2013 elections in India

Legislative Assembly elections in India were conducted for nine legislative assemblies in 2013. Voting in Chhattisgarh was held in two phases on 11 November and 19 November 2013.[1] The Election Commission of India (ECI) successfully conducted elections in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland in February[2] and in Karnataka on 5 May. The elections in Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were conducted in December while the counting that took place on 8 December showed a clear majority for BJP in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, while Congress retained the state of Mizoram and Delhi got a hung assembly, with no single party getting a clear majority.[3]

Legislative Assembly

Tripura

Tripura

Tripura had assembly elections on 14 February 2013. The eleventh general election to the Tripura Vidhan Saudha started after Tripura's Chief Election Officer of the election department, Ashutosh Jindal, announced the event on 11 January.[2] According to the report by The Times of India, the chief election officer of the state told that the voter turnout across the state was 93.57%, which set the record for the country's highest-ever voter turnout,[4] beating the previous record of 91.22 which was also set by Tripura in its 2008 assembly election.[5]

 Summary of results of the Tripura Legislative Assembly election, 2013 [6]

	Political Party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		55	49	3	81.67	10,59,327	48.11	-
	Indian National Congress		48	10	0	16.67	8,04,457	36.53	-
	Communist Party of India		2	1	0	1.67	34,500	1.57	-
			Total	60	Voters	23,58,493	Turnout	22,02,065 ( 93.57 %)

Meghalaya

Meghalaya

Meghalaya held elections on 23 February to elect its 21st government. Meghalaya had a voter turnout of 71.24%.[2] Results: INC - 29, UDP - 7 (out of 60) [7]

S. No.	Party	Seats won	Seats change
1	Indian National Congress	29	4
2	Independents	13	8
3	United Democratic Party	8	3
4	Hill State People's Democratic Party	4	2
5	Nationalist Congress Party	2	13
6	National Peoples Party	2	2
7	Garo National Council	1	1
8	North East Social Democratic Party	1	1
	Total	60

Nagaland

Nagaland

Nagaland held elections on 23 February, with a voter turnout of 92%.[2][7]

S. No.	Party	Seats won	Seats change
1	Naga People's Front	37	11
2	Indian National Congress	8	15
3	Independents	8	1
4	Nationalist Congress Party	4	2
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	1	1
6	Janata Dal (United)	1	1
	Total	59

Karnataka

Karnataka

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held in single phase on 5 May 2013 in all the 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka.[8][9]

← Summary of the 5 May 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−	%
	Indian National Congress (INC)	11,473,025	36.6	1.8	223	122	43	54.46
	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))	6,329,158	20.2	1.1	222	40	12	17.86
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	6,236,227	19.9	13.9	222	40	72	17.86
	Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP)	3,069,207	9.8	9.8	204	6	6	2.68
	Independents (IND)	2,313,386	7.4	0.5	1217	9	3	4.02
	Badagara Shramika Raitala Congress (BSRCP)	844,588	2.7	2.7	176	4	4	1.79
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	105,948	0.3	0.6	27	1	1	0.45
	Karnataka Makkala Paksha (KMP)	55,867	0.2	0.2	7	1	1	0.44
	Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha (SKP)	109,039	0.4	0.1	6	1	1	0.44
Other parties and candidates		816,009	2.6		644	0		0.0
Total		31,352,454	100.00		2948	224	±0	100.0
Valid votes		31,352,454	99.91
Invalid votes		28,682	0.09
Votes cast / turnout		31,381,136	71.83
Abstentions		12,304,603	28.17
Registered voters		43,685,739
Source: Election Commission of India[10]

Delhi

Delhi

The Delhi State Assembly elections of 2013 were held on 4 December 2013. Counting of votes was done on 8 December 2013.[11] The voter turnout was 66%, highest for the state till date.[12] The BJP emerged as the single-largest party, closely followed by the debutant Aam Aadmi Party. The Indian National Congress party, which governed the state for the last three consecutive terms, finished third.

 Summary of results of the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election [13]

	Political party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net change in seats	% of seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
	Bharatiya Janata Party		66	31	8	44.29	26,04,100	33.07	3
	Aam Aadmi Party		69	28	New	40.0	23,22,330	29.49	New
	Indian National Congress		70	8	35	11.43	19,32,933	24.55	15
	Janata Dal (United)		27	1	1	1.43	68,818	0.87	New
	Shiromani Akali Dal		4	1	1	1.42	71,757	1	N/A
	Independents		225	1	0	1.42		10	N/A
			Total	70	Voters	76,99,800	Turnout	66 %

Rajasthan

Rajasthan

The Rajasthan State Assembly elections of 2013 were held on 1 December 2013 with voter turnout in 200* constituencies being 74.38%, the highest ever for the state. The counting was done on 8 December 2013.[14] The main contest was between incumbent Indian National Congress and main opposition party Bhartiya Janta Party.

Out of the total number of candidates, there were 166 women and one eunuch contesting the polls.

← Summary of the 1 December 2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−	%
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	13,939,203	45.2	10.9	200	163	85	81.5
	Indian National Congress (INC)	10,204,694	33.1	3.7	200	21	75	10.5
	Independents (IND)	2,533,224	8.2	6.8	758	7	7	3.5
	National People's Party (NPEP)	1,312,402	4.3	4.3	134	4	4	2.0
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	1,041,241	3.4	4.2	195	3	3	1.5
	National Unionist Zamindara Party (NUZP)	312,653	1.0	1.0	25	2	2	1.0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM)	269,002	0.9	0.7	38	0	3	0.0
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	118,911	0.4	0.4	56	0	1	0.0
	Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))	59,673	0.2	0.3	15	0	1	0.0
Other parties and candidates		479,700	1.4	2.0	573	0	1	0.0
None of the Above (NOTA)		589,923	1.9	1.9
Total		30,860,626	100.00		2194	200	±0	100.0
Valid votes		30,860,626	99.89
Invalid votes		35,113	0.11
Votes cast / turnout		30,895,739	75.67
Abstentions		9,933,573	24.33
Registered voters		40,829,312
Source: Election Commission of India[15]

*Elections in constituency Churu were adjourned due to death of a BSP candidate, Shri Jagdish.[16]

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

The Madhya Pradesh State Assembly elections of 2013 were held on 25 November 2013 and counting was done on 8 December 2013.[11] The State Election Commission said that Madhya Pradesh registered highest ever polling of above 70% in 2013. The previous high turn-out in MP was 69.58 percent in the 2008 assembly elections.[17]

The main contest was between incumbent Bhartiya Janta Party and main opposition party Indian National Congress. However, BJP was the winner with more than 70% of majority in the assembly elections. Shivraj Singh Chouhan is likely to be the Chief Minister of the state for 3rd consecutive time.

Summary of the 1 December 2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2013 election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	15,191,335	44.88		230	165
	Indian National Congress (INC)	12,315,253	36.38		229	58
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	2,128,333	6.29		227	4	3
	Independents (IND)	1,820,251	5.38		1096	3
None of the Above (NOTA)		643,171	1.90	1.9
Total		33,852,504	100.00		2813	230	±
Valid votes		33,852,504	99.86
Invalid votes		47,451	0.14
Votes cast / turnout		33,900,955	72.69
Abstentions		12,735,833	27.31
Registered voters		46,636,788
Source: Election Commission of India[18]

Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh

The Chhattisgarh State Assembly elections of 2013 [19] were held in two phases, first on 11 November 2013 and second on 19 November 2013 and counting was done on 8 December 2013.[11] The main contest was between incumbent Bhartiya Janta Party and main opposition party Indian National Congress.

← Summary of the 11-19 November 2013 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−	%
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	5,365,272	41.0	0.7	90	49	1	54.44
	Indian National Congress (INC)	5,267,698	40.3	1.7	90	39	1	43.33
	Independents (IND)	697,267	5.3	3.2	355	1	1	1.11
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	558,424	4.3	1.8	90	1	1	1.11
	Chattisgarh Swabhiman Manch (CSM)	226,167	1.7	1.7	54	0		0.00
	Gondvana Gantantra Party (GGP)	205,325	1.6		44	0		0.00
	Other parties and candidates	352,622	2.7	2.2	353	0		0.00
	None of the Above (NOTA)	401,058	3.1	3.1
Total		13,073,833	100.00		1076	90	±0	100.0
Valid votes		12,672,775	99.90
Invalid votes		12,051	0.10
Votes cast / turnout		13,085,884	77.45
Abstentions		4,222,987	22.55
Registered voters		16,895,762
Source: Election Commission of India[20]

Mizoram

Mizoram

The Mizoram State Assembly Elections 2013 was held on 25 November 2013 and the counting was done on 9 December 2013.[21]

 Summary of results of the Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2013 [22]

	Political Party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
	Indian National Congress		-	34	2	85.0		-
	Mizo National Front		-	5	2	12.5		-
	Mizoram People's Conference		-	1	1	2.5		-
			Total	40	Voters		Turnout	81%

Local body elections

• 2013 Uttarakhand local body elections

See also

• V. S. Sampath

References

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External links

• Election Commission of India