2017 elections in India

The elections in India in 2017 include the seven state legislative assembly elections.[1] [2]

Political map of India

Maps

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election	2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election	2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election	2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election
2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election	2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election	2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

State legislatures

Date	State			Elected leader
4 February 2017	Punjab	SAD	INC	Amarinder Singh (INC)
4 February 2017	Goa	BJP	BJP	Manohar Parrikar (BJP)
15 February 2017	Uttarakhand	INC	BJP	Trivendra Singh Rawat (BJP)
11 February 2017 to 9 March 2017	Uttar Pradesh	SP	BJP	Yogi Adityanath (BJP)
4 March 2017 & 8 March 2017	Manipur	INC	BJP	Nongthombam Biren Singh (BJP)
9 November 2017	Himachal Pradesh	INC	BJP	Jai Ram Thakur (BJP)
9 December 2017 & 14 December 2017	Gujarat	BJP	BJP	Vijay Rupani (BJP) [3]

Presidential election

A presidential election was held in India on 17 July 2017 before the term of the President Pranab Mukherjee ended. Ram Nath Kovind was declared the winner after the counting of votes which was held on 20 July 2017.[4]

Results of the 2017 Indian presidential election[5]
Candidate	Individual votes	Electoral College votes	%
Ram Nath Kovind	2,930	702,044	65.65%
Meira Kumar	1,844	367,314	34.35%
Invalid[6]	77	20,942

Vice Presidential election

A Vice Presidential election were held in India on 5 August 2017 before the term of Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari ends. Venkaiah Naidu was elected as the Vice President of India. Mr Naidu received 516 votes defeating the opposition's candidate, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, who got 244 votes. A total of 771 out of 785 parliamentarians voted in the election. M Venkaiah Naidu's victory margin of 272 votes is the highest in a vice presidential election in the last three decades.[7]

Legislative assembly elections

Punjab

Punjab

Elections for the State assembly were held on 4 February 2017 with 75 per cent voter turnout.[8][9] In Punjab all the 117 assembly constituencies have triangular contests between major parties makes the results uncertain.[10]

Result was declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 4 February 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election results[11]
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	5,945,899	38.5	1.4	117	77	31
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	3,662,665	23.7	23.7	112	20	20
	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)	3,898,161	25.2	9.4	94	15	41
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	833,092	5.4	1.8	23	3	9
	Independents (IND)	323,243	2.1	5.0	303	0	3
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	234,400	1.5	2.8	117	0
	Lok Insaaf Party (LIP)	189,228	1.2	1.2	5	2	2
	Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) (SAD(M))	49,260	0.3		54	0
	Aapna Punjab Party (APPA)	37,476	0.2		78	0
	Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMPOI)	37,243	0.2		13	0
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	34,074	0.2	0.6	23	0
	None of the above (NOTA)	108,471	0.7	0.7	N/A

Total		15,443,466	100.00			117	±0

Goa

Goa

Elections for the State assembly were held on 4 February 2017 with 83 per cent turnout.[9][8] The BJP, MGP, GFP and two independents formed an alliance to win the election.[12]

← Summary of the 4 February 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election results[13]
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	297,588	32.5	2.2	13	8
	Indian National Congress (INC)	259,758	28.4	2.4	17	8
	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MAG)	103,290	11.3	4.6	3
	Independents (IND)	101,922	11.1	5.5	3	2
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	57,420	6.3	6.3	0
	Goa Forward Party (GFP)	31,900	3.5	3.5	3	3
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	20,916	2.3	1.8	1	1
	Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM)	10,745	1.2	1.2	0
	United Goans Party (UGP)	8,563	0.9	0.9	0
	Goa Vikas Party (GVP)	5,379	0.6	2.9	0	2
	Others	7,816	0.9	2.9	0
	None of the Above (NOTA)	10,919	1.2	1.2	N/A

Total		916,216	100.00		40	±0

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh were held between 11 February and 9 March 2017 in seven phases.[9] Result was declared on 11 March 2017.[14]

← Summary of the 11 February – 8 March 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election results[15]
Party		Popular vote			Seats

Party		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	34,403,039	39.7	24.7	384	312	265
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	19,281,352	22.2	3.7	403	19	61
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	18,923,689	22.0	7.7	298	47	177
	Indian National Congress (INC)	5,416,324	6.2	5.4	105	7	21
	Independents (IND)	2,229,448	2.6	1.5	1462	3	11
	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)	1,545,810	1.8	0.5	131	1	8
	Apna Dal (Sonelal) (ADAL)	851,336	1.0	1.0	11	9	9
	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP)	607,911	0.7	0.7	8	4	4
	Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (NINSHAD)	540,542	0.6	0.6	100	1	1
	Peace Party of India (PECP)	227,998	0.3	2.0	150	0	4
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)	205,232	0.2		38	0
	Lok Dal (LD)	181,704	0.2	0.1	81	0
	Bahujan Mukti Party (BMUP)	152,844	0.2	0.2	182	0
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	138,763	0.2		90	0
	Mahan Dal (MD)	96,087	0.1	0.8	14	0
	Shiv Sena (SS)	88,595	0.1	0.7	150	0
	Other parties	1,080,007	1.2	7.3	1643	0	3
	None of the above (NOTA)	757,643	0.9	0.9	N/A

Total		86,728,324	100.00			403	±0

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand

Elections for the State assembly were held on 15 February 2017 with a 65.64 per cent turnout.[9] Result was declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 15 February 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election results
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	2,314,250	46.5	13.4	57	26
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,666,379	33.5	0.3	11	21
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	347,533	7.0	5.2	0	3
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	37,041	0.7	1.2	0	1
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	18,202	0.4	1.0	0
	Independents (IND)	499,674	10.0	2.3	2	1
	None of the Above (NOTA)	50,439	1.0	N/A

Total		4,975,494	100.00		70	±0

Manipur

Manipur

Assembly elections in Manipur were held on 4 March and 8 March 2017 in two phases.[9] The result was declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 4–8 March 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election results[16]
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	582,056	35.1	6.9	28	19
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	601,539	36.3	34.2	21	21
	Naga People's Front (NPF)	118,850	7.2	0.3	4
	National People's Party (NPP)	83,744	5.1	3.9	4	4
	Independents (IND)	83,834	5.1	1.8	1	1
	Lok Janshakti Party (LJP)	42,263	2.5	1.9	1
	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)	23,384	1.4	15.6	1	4
	None of the Above (NOTA)	9,062	0.6	0.6	N/A

Total			100.00		60	±0

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Elections for the State assembly was held on 9 November 2017. Voting turnout recorded 74%, which is highest ever in the state.[17] The results were declared on 18 December 2017. Over 0.9% of all voters in the election specified the 'None of the Above' option, which amounted to than 33,000 votes.[18]

← Summary of the 9 November 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election results[16]
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	1,846,432	48.8	10.3	44	18
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,577,450	41.7	1.1	21	15
	Independents (IND)	239,989	6.3	6.1	2	3
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))	55,558	1.5	0.1	1	1
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	18,540	0.5	0.7	0
	Himachal Lokhit Party (HLP)	N/A		2.4	0	1
	None of the Above (NOTA)	34,232	0.9	0.9	N/A

Total			100.00		68	±0

Gujarat

Gujarat

Elections for the State Assembly were held on 9 and 14 December 2017.[19][20] The result was declared on 18 December 2017.[21]

← Summary of the 9–14 December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election results
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats

Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	1,47,24,427	49.1	1.2	99	16
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,24,38,937	41.4	2.5	77	16
	Independents (IND)	12,90,278	4.3	1.5	3	2
	Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP)	2,22,694	0.7	0.7	2	2
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	2,07,007	0.7	0.6	0
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	1,84,815	0.6	0.4	1	1
	All India Hindustan Congress Party (AIHCP)	83,922	0.3	0.3	0
	Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (Secular) (RSPS)	45,833	0.2	0.2	0
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	24,918	0.1	0.1	0
	Janata Dal (United) (JDU)				0	1
	Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP)	N/A		3.6	0	2
	None of the Above (NOTA)	5,51,615	1.8	1.8	N/A

Total			100.00		182	±0

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[2] "Elections in India – A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary (Lok Sabha) & State Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Election". Electionsinindia.com. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.

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[HT_live-5] "Live: Ram Nath Kovind is 14th President of India, to take oath on July 25". Hindustan Times. 20 July 2017. Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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