2024 elections in India explained

Year:	2024
Incumbent Pm:	Narendra Modi (NDA)
Next Lok Sabha:	18th
Rajya Control:	NDA hold
Rajya Seats Contested:	65 of 243 seats
Rajya Net Change:	TBD (NDA +4)
Lok Control:	NDA hold
Lok Seats Contested:	All 543 seats
Lok Net Change:	NDA -60
States Contested:	8 of 31 states
State Net Change:	NDA +2
State Seats Contested:	86
State By Net Change:	TBD (NDA +13)
Local Seats Contested:	107
Local Net Change:	TBD
Website:	https://elections24.eci.gov.in

The 2024 elections in India includes the general election and elections to the Rajya Sabha, to state legislative assemblies, to Panchayats and urban local bodies.

General election

See main article: 2024 Indian general election. A national election occurred between 19 April and 1 June 2024, to constitute the 18th Lok Sabha.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Lok Sabha by-elections

S.No	Date	Constituency	State/UT	MP before election	Party before election		Reason	Elected MP	Party after election
1	13 November 2024	Wayanad	Kerala	Rahul Gandhi		Resigned on 18 June 2024^[5]	Priyanka Gandhi
2	20 November 2024	Nanded	Maharashtra	Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan	Died on 26 August 2024^[6]	Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan

Legislative assembly elections

Indian media reporting indicate elections for the following state legislative assemblies are due in 2024.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
19 April 2024	Arunachal Pradesh		Pema Khandu		Pema Khandu
	Sikkim		Prem Singh Tamang		Prem Singh Tamang
13 May 2024	Andhra Pradesh		Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		N. Chandrababu Naidu
13 May – 1 June 2024	Odisha		Naveen Patnaik		Mohan Charan Majhi
18 September – 1 October 2024	Jammu and Kashmir		President's Rule			Omar Abdullah
5 October 2024	Haryana		Nayab Singh Saini		Nayab Singh Saini
13 – 20 November 2024	Jharkhand		Hemant Soren		Hemant Soren
20 November 2024	Maharashtra		Eknath Shinde		Devendra Fadnavis

Legislative Assembly by-elections

Assam

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
Rowspan=5	13 November 2024	11	Dholai	Parimal Suklabaidya		Rowspan=5	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Nihar Ranjan Das
31	Sidli	Joyanta Basumatary		Nirmal Kumar Brahma
32	Bongaigaon	Phani Bhusan Choudhury		Diptimayee Choudhury
77	Behali	Ranjit Dutta		Diganta Ghatowal
88	Samaguri	Rakibul Hussain		Diplu Ranjan Sarmah

Bihar

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
1 June 2024	195	Agiaon	Manoj Manzil		Disqualified on 16 February 2024^[11]	Shiv Prakash Ranjan
10 July 2024	60	Rupauli	Bima Bharti		Resigned on 11 April 2024^[12]	Shankar Singh
Rowspan=4	13 November 2024	196	Tarari	Sudama Prasad		Rowspan=4	Elected to Lok Sabha on June 4, 2024	Vishal Prashant
203	Ramgarh	Sudhakar Singh		Ashok Kumar Singh
227	Imamganj	Jitan Ram Manjhi		Deepa Manjhi
232	Belaganj	Surendra Prasad Yadav		Manorama Devi

Gujarat

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
7 May 2024	26	Vijapur	C. J. Chavda		Resigned on 19 January 2024^[13]	C. J. Chavda
	83	Porbandar	Arjun Modhwadia	Resigned on 4 March 2024^[14]	Arjun Modhwadia
	85	Manavadar	Arvindbhai Ladani	Resigned on 6 March 2024^[15]	Arvindbhai Ladani
	108	Khambhat	Chirag Patel	Resigned on 19 December 2023^[16]	Chirag Patel
	136	Vaghodiya	Dharmendrasinh Vaghela		Resigned on 25 January 2024^[17]	Dharmendrasinh Vaghela
13 November 2024	7	Vav	Geni Thakor		Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Swarupji Thakor

Himachal Pradesh

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
1 June 2024	18	Dharamshala	Sudhir Sharma		Disqualified on 29 February 2024^[19]	Sudhir Sharma
	21	Lahaul and Spiti	Ravi Thakur	Anuradha Rana
	37	Sujanpur	Rajinder Rana	Ranjit Singh
	39	Barsar	Inder Dutt Lakhanpal	Inder Dutt Lakhanpal
	42	Gagret	Chaitanya Sharma	Rakesh Kalia
	45	Kutlehar	Davinder Kumar Bhutto	Vivek Sharma
10 July 2024	10	Dehra	Hoshyar Singh		Resigned on 22 March 2024^[20]	Kamlesh Thakur
	38	Hamirpur	Ashish Sharma	Ashish Sharma
	51	Nalagarh	K.L. Thakur	Hardeep Singh Bawa

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
7 May 2024	36	Shorapur	Raja Venkatappa Naik		Died on 24 February 2024^[22]	Raja Venugopal Naik^[23]
Rowspan=3	13 November 2024	83	Shiggaon	Basavaraj Bommai		Rowspan=3	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan
95	Sandur	E. Tukaram		E. Annapoorna Tukaram^[24]
185	Channapatna	H. D. Kumaraswamy		C. P. Yogeshwara

Kerala

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
20 November 2024	56	Palakkad	Shafi Parambil		Rowspan=2	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June	Rahul Mamkootathil ^[25] ^[26]
13 November 2024	61	Chelakkara	K. Radhakrishnan		U. R. Pradeep

Madhya Pradesh

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA	Party
10 July 2024	123	Amarwara	Kamlesh Shah		Resigned on 29 March 2024^[27]	Kamlesh Shah
Rowspan=2	13 November 2024	2	Vijaypur	Ramnivas Rawat	Resigned on 8 July 2024^[28]	Mukesh Malhotra
156	Budhni	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June	Ramakant Bhargava

Meghalaya

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
10 July 2024	34	Jalandhar West	Sheetal Angural		Resigned on 28 March 2024^[29]	Mohinder Bhagat
20 November 2024	44				Resigned on 15 March 2024^[30]	Ishank Kumar
	10	Dera Baba Nanak	Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Gurdeep Singh Randhawa
	84	Gidderbaha	Amrinder Singh Raja Warring		Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon
	103	Barnala	Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer			Kuldeep Singh Dhillon

Rajasthan

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
26 April 2024	165	Bagidora	Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya		Resigned on 19 February 2024^[31]	Jaikrishn Patel
13 November 2024	27	Jhunjhunu	Brijendra Singh Ola	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Rajendra Bhamboo
	67	Ramgarh	Zubair Khan	Died on 14 September 2024^[32]	Sukhavant Singh
	88	Dausa	Murari Lal Meena	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Deen Dayal Bairwa
	97	Deoli-Uniara	Harish Chandra Meena		Rajendra Gurjar
	110	Khinwsar	Hanuman Beniwal			Rewant Ram Danga
	156	Salumber	Amrit Lal Meena		Died on 8 August 2024^[33]	Shanta Amrit Lal Meena
	161	Chorasi	Rajkumar Roat		Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Anil Kumar Katara

Sikkim

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
13 November 2024	7	Soreng-Chakung	Prem Singh Tamang		Resigned on 14 June 2024^[34]	Aditya Tamang
	11	Namchi-Singhithang	Krishna Kumari Rai	Resigned on 13 June 2024^[35]	Satish Chandra Rai

Tamil Nadu

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
19 April 2024	233	Vilavancode	S. Vijayadharani		Resigned on 24 February 2024^[36]	Tharahai Cuthbert
10 July 2024	75	Vikravandi	N. Pugazhenthi		Died on 6 April 2024^[37]	Anniyur Siva

Uttarakhand

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
10 July 2024	4	Badrinath			Resigned on 17 March 2024^[40]	Lakhpat Singh Butola
	33	Manglaur			Died on 30 October 2023^[41]	Muhammad Nizamuddin
20 November 2024	7	Kedarnath	Shaila Rani Rawat		Died on 9 July 2024^[42]	Asha Nautiyal

Uttar Pradesh

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
13 May 2024	136	Dadraul	Manvendra Singh		Died on 5 January 2024^[43]	Arvind Kumar Singh
20 May 2024	173	Lucknow East	Ashutosh Tandon	Died on 9 November 2023^[44]	O. P. Srivastava
25 May 2024	292	Gainsari	Shiv Pratap Yadav		Died on 28 January 2024^[45]	Rakesh Kumar Yadav
1 June 2024	403	Duddhi	Ramdular Gaur		Disqualified on 15 December 2023^[46]	Vijay Singh Gond
20 November 2024	16		Chandan Chauhan		Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Mithlesh Pal
	29	Kundarki	Ziaur Rahman Barq			Ramveer Singh
	56	Ghaziabad	Atul Garg			Sanjeev Sharma
	71	Khair	Anoop Pradhan	Surender Diler
	110	Karhal	Akhilesh Yadav			Tej Pratap Singh Yadav
	213	Sishamau	Haji Irfan Solanki	Disqualified on 7 June 2024^[47]	Naseem Solanki
	256	Phulpur	Praveen Patel		Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Deepak Patel
	277	Katehari	Lalji Verma			Dharmraj Nishad
	397	Majhawan	Vinod Kumar Bind			Suchismita Maurya

West Bengal

Date	Constituency		Previous MLA			Reason	Elected MLA
7 May 2024	62	Bhagabangola	Idris Ali		Died on 16 February 2024^[48]	Reyat Hossain Sarkar
1 June 2024	113	Baranagar	Tapas Roy	Resigned on 4 March 2024^[49]	Sayantika Banerjee
Rowspan=4	10 July 2024	35	Raiganj	Krishna Kalyani		Resigned on 27 March 2024^[50]	Krishna Kalyani
90	Ranaghat Dakshin	Mukut Mani Adhikari	Resigned on 19 April 2024^[51]	Mukut Mani Adhikari
94	Bagdah	Biswajit Das		Madhuparna Thakur
167	Maniktala	Sadhan Pande		Died on 20 February 2022^[52]	Supti Pandey
13 November 2024	6	Sitai	Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia	Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024	Colspan=1 Rowspan=1	Sangita Roy
	14	Madarihat	Manoj Tigga			Jay Prakash Toppo
	104	Naihati	Partha Bhowmick			Sanat Dey
	121	Haroa	Haji Nurul Islam		Sheikh Rabiul Islam
	236	Medinipur	June Malia		Sujoy Hazra
	251	Taldangra	Arup Chakraborty		Falguni Singhababu

Local body elections

Uttarakhand

See main article: 2024 Uttarakhand local elections.

Date	Municipal corporation	Government before		Government after
December 2024 (expected)	Dehradun Municipal Corporation		TBD
	Haldwani Municipal Corporation
	Kashipur Municipal Corporation
	Rishikesh Municipal Corporation
	Rudrapur Municipal Corporation
	Haridwar Municipal Corporation
	Kotdwar Municipal Corporation
	Roorkee Municipal Corporation
	Srinagar Municipal Corporation	did not exist
	Pithoragarh Municipal Corporation
	Almora Municipal Corporation

See also

• 2023 elections in India
• 2024 Rajya Sabha elections
• 2025 elections in India

Notes and References

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2. News: Deka. Kaushik. Will Rahul Gandhi get his 'Team 2024' in 2022?. India Today . 2021-10-17 . en.
3. News: Sinha. Akash. 'Khela Hobe'? Five roadblocks to Mamata Banerjee's national ambitions for 2024 elections. The Financial Express. 2021-07-29. en.
4. Web site: In a first, PM Modi hints fighting for third term in 2024 Lok Sabha elections . 2021-04-19 . News Nation . en.
5. Web site: Dayal . Sakshi . June 17, 2024 . Rahul Gandhi to retain family bastion as Congress seeks to build after polls . August 17, 2024 . Reuters.
6. News: 2024-08-26 . Nanded MP Vasant Chavan passes away at 64 . 2024-08-28 . The Economic Times . 0013-0389.
7. Web site: Kumar. Jyoti. 2021-11-18. मुख्यमंत्री पीएस गोले सोरेंग-चाकुंग सीट से लड़ेंगे 2024 का विधानसभा चुनाव, बेटे ने दी जानकारी. Chief Minister PS Golay will contest 2024 assembly elections from Soreng-Chakung seat, according to son. live. 2021-12-18. Patrika. hi. https://web.archive.org/web/20211127105850/https://dailynews360.patrika.com/sikkim/sikkim-cm-to-contest-assembly-elections-from-soreng-chakung-93075.html. 27 November 2021.
8. Web site: Rawal. Swapnil. 2021-06-17. Will fight 2024 assembly elections with NCP: Shiv Sena. live. 2021-12-18. Hindustan Times. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20210617223132/https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/will-fight-2024-assembly-elections-with-ncp-shiv-sena-101623924256672.html . 17 June 2021.
9. News: . 2021-11-16. BJP planning strategy to come to power in Andhra Pradesh in 2024. en-IN. The Hindu. 2021-12-18. 0971-751X.
10. Web site: 2021-11-24. Arunachal: Don't vote to BJP, if Seppa-Chayang Tajo road is not completed by 2024 polls, says Pema Khandu. live. 2021-12-18. Arunachal24. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20211125042627/https://arunachal24.in/arunachal-dont-vote-to-bjp-if-seppa-chayang-tajo-road-is-not-completed-by-2024-polls-says-pema-khandu/ . 25 November 2021.
11. Web site: 2024-02-16 . CPI-ML MLA Manoj Manzil disqualified from Bihar assembly . 2024-03-01 . The New Indian Express . en.
12. Web site: Bima resigns from post of MLA, will contest elections .
13. Web site: Gujarat Congress MLA C J Chavda resigns, likely to join BJP. The Indian Express. 19 January 2024 . 19 January 2024.
14. Web site: Arjun Modhwadia, Congress leader resigns from Gujarat Assembly, likely to join BJP. IndiaTV. 4 March 2024 . 4 March 2024.
15. Web site: Another Congress MLA resigns from Guj assembly set to join BJP. TheWeek. 4 March 2024.
16. Web site: 2023-12-19. Khambhat Congress MLA Chirag Patel resigns. 2023-12-19. DeshGujarat. en-US.
17. Web site: 2024-01-26 . Independent MLA Dharmendrasinh Vaghela resigns, to return to BJP in Gujarat . 2024-03-01 . Hindustan Times . en.
18. News: 2024-03-13 . Former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar resigns as BJP MLA . 2024-04-16 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.
19. News: 2024-02-29 . Himachal Pradesh: Six Congress MLAs disqualified under the provisions of anti-defection law for defying the Whip . 2024-03-01 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.
20. News: More trouble for Congress in Himachal Pradesh? 3 Independent MLAs resign, set to join BJP. Times of India. 22 March 2024 . 22 March 2024.
21. Web site: Jharkhand's JMM MLA Sarfaraz Ahmad resigns from assembly . 2024-01-02 . Deccan Herald . en.
22. News: 2024-02-25 . Surpur MLA Raja Venkatappa Naik passes away . 2024-03-01 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
23. News: 2024 Bye Election Results - Shorapur. Election Commision of India. 4 June 2024. 7 August 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240807153025/https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultByeJune2024/candidateswise-S1036.htm. 7 August 2024.
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26. News: Palakkad Assembly bypoll: UDF's Rahul Mamkootathil sets record victory . The Hindu .
27. Web site: 2024-03-29 . Kamlesh Shah quits as Congress MLA from Kamal Nath's home turf Chhindwara, joins BJP . 2024-07-13 . ThePrint . en-US.
28. Web site: Ex-Congress MLA Ramniwas Rawat takes oath as minister in Madhya Pradesh cabinet. Hindustan Times. 15 July 2024.
29. Web site: 2024-03-29 . Sheetal Angural resigns as Punjab MLA . 2024-04-27 . Hindustan Times . en.
30. Web site: 2024-03-15 . Raj Kumar Chabbewal Resigns from Congress Primary Membership and MLA Position . 2024-04-16 . Lokmat Times . en.
31. Web site: 2024-02-19 . Veteran tribal leader and Rajasthan Congress MLA Malviya joins BJP . 2024-03-01 . The Statesman . en.
32. Web site: 2024-09-14 . Congress MLA Zubair Khan passes away in Alwar . 2024-09-15 . Deccan Herald . en.
33. News: 2024-08-08 . Rajasthan BJP MLA Amrit Lal Meena dies of cardiac arrest . 2024-09-15 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
34. Web site: 2024-06-14 . Sikkim CM Resigns As MLA From Soreng-Chakung Constituency . 2024-07-13 . Northeast Today . en-US.
35. News: 2024-06-13 . Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang's wife Krishna Kumari Rai quits as MLA, day after taking oath . 2024-07-13 . The Economic Times . 0013-0389.
36. Web site: 2024-02-25 . TNLA Speaker M Appavu accepts Vijayadharani's resignation . 2024-03-01 . www.dtnext.in . en.
37. News: 2024-04-06 . Vikravandi DMK MLA N Pugazhenthi dies . 2024-04-16 . The Times of India . 0971-8257.
38. Web site: 2024-02-23 . Lasya Nanditha, BRS MLA, killed in road mishap in Hyderabad . 2024-03-01 . Hindustan Times . en.
39. News: 2023-12-28 . Seven-term Tripura MLA and BJP leader Surajit Datta passes away at 70 . The Times of India . 2023-12-31 . 0971-8257.
40. News: Badrinath Congress MLA Rajendra Singh Bhandari joins BJP . The Times of India . 18 March 2024 .
41. News: 2023-10-31. BSP legislator Sarwat Karim Ansari dies at 66. The Times of India. 2023-12-19. 0971-8257.
42. Web site: BJP Kedarnath MLA Shaila Rani Rawat passes away at 68. India Today. 10 July 2024 . 10 July 2024.
43. Web site: UP BJP MLA Manvendra Singh dies after prolonged liver problem. 5 January 2024. Deccan Herald.
44. Web site: 2023-11-10. 3-term BJP MLA from Lucknow East Ashutosh Tandon passes away at 63. 2023-12-16. The Indian Express. en.
45. Web site: 2024-01-26 . Samajwadi Party sitting MLA Shiv Pratap Yadav passes away; CM Yogi, Akhilesh express condolences . 2024-03-01 . www.indiatvnews.com . en.
46. Web site: 2023-12-15. BJP MLA found guilty of raping minor girl, gets 25 years imprisonment. 2023-12-16. mint. en.
47. Web site: 2024-06-07 . Sitting SP MLA Irfan Solanki gets 7 years RI, stands disqualified from UP assembly . 2024-07-13 . The New Indian Express . en.
48. Web site: TMC MLA Idris Ali dies from illness . 2024-03-01 . Deccan Herald . en.
49. News: 2024-03-04 . Trinamool MLA Tapas Roy quits party, resigns from assembly . 2024-04-16 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
50. Web site: 28 March 2024 . Krishna Kalyani resigns as Raiganj MLA following Lok Sabha nomination by TMC . 16 April 2024 . Telegraph India.
51. Web site: 19 April 2024 . Bengal: Another turncoat MLA resigns, Biswajit Das to contest from Bangaon on TMC ticket. 19 April 2024 . Jagran. hi.
52. Web site: 2022-02-20. West Bengal Cabinet Minister Sadhan Pande passes away at 71. 2022-02-20. The Indian Express. en.