2019 elections in India

The elections held in India in 2019 includes the general election, by-elections to the Lok Sabha, elections to 7 state legislative assemblies and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies, councils and local bodies.^[1]

General Elections

General elections were held in India in April to May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. The BJP-led NDA won the elections.

The phase-wise schedule, the number of seats in each phase and their State-wise break-up:

Phase 1, 11 April 91 seats, 20 states

A.P. (all 25), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Assam (5), Bihar (4), Chhattisgarh (1) J&K (2), Maharashtra (7), Manipur (1), Meghalaya (2), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Odisha (4), Sikkim (1), Telangana (17), Tripura (1), U.P. (8), Uttarakhand (5), W.B. (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Lakshadweep (1)

Phase 2, 18 April 97 seats, 13 states

Assam (5), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (3), J&K (2), Karnataka (14) Maharashtra (10), Manipur (1), Odisha (5), Tamil Nadu. (all 39), Tripura (1), U.P. (8), West Bengal (3), Puducherry (1)

Phase 3, 23 April 115 seats, 14 states

Assam (4), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (7), Gujarat (all 26), Goa (all 2), J&K (1), Karnataka (14), Kerala (all 20), Maharashtra (14), Odisha (6), U.P. (10), West Bengal (5), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (1), Daman and Diu (1)

Phase 4, 29 April 71 seats, 9 states

Bihar (5), J&K (1), Jharkhand (3), M.P. (6), Maharashtra (17), Odisha (6), Rajasthan (13), U.P. (13), West Bengal (8)

Phase 5, 6 May 51 seats, 7 states

Bihar (5), Jharkhand (4), J&K (2), M.P. (7), Rajasthan (12), U.P. (14), West Bengal (7)

Phase 6, 12 May 59 seats, 7 states

Bihar (8), Haryana (10), Jharkhand (4), M.P. (8), U.P. (14), West Bengal (8), NCR (all 7)

Phase 7, 19 May 59 seats, 8 states

Bihar (8), Jharkhand (3), M.P. (8), Punjab (all 13), West Bengal (9), Chandigarh (1), U.P. (13), Himachal Pradesh (all 4)

Date of counting: May 23

Date	Country	Government before		Prime Minister before election	Government after		Elected Prime Minister
April to May 2019	India		National Democratic Alliance	Narendra Modi		National Democratic Alliance	Narendra Modi

Lok Sabha by-elections

S.No	Date	Constituency	State/UT	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election		Remarks
1	21 October 2019	Samastipur	Bihar	Ram Chandra Paswan		Lok Janshakti Party	Prince Raj		Lok Janshakti Party	Death of Ram Chandra Paswan^[2]
2	21 October 2019	Satara	Maharashtra	Udayanraje Bhosale		Nationalist Congress Party	Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil		Nationalist Congress Party	Resignation by Udayanraje Bhosale^[3]

Legislative assembly elections

2019 Indian Election Result Map

Assembly elections of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim, were held simultaneously with the general elections

Legislative assembly elections of Haryana, Maharashtra held on 21 October 2019.

Legislative assembly elections of Jharkhand were held between 30 November to 20 December.

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister
11 April 2019	Andhra Pradesh	Telugu Desam Party	N. Chandrababu Naidu	YSR Congress Party	Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy
11 April 2019	Arunachal Pradesh	Bharatiya Janata Party	Pema Khandu	Bharatiya Janata Party	Pema Khandu
11 April 2019	Arunachal Pradesh	National People's Party	Pema Khandu	Bharatiya Janata Party	Pema Khandu
11, 18, 23, 29 April 2019	Odisha	Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik
11 April 2019	Sikkim	Sikkim Democratic Front	Pawan Kumar Chamling	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha	Prem Singh Tamang
21 October 2019	Haryana	Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Lal Khattar	Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Lal Khattar
21 October 2019	Haryana	Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Lal Khattar	Jannayak Janata Party	Manohar Lal Khattar
21 October 2019	Maharashtra	Bharatiya Janata Party	Devendra Fadnavis	Shiv Sena	Uddhav Thackeray
		Bharatiya Janata Party		Nationalist Congress Party
		Shiv Sena^[4]		Indian National Congress
30 November; 7, 12, 16, 20 December 2019	Jharkhand	Bharatiya Janata Party	Raghubar Das	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Hemant Soren
30 November; 7, 12, 16, 20 December 2019	Jharkhand	Bharatiya Janata Party	Raghubar Das	Indian National Congress	Hemant Soren

Assembly By-elections

Arunachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 October 2019	Khonsa West	Tirong Aboh		National People's Party	Chakat Aboh		Independent

Assam

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	21 October 2019	Ratabari	Kripanath Mallah	Bharatiya Janata Party	Bijoy Malakar	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Rangapara	Pallab Lochan Das		Rajen Borthakur
3		Sonari	Topon Kumar Gogoi		Nabanita Handique
4		Jania	Abdul Khaleque	Indian National Congress	Rafiqul Islam	All India United Democratic Front

Bihar

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	11 April 2019	Nawada	Rajballabh Prasad	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Kaushal Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
2	19 May 2019	Dehri	Mohd. Iliyas Hussain	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Satyanarayan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	21 October 2019	Simri Bakhtiarpur	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)	Zafar Alam	Rashtriya Janata Dal
4		Belhar	Giridhari Yadav		Ramdeo Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
5		Daraunda	Kavita Singh		Karnjeet Singh	Independent
6		Nathnagar	Ajay Kumar Mandal		Lakshmikant Mandal	Janata Dal (United)
7		Kishanganj	Mohammad Jawed	Indian National Congress	Qamrul Hoda	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

Chhattisgarh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	23 September 2019	Dantewada	Bhima Mandavi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Devati Karma		Indian National Congress
2	21 October 2019	Chitrakot	Deepak Baij		Indian National Congress	Rajman Venjam		Indian National Congress

Gujarat

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	23 April 2019	Dharangadhra	Parsottam Ukabhai Sabariya	Indian National Congress	Parsottam Ukabhai Sabariya	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Jamnagar Rural	Vallabh Dharaviya		Raghavji Patel
3		Manavadar	Jawaharbhai Chavda		Jawaharbhai Chavda
4		Unjha	Asha Patel		Asha Patel
5	21 October 2019	Radhanpur	Alpesh Thakor		Raghubhai Merajbhai Desai	Indian National Congress
6		Bayad	Dhavalsinh Zala		Jashubhai Shivabhai Patel
7		Tharad	Parbatbhai Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party	Gulabsinh Pirabhai Rajput
8		Kheralu	Bharatsinhji Dabhi		Ajmalji Valaji Thakor	Bharatiya Janata Party
9		Amraiwadi	Hasmukhbhai Patel		Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel
10		Lunawada	Ratansinh Rathod	Independent	Jigneshkumar Sevak

Goa

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	23 April 2019	Mandrem	Dayanand Sopte	Indian National Congress	Dayanand Sopte	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Siroda	Subhash Shirodkar	Indian National Congress	Subhash Shirodkar
3		Mapusa	Francis Dsouza	Bharatiya Janata Party	Joshua D'Souza
4	19 May 2019	Panaji	Manohar Parrikar	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atanasio Monserrate	Indian National Congress

Haryana

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before elections	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	28 January 2019	Jind	Hari Chand Middha		Indian National Lok Dal	Krishan Lal Middha		Bharatiya Janata Party

Himachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 October 2019	Dharamshala	Kishan Kapoor		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vishal Nehria		Bharatiya Janata Party
2	21 October 2019	Pachhad	Suresh Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Reena Kashyap		Bharatiya Janata Party

Karnataka

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	23 April 2019	Kundgol	Channabasappa Satyappa Shivalli	Indian National Congress	Kusumavati Channabasappa Shivalli	Indian National Congress
2	23 April 2019	Chincholi	Umesh. G. Jadhav		Avinash Umesh Jadhav	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	5 December 2019	Athani	Mahesh Kumathalli		Mahesh Kumathalli
4		Kagwad	Shrimant Balasaheb Patil		Shrimant Balasaheb Patil
5		Gokak	Ramesh Jarkiholi		Ramesh Jarkiholi
6		Yellapur	Arbail Shivaram Hebbar		Arbail Shivaram Hebbar
7		Hirekerur	B. C. Patil		B. C. Patil
8		Vijayanagara	Anand Singh		Anand Singh
9		Chikkaballapur	Dr. K. Sudhakar		Dr. K. Sudhakar
10		K.R. Puram	Byrati Basavaraj		Byrati Basavaraj
11		Yeshvanthapura	S. T. Somashekhar		S. T. Somashekhar
12		Ranibennur	R. Shankar	Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party	Arun Kumar Guththur
13		Mahalakshmi Layout	K. Gopalaiah	Janata Dal (Secular)	K. Gopalaiah
14		Krishnarajpet	Narayana Gowda		Narayana Gowda
15		Hunsur	Adagur H. Vishwanath		H. P. Manjunath	Indian National Congress
16		Shivajinagar	R. Roshan Baig	Indian National Congress	Rizwan Arshad	Indian National Congress
17		Hosakote	M. T. B. Nagaraju	Indian National Congress	Sharath Kumar Bache Gowda	Independent

Kerala

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	23 September 2019	Pala	K. M. Mani	Kerala Congress (M)	Mani C. Kappan	Nationalist Congress Party
2	21 October 2019	Manjeshwaram	P. B. Abdul Razak	Indian Union Muslim League	M. C. Kamaruddin	Indian Union Muslim League
3		Aroor	A. M. Ariff	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Shanimol Usman	Indian National Congress
4		Ernakulam	Hibi Eden	Indian National Congress	T. J. Vinod	Indian National Congress
5		Konni	Adoor Prakash		K. U. Jenish Kumar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6		Vattiyoorkavu	K. Muraleedharan		V. K. Prasanth	Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Madhya Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	29 April 2019	Chhindwara	Deepak Saxena		Indian National Congress	Kamal Nath		Indian National Congress
2	21 October 2019	Jhabua	Guman Singh Damor		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kantilal Bhuria		Indian National Congress

Meghalaya

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	11 April 2019	Selsella	Clement Marak		Indian National Congress	Ferlin C. A. Sangma		National People's Party
2	21 October 2019	Shella	Donkupar Roy		United Democratic Party	Balajied Kupar Synrem		United Democratic Party

Mizoram

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	11 April 2019	Aizawl West I	Lalduhawma		Zoram People's Movement	Zothantluanga		Mizo National Front

Nagaland

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	11 April 2019	Aonglenden	Imtikumzuk Longkumer		Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party	Sharingain Longkumer		Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party

Odisha

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 October 2019	Bijepur	Naveen Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	Rita Sahu		Biju Janata Dal

Puducherry

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	18 April 2019	Thattanchavady	Ashok Anand		All India N.R. Congress	K. Venkatesan		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2	21 October 2019	Kamraj Nagar	V. Vaithilingam		Indian National Congress	A. Johnkumar		Indian National Congress

Punjab

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	21 October 2019	Phagwara	Som Parkash	Bharatiya Janata Party	Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal	Indian National Congress
2		Mukerian	Rajnish Kumar Babbi	Indian National Congress	Indu Bala
3		Jalalabad	Sukhbir Singh Badal	Shiromani Akali Dal	Raminder Singh Awla
4		Dakha	Harvinder Singh Phoolka	Aam Aadmi Party	Manpreet Singh Ayali	Shiromani Akali Dal

Rajasthan

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 October 2019	Mandawa	Narendra Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Rita Choudhary		Indian National Congress
2	21 October 2019	Khinwsar	Hanuman Beniwal		Rashtriya Loktantrik Party	Narayan Beniwal		Rashtriya Loktantrik Party

Sikkim

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	21 October 2019	Poklok-Kamrang	Pawan Kumar Chamling	Sikkim Democratic Front	Prem Singh Tamang	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
2		Martam-Rumtek	Dorjee Tshering Lepcha	Sikkim Democratic Front	Sonam Venchungpa	Bharatiya Janata Party
3		Gangtok	Kunga Nima Lepcha	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha	Yong Tshering Lepcha	Bharatiya Janata Party

Tamil Nadu

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	18 April 2019	Thiruvarur	M. Karunanidhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	K. Poondi Kalaivanan	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2		Ambur	R. Balasubramani	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	A. C. Vilwanathan
3		Andipatti	Thanga Tamil Selvan		A. Maharajan
4		Gudiyattam	C. Jayanthi Padmanabhan		S. Kathavarayan
5		Hosur	P. Balakrishna Reddy		S. A. Sathya
6		Perambur	P. Vetrivel		R. D. Sekar
7		Periyakulam	K. Kathirkamu		S. Saravana Kumar
8		Poonamallee	T. A. Elumalai		A. Krishnaswamy
9		Thanjavur	M. Rangaswamy		T. K. G. Neelamegam
10		Thiruporur	M. Kothandapani		L. Idhayavarman
11		Harur	R. Murugan		V. Sampathkumar	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
12		Manamadurai	S. Mariappankennady		S. Nagarajan
13		Nilakottai	R. Thangathurai		S. Thenmozhi
14		Pappireddyppatti	P. Palaniappan		A. Govindasamy
15		Paramakudi	S. Muthiah		N. Sadhan Prabhakar
16		Sattur	S. G. Subramanian		M. S. R. Rajavarman
17		Sholinghur	N. G. Parthiban		G. Sampathu
18		Vilathikulam	K. Uma Maheswari Reddiar		P. Chinnappa Reddiar
19	19 May 2019	Sulur	R. Kanagaraj		P. Kandasamy
20		Aravakurichi	V. Senthil Balaji		V. Senthil Balaji	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
21		Ottapidaram	R. Sundararaj		C. Shunmugaiah
22		Tirupparankundram	A. K. Bose		P. Saravanan
23	21 October 2019	Vikravandi	K. Rathamani	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	R. Muthamilselvan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
24	21 October 2019	Nanguneri	H. Vasanthakumar	Indian National Congress	V. Narayanan	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Telangana

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 October 2019	Huzurnagar	N.Uttam Kumar Reddy		Indian National Congress	Shanampudi Saidireddy		Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Tripura

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	23 September 2019	Badharghat	Dilip Sarkar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Mimi Majumder		Bharatiya Janata Party

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	29 April 2019	Nighasan	Patel Ramkumar Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	Shashank Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	19 May 2019	Agra North	Jagan Prasad Garg		Purshottam Khandelwal
3	23 September 2019	Hamirpur	Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel		Yuvraj Singh
4	21 October 2019	Gangoh	Pradeep Choudhary		Kirat Singh
5		Iglas	Rajvir Singh Diler		Rajkumar Sahyogi
6		Lucknow Cantt	Dr. Rita Bahuguna Joshi		Suresh Chandra Tiwari
7		Govindnagar	Satyadev Pachauri		Surendra Maithani
8		Manikpur	R. K. Singh Patel		Aanand Shukla
9		Balha	Akshaibar Lal		Saroj Sonkar
10		Ghosi	Phagu Chauhan		Vijay Rajbhar
11		Zaidpur	Upendra Singh Rawat		Gaurav Kumar	Samajwadi Party
12		Rampur	Mohammad Azam Khan	Samajwadi Party	Dr. Tazeen Fatma
13		Jalalpur	Ritesh Pandey	Bahujan Samaj Party	Subhash Rai
14		Pratapgarh	Sangam Lal Gupta	Apna Dal (Sonelal)	Rajkumar Pal	Apna Dal (Sonelal)

Uttarakhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	25 November 2019	Pithoragarh	Prakash Pant		Bharatiya Janata Party	Chandra Pant		Bharatiya Janata Party

West Bengal

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	18 April 2019	Islampur	Kanaiya Lal Agarwal	Indian National Congress	Abdul Karim Chowdhary	All India Trinamool Congress
2	18 April 2019	Darjeeling	Amar Singh Rai	Gorkha Janmukti Morcha	Neeraj Zimba	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	23 April 2019	Habibpur	Khagen Murmu	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Joyel Murmu	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	29 April 2019	Naoda	Abu Taher Khan	Indian National Congress	Sahina Mumtaz Begum	All India Trinamool Congress
5		Kandi	Apurba Sarkar	Indian National Congress	Shafiul Alam Khan	Indian National Congress
6		Krishnaganj	Satyajit Biswas	All India Trinamool Congress	Ashis Kumar Biswas	Bharatiya Janata Party
7	6 May 2019	Bhatpara	Arjun Singh		Pawan Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
8	6 May 2019	Uluberia Purba	Haider Aziz Safwi		Idris Ali	All India Trinamool Congress
9	25 November 2019	Karimpur	Mahua Moitra		Bimalendu Sinha Roy
10		Kaliaganj	Pramatha Ray	Indian National Congress	Tapan Deb Singha
11		Kharagpur	Dilip Ghosh	Bharatiya Janata Party	Pradip Sarkar

References

^ "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
^ "LJP MP Ram Chandra Paswan passes away". The Hindu. 21 July 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
^ "Udayanraje resigns as MP, joins BJP in presence of Fadnavis, Amit Shah". The Indian Express. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
^ "Shiv Sena formally joins BJP government in Maharashtra". India Today. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2019.

External links

Election Commission of India
Lok Sabha General Election 2019schedules, results and updates Archived 2 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine
Legislative Assembly Result | Live Updates Archived 12 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine
Lok Sabha General Election 2019 - Parliamentary Polls 2019 Latest News & Updates

[1] "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

[2] "LJP MP Ram Chandra Paswan passes away". The Hindu. 21 July 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 May 2023.

[3] "Udayanraje resigns as MP, joins BJP in presence of Fadnavis, Amit Shah". The Indian Express. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2023.

[4] "Shiv Sena formally joins BJP government in Maharashtra". India Today. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2019.

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