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]

Elections in India

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Legislative Assembly election

Delhi

Delhi

Main article: 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

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
		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

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

Bihar

Main article: 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

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		Political party		Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %	Vote % in seats contested	Seats contested	Won	Net change in seats	% of seats
	Mahagathbandhan		Rashtriya Janata Dal	69,95,509	18.4	0.44	44.35	101	80	58	32.92
			Janata Dal (United)	64,16,414	16.8	5.81	40.65	101	71	44	29.21
			Indian National Congress	25,39,638	6.7	1.68	39.49	41	27	23	11.11
	NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	93,08,015	24.4	7.94	37.48	157	53	38	21.81
			Lok Janshakti Party	18,40,834	4.8	1.95	28.79	42	2	1	0.82
			Rashtriya Lok Samata Party	9,76,787	2.6	-	0.64	23	2	2	0.82
			Hindustani Awam Morcha	8,64,856	2.3	-	26.90	21	1	1	0.41
	Left Front		Communist Party of India	5,16,699	1.36	0.29	3.43	98	0	1	0
			CPI(ML) Liberation	5,87,701	1.54	0.29	3.82	98	3	3	1.23
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,32,149	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	3,85,511	1.0	0.45	1.83	85	0		0
			Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)	5,14,748	1.4	—	—	64	0		0
			Nationalist Congress Party	1,85,437	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	7,88,024	2.1	1.11	2.21	243	0		0
			Shiv Sena	2,11,131	0.6	0.21	1.84	150	0		0
			Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	1,08,851	0.3	—	0.91	90	0		0
			Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1,03,940	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	35,80,953	9.4	3.82	9.57	1150	4	2	1.64
			NOTA	9,47,276	2.5	—	2.49	243	—	—	—
Total			3,76,73,594	100.00			243
Valid votes			3,76,73,594	99.94
Invalid votes			23,384	0.06
Votes cast / turnout			3,76,73,594	56.91
Abstentions			2,85,46,215	43.09
Registered voters			6,62,43,193

Parliamentary by-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
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		Ratlam	Dileep Singh Bhuria		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kantilal Bhuria		Indian National Congress

Assembly by-elections

Andhra Pradesh

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

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

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

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

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

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

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
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		Vandre East	Prakash Sawant		Shiv Sena	Trupti Sawant		Shiv Sena

Manipur

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		Thangmeiband	Khumukcham Joykishan			Khumukcham Joykishan

Meghalaya

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

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

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			J. Jayalalithaa

Tripura

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		Surma	Sudhir Das			Anjan Das

Uttarakhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	15 April 2015	Bhagwanpur	Surendra Rakesh		Bahujan Samaj Party	Mamta Rakesh		Indian National Congress

Uttar Pradesh

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

West Bengal

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

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

External links

• Election Commission of India