Election Result 2009

The mandate is loud and clear. India will see a government under a successive prime
minister, Manmohan Singh, for the first time after Jawaharlal Nehru, in the 1950s.
The Congress party’s 201-seat tally is the best ever by any party since 1991.

Party Won
UPA
CONG 206
DMK 18
NCP 9
TC 19
JMM 2
NC 3
Others 5
Total 262

NDA
BJP 116
JD(U) 20
SS 11
SAD 4
AGP 1
RLD 5
Total 157

Third Front
Left 22
BSP 21
JD(S) 3
AIADMK 9
TDP 6
TRS 2
BJD 14
Others 3
Total 80

Fourth Front
SP 23
RJD 4
Total 27

Other Parties 17

With 262 seats, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) needs 11 additional MPs to
cross the magic number of 272 needed for a majority in the parliament. Apart from the
Congress party that won 206 seats on it’s own, the UPA consists of Sharad Pawar’s
NCP, M. Karunanidhi’s DMK, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and Farooq
Abdullah’s National Conference, who won the remaining 55.
State wise:
 STATES / UTs (Seats) INC BJP Others
Andhra Pradesh (42 / 42) 31 0 11
Arunachal Pradesh (2 / 2) 2 0 0
Assam (14 / 14) 7 4 3
Bihar (40 / 40) 2 33 5
Chhattisgarh (11 / 11) 3 8 0
Goa (2 / 2) 1 1 0
Gujarat (26 / 26) 10 16 0
Haryana (10 / 10) 9 0 1
Himachal Pradesh (4 / 4) 1 3 0
Jammu & Kashmir (6 / 6) 4 0 2
Jharkhand (14 / 14) 2 8 4
Karnataka (28 / 28) 6 19 3
Kerala (20 / 20) 13 0 7
Madhya Pradesh (28 / 29) 11 17 0
Maharashtra (48 / 48) 24 21 3
Manipur (2 / 2) 2 0 0
Meghalaya (2 / 2) 1 0 1
Mizoram (1 / 1) 1 0 0
Nagaland (1 / 1) 0 0 1
Orissa (21 / 21) 6 2 13
Punjab (13 / 13) 7 6 0
Rajasthan (25 / 25) 20 4 1
Sikkim (1 / 1) 1 0 0
Tamil Nadu (39 / 39) 25 0 14
Tripura (2 / 2) 0 0 2
Uttar Pradesh (80 / 80) 22 15 43
Uttaranchal (5 / 5) 5 0 0
West Bengal (42 / 42) 25 1 16
UNION TERRITORIES
Andaman & Nicobar (1 / 1) 0 1 0
Chandigarh (1 / 1) 1 0 0
Dadra & Nagar Haveli (1 / 1) 1 0 0
Daman & Diu (1 / 1) 0 1 0
Lakshadweep (1 / 1) 1 0 0
NCT of Delhi (7 / 7) 7 0 0
Pondicherry (1 / 1) 1 0 0
Total Seats (543) 241 160 130
This herculean effort that lasted a month and enfranchised a fifth of humanity will
definitely go down in Indian history as one of our successful endeavors. It was also
one of the least violent elections in our nation’s history, clearly underlining the
maturity of our election process if not our democratic process.

This election witnessed all parts of our nation participating enthusiastically. People
defied boycott calls made by separatists in Kashmir and Maoists/Naxals in
Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand. People stood in extremely hot conditions to
execute their right.