh Bhuria	Bharatiya Janata Party	Kantilal Bhuria	Indian National Congress

Assembly by-elections edit

Andhra Pradesh edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Tirupati	M.Venkataramana		Telugu Desam Party	M Suguna		Telugu Desam Party

Arunachal Pradesh edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Liromba	Jarbom Gamlin		Indian National Congress	Nyamar Karbak		Indian National Congress

Goa edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Panaji	Manohar Parrikar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Sidharth Kuncalienker		Bharatiya Janata Party

Jharkhand edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	14 December 2015	Lohardaga	Kamal Kishore Bhagat		All Jharkhand Students Union	Sukhdeo Bhagat		Indian National Congress

Kerala edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	27 June 2015	Aruvikkara	G. Karthikeyen		Indian National Congress	K. S. Sabarinadhan		Indian National Congress

Madhya Pradesh edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	27 June 2015	Garoth	Rajesh Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party	Chander Singh Sisodia		Bharatiya Janata Party

Maharashtra edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	13 February 2015	Mukhed	Govind Rathod	Bharatiya Janata Party	Tushar Rathod	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	11 April 2015	Tasgaon	R. R. Patil	Nationalist Congress Party	Suman Patil	Nationalist Congress Party
3	11 April 2015	Vandre East	Prakash Sawant	Shiv Sena	Trupti Sawant	Shiv Sena

Manipur edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 November 2015	Thongju	Thongam Biswajit Singh		All India Trinamool Congress	Thongam Biswajit Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2	21 November 2015	Thangmeiband	Khumukcham Joykishan		All India Trinamool Congress	Khumukcham Joykishan		Bharatiya Janata Party

Meghalaya edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	27 June 2015	Chokpot	Clifford Marak		Garo National Council	Bluebell Sangma		Indian National Congress
2	21 November 2015	Nongstoin	Hopingstone Lyngdoh		Hill State People's Democratic Party	Diostar Jyndiang		Hill State People's Democratic Party

Mizoram edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 November 2015	Aizawl North 3	Lal Thanzara		Indian National Congress	Lal Thanzara		Indian National Congress

Tamil Nadu edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Srirangam	J. Jayalalithaa		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	S. Valarmathi		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2	27 June 2015	Radhakrishnan Nagar	P. Vetriivel		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	J. Jayalalithaa		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Tripura edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	27 June 2015	Pratapgarh	Anil Sarkar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Ramu Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2	27 June 2015	Surma	Sudhir Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Anjan Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Uttar Pradesh edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	11 April 2015	Charkhari	Kaptan Singh		Samajwadi Party	Urmila Rajput		Samajwadi Party
2	30 April 2015	Pharenda	Bajrang Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vinod Tiwari		Samajwadi Party

West Bengal edit

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Krishnaganj	Sushil Biswas		All India Trinamool Congress	Satyajit Biswas		All India Trinamool Congress

References edit

^ "Terms of Houses, Election Commission of India". Retrieved 30 July 2014.
^ "Delhi to go to polls on 7 February, counting on 10 February: EC". The Times of India. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "BJP rejects offer to form govt". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
^ "Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Admi Party to be Delhi's new chief minister". Livemint. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
^ "President Dissolves Delhi Assembly, Fresh Polls in 2015". Outlook. 5 November 2014.
^ "Delhi assembly dissolved, by-polls cancelled". The Times of India. The Times Group. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
^ "EC cracks whip as Delhi goes to polls". The Hindu. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
^ "Partywise Result". eciresults.nic.in. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
^ "Statistical Report on General Lection, [sic] 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2016.

External links edit

Election Commission of India

[1] "Terms of Houses, Election Commission of India". Retrieved 30 July 2014.

[test-2] "Delhi to go to polls on 7 February, counting on 10 February: EC". The Times of India. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "BJP rejects offer to form govt". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

[5] "Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Admi Party to be Delhi's new chief minister". Livemint. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

[6] "President Dissolves Delhi Assembly, Fresh Polls in 2015". Outlook. 5 November 2014.

[7] "Delhi assembly dissolved, by-polls cancelled". The Times of India. The Times Group. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.

[polldate-8] "EC cracks whip as Delhi goes to polls". The Hindu. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.

[9] "Partywise Result". eciresults.nic.in. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

[10] "Statistical Report on General Lection, [sic] 2015 to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2016.

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