2011 elections in India explained

Election Name:	Elections in India
Country:	India
Previous Election:	2010 elections in India
Previous Year:	2010
Election Date:	2011
Next Election:	2012 elections in India
Next Year:	2012

Legislative Assembly elections took place in April and May 2011 to elect legislatures in the Indian states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.^[1]

Legislative Assembly elections

State/Union Territory	Date
	13 April
	13 April
	4 and 11 April
	13 April
	18, 23, 27 April, 3, 7 and 10 May
Counting	13 May

Assam

See main article: 2011 Assam Legislative Assembly election.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	Indian National Congress	126	78	39.35	39.35
3	Bodoland People's Front	29	12	6.13	25.17
2	All India United Democratic Front	77	18	12.56	20.05
4	Asom Gana Parishad	104	10	16.33	19.75
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	120	5	11.45	12.05
6	Independents		2	9.26
7	All India Trinamool Congress	99	1	1.98	2.49
	Total		126

Kerala

See main article: 2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
2	Indian National Congress	81	38	26.32	45.16
3	Indian Union Muslim League	23	20	7.9	50.81
5	Kerala Congress (M)	15	9	4.92	47.05
7	SUCI (C)	21	2	1.68	11.31
8	Kerala Congress (B)	2	1	0.71	46.99
8	IDK	2	1	0.69	45.77
8	APM	1	1	0.37	51.16
1	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	85	45	28.1	45.73
4	Communist Party of India	27	13	8.69	44.8
6	Janata Dal (Secular)	5	4	1.51	43.22
7	Revolutionary Socialist Party	4	2	1.3	46.39
7	Nationalist Congress Party	4	2	1.24	43.83
7	IND(LDF)	2	2	0.71	45.47
	Total		140

Puducherry

See main article: 2011 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	All India NR Congress	17	15	31.75	55.47
3	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	10	5	13.75	41.02
2	Indian National Congress	16	7	25.06	46.14
4	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	10	2	10.68	33.28
5	Independent		1	9.49
	Total		30

Tamil Nadu

See main article: 2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	165	150	38.42	53.96
2	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	41	29	7.88	44.84
4	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	12	10	2.41	50.29
5	Communist Party of India	10	9	1.98	48.64
8	MMK	3	2	0.52	8.09
8	PT	2	2	0.4	54.3
9	All India Forward Bloc	1	1	0.24	51.22
3	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	124	23	22.4	42.12
6	Indian National Congress	63	5	9.3	35.68
7	Pattali Makkal Katchi	30	3	5.23	39.64
	Total		234

West Bengal

See main article: 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	All India Trinamool Congress	226	184	42.64	56.4
2	Indian National Congress	66	42	10.00	42.31
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	213	40	33.2	45.8
4	All India Forward Bloc	34	11	5.26	47.86
5	Revolutionary Socialist Party	23	7	3.25	39.64
6	GJM	3	3	0.79	79.46
7	Communist Party of India	14	2	2.02	38.55
7	Independents		2	3.65
8	SUCI(C)	29	1	0.47	4.51
8	Samajwadi Party	5	1	0.82	43.56
8	Democratic Secular Party	2	1	0.39	44.69
	Total		294

Parliamentary By-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	State	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
38	Rowspan=2	8 May 2011	Kadapa	Andhra Pradesh	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
10	Bastar	Chhattisgarh	Baliram Kashyap		Dinesh Kashyap
9	26 September 2011	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	Arjun Munda		Ajoy Kumar
4	13 October 2011	Hisar	Haryana	Bhajan Lal Bishnoi		Kuldeep Bishnoi
23	30 November 2011	Kolkata Dakshin	West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee		Subrata Bakshi

Assembly By-elections

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
248	8 May 2011	Pulivendla	Y. S. Vijayamma		Y. S. Vijayamma
14	13 October 2011	Banswada	Pocharam Srinivas Reddy		Pocharam Srinivas Reddy

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
41	Rowspan=2	30 November 2011	Ratia	Gian Chand		Jarnail Singh
47	Adampur	Kuldeep Bishnoi		Renuka Bishnoi

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
12	Rowspan=2	30 November 2011	Nalagarh	Hari Naraian Singh		Lakhvinder Singh Rana
16	Rainka	Prem Singh		Hirdaya Ram

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
57	10 February 2011	Kharsawan	Mangal Singh Soy		Arjun Munda
24	30 November 2011	Mandu	Tek Lal Mahto		Jai Prakash Bhai Patel

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
103	Rowspan=3	9 April 2011	Jagalur	S. V. Ramachandra		S. V. Ramachandra
147	Bangarapet	M Narayanaswamy		M Narayanaswamy
185	Channapatna	M.C. Ashwath	bgcolor=		Janata Dal (Secular)	C. P. Yogeshwara
64	26 September 2011	Koppal	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa	bgcolor=		Janata Dal (Secular)	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa
93	30 November 2011	Bellary Rural	B. Sriramulu		B. Sriramulu

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
170	Rowspan=2	14 February 2011	Sonkatch	Sajjan Singh Verma		Rajendra Pholchand Verma
198	Kukshi	Jamuna Devi		Mukam Singh Kirade
56	25 June 2011	Jabera	Ratnesh Soloman		Dashrath Singh Lodhi

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
125	Rowspan=2	25 September 2011	Basirhat Uttar	Mostafa Bin Qaseem		ATM Abdullah
159	Bhabanipur	Subrata Bakshi		Mamata Banerjee

See also

S.Y. Quraishi

External links

Election Commission of India

Notes and References

Web site: Press Note No.ECI/PN/17/2011:Schedule for the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Pondicherry. Election Commission of India. 2 April 2011.
Web site: Tamil Nadu Election,Tamil Nadu State Assembly Elections,India Assembly Elections,State Assembly Elections,Indian Assembly Election 2005 . 2012-01-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060320100343/http://www.indian-elections.com/assembly-elections/tamil-nadu/ . 2006-03-20 . dead .