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Incumbent Prime Minister | Narendra Modi ( NDA ) |
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Next Lok Sabha | 18th |
Rajya Sabha elections | |
Overall control | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Seats contested | 65 |
Net seat change | TBD ( NDA +4) |
Lok Sabha elections | |
Seats contested | 543 |
State elections | |
States contested | 8 |
Net state change | TBD |
State by-elections | |
Seats contested | 47 |
Net seat change | TBD |
Local elections | |
Seats contested | 107 |
Net seat change | TBD |
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.
A national election occurred between 19 April and 1 June 2024, to constitute the 18th Lok Sabha. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Date* | Election | Government before | Prime Minister before election | Government after | Elected Prime Minister | ||
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19 April – 1 June 2024 | Lok Sabha | Bharatiya Janata Party | Narendra Modi | National Democratic Alliance | Narendra Modi | ||
Indian media reporting indicate elections for the following state legislative assemblies are due in 2024. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Date(s) | State | Government before | Chief Minister before | Government after | Elected Chief Minister | Maps | ||
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19 April 2024 | Arunachal Pradesh | Bharatiya Janata Party | Pema Khandu | Bharatiya Janata Party | Pema Khandu | ![]() | ||
Sikkim | Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | Prem Singh Tamang | Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | Prem Singh Tamang | ![]() | |||
13 May 2024 | Andhra Pradesh | YSR Congress Party | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | Telugu Desam Party | N. Chandrababu Naidu | ![]() | ||
13 May – 1 June 2024 | Odisha | Biju Janata Dal | Naveen Patnaik | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mohan Charan Majhi | ![]() | ||
Before September 2024 | Jammu and Kashmir | President's Rule | TBD | ![]() | ||||
October 2024* | Haryana | Bharatiya Janata Party | Nayab Singh Saini | ![]() | ||||
Maharashtra | Bharatiya Janata Party | Eknath Shinde | ![]() | |||||
Shiv Sena | ||||||||
Nationalist Congress Party | ||||||||
November/ December 2024* | Jharkhand | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | Champai Soren | ![]() | ||||
Indian National Congress |
* Tentative schedule per assembly tenure. Source: Elections in India [9]
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
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TBD | 11 | Dholai | Parimal Suklabaidya | Bharatiya Janata Party | Elected To Lok Sabha | TBD | |||
31 | Sidli | Joyanta Basumatary | United People's Party Liberal | ||||||
32 | Bongaigaon | Phani Bhusan Choudhury | Asom Gana Parishad | ||||||
77 | Behali | Ranjit Dutta | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||||
88 | Samaguri | Rakibul Hussain | Indian National Congress |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 June 2024 | 195 | Agiaon | Manoj Manzil | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | Disqualified on 16 February 2024 [10] | Shiv Prakash Ranjan | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | ||
10 July 2024 | 60 | Rupauli | Bima Bharti | Janata Dal (United) | Resigned on 11 April 2024 [11] | TBD | |||
TBD | 196 | Tarari | Sudama Prasad | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | Elected To Lok Sabha on June 4 2024 | TBD | |||
203 | Ramgarh | Sudhakar Singh | Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||||||
227 | Imamganj | Jitan Ram Manjhi | Hindustani Awam Morcha | ||||||
232 | Belaganj | Surendra Prasad Yadav | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | 51 | Raipur City South | Brijmohan Agrawal | Bharatiya Janata Party | Elected To Lok Sabha on June 4 2024 | TBD |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
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7 May 2024 | 26 | Vijapur | C. J. Chavda | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 19 January 2024 [12] | C. J. Chavda | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
83 | Porbandar | Arjun Modhwadia | Resigned on 4 March 2024 [13] | Arjun Modhwadia | |||||
85 | Manavadar | Arvindbhai Jinabhai Ladani | Resigned on 6 March 2024 [14] | Arvindbhai Jinabhai Ladani | |||||
108 | Khambhat | Chirag Patel | Resigned on 19 December 2023 [15] | Chirag Patel | |||||
136 | Vaghodiya | Dharmendrasinh Vaghela | Independent | Resigned on 25 January 2024 [16] | Dharmendrasinh Vaghela | ||||
TBA | 7 | Vav | Geni Thakor | Indian National Congress | Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 | TBA | |||
87 | Visavadar | Bhupendra Bhayani | Aam Aadmi Party | Resigned on 13 December 2023 [17] | TBA |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 May 2024 | 21 | Karnal | Manohar Lal Khattar | Bharatiya Janata Party | Resigned on 13 March 2024 [18] | Nayab Singh Saini | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 June 2024 | 18 | Dharamshala | Sudhir Sharma | Indian National Congress | Disqualified on 29 February 2024 [19] | Sudhir Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
21 | Lahaul and Spiti | Ravi Thakur | Anuradha Rana | Indian National Congress | |||||
37 | Sujanpur | Rajinder Rana | Ranjit Singh | ||||||
39 | Barsar | Inder Dutt Lakhanpal | Inder Dutt Lakhanpal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||
42 | Gagret | Chaitanya Sharma | Rakesh Kalia | Indian National Congress | |||||
45 | Kutlehar | Davinder Kumar Bhutto | Vivek Sharma | ||||||
10 July 2024 | 10 | Dehra | Hoshyar Singh | Independent | Resigned on 22 March 2024 [20] | TBD | |||
38 | Hamirpur | Ashish Sharma | |||||||
51 | Nalagarh | K.L. Thakur |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | Party | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
20 May 2024 | 31 | Gandey | Sarfaraz Ahmad | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | Resigned on 1 January 2024 [21] | Kalpana Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 May 2024 | 36 | Shorapur | Raja Venkatappa Naik | Indian National Congress | Died on 24 February 2024 [22] | Raja Venugopal Naik | Indian National Congress | ||
TBD | 83 | Shiggaon | Basavaraj Bommai | Bharatiya Janata Party | Elected To Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 | TBD |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | 88 | Devikulam | A. Raja | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Election annulled [23] | TBD | |||
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | Party | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 July 2024 | 123 | Amarwara | Kamlesh Shah | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 29 March 2024 | TBD | |||
TBD | 156 | Budhni | Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June | TBD |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 July 2024 | 34 | Jalandhar West | Sheetal Angural | Aam Aadmi Party | Resigned on 28 March 2024 [24] | TBD | |||
TBD | 44 | Chabbewal | Raj Kumar Chabbewal | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 15 March 2024 [25] | TBD | |||
10 | Dera Baba Nanak | Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa | Indian National Congress | Elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 | TBD | ||||
84 | Gidderbaha | Amrinder Singh Raja Warring | Indian National Congress | TBD | |||||
103 | Barnala | Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer | Aam Aadmi Party | TBD |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
26 April 2024 | 165 | Bagidora | Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 19 February 2024 [26] | Jaikrishn Patel | Bharat Adivasi Party | ||
TBD | 27 | Jhunjhunu | Brijendra Singh Ola | Indian National Congress | Got elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 | TBD | |||
88 | Dausa | Murari Lal Meena | |||||||
97 | Deoli-Uniara | Harish Chandra Meena | |||||||
110 | Khinwsar | Hanuman Beniwal | Rashtriya Loktantrik Party | ||||||
161 | Chorasi | Rajkumar Roat | Bharat Adivasi Party |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
19 April 2024 | 233 | Vilavancode | S. Vijayadharani | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 24 February 2024 [27] | Tharahai Cuthbert | Indian National Congress | ||
10 July 2024 | 75 | Vikravandi | N. Pugazhenthi | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Died on 6 April 2024 [28] | TBD |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
13 May 2024 | 71 | Secunderabad Cantonment | G. Lasya Nanditha | Bharat Rashtra Samithi | Died on 23 February 2024 [29] | Sri Ganesh | Indian National Congress | ||
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
19 April 2024 | 7 | Ramnagar | Surajit Datta | Bharatiya Janata Party | Died on 27 December 2023 [30] | Dipak Majumder | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 July 2024 | 33 | Manglaur | Sarwat Karim Ansari | Bahujan Samaj Party | Died on 30 October 2023 [31] | TBD | |||
4 | Badrinath | Rajendra Singh Bhandari | Indian National Congress | Resigned on 17 March 2024 [32] | |||||
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
13 May 2024 | 136 | Dadraul | Manvendra Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | Died on 5 January 2024 [33] | Arvind Kumar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
20 May 2024 | 173 | Lucknow East | Ashutosh Tandon | Died on 9 November 2023 [34] | O.P. Srivastava | ||||
25 May 2024 | 292 | Gainsari | Shiv Pratap Yadav | Samajwadi Party | Died on 28 January 2024 [35] | Rakesh Kumar Yadav | Samajwadi Party | ||
1 June 2024 | 403 | Duddhi | Ramdular Gaur | Bharatiya Janata Party | Disqualified on 15 December 2023 [36] | Vijay Singh | |||
TBD | 110 | Karhal | Akhilesh Yadav | Samajwadi Party | Elected To Lok Sabha on June 4 2024 | TBD |
Date | Constituency | Previous MLA | Reason | Elected MLA | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 May 2024 | 62 | Bhagabangola | Idris Ali | Trinamool Congress | Died on 16 February 2024 [37] | Reyat Hossain Sarkar | Trinamool Congress | ||
1 June 2024 | 113 | Baranagar | Tapas Roy | Resigned on 4 March 2024 [38] | Sayantika Banerjee | ||||
10 July 2024 | 35 | Raiganj | Krishna Kalyani | Bharatiya Janata Party | Resigned on 27 March 2024 [39] | ||||
90 | Ranaghat Dakshin | Mukut Mani Adhikari | Resigned on 19 April 2024 [40] | ||||||
94 | Bagdah | Biswajit Das | |||||||
167 | Maniktala | Sadhan Pande | Trinamool Congress | Died on 20 February 2022 [41] [lower-alpha 1] | |||||
TBD | 5 | Sitai | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia | Got elected to Lok Sabha on 4 June 2024 | |||||
14 | Madarihat | Manoj Tigga | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||||
104 | Naihati | Partha Bhowmick | Trinamool Congress | ||||||
121 | Haroa | Haji Nurul Islam | |||||||
236 | Medinipur | June Malia | |||||||
251 | Taldangra | Arup Chakraborty | |||||||
Date | Municipal Corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Kakinada Municipal Corporation | Telugu Desam Party | TBD | ||
Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporation | |||||
Mangalagiri Tadepalle Municipal Corporation | Did not exist | ||||
Srikakulam Municipal Corporation | |||||
Date | Autonomous Council | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 January 2024 | Dima Hasao Autonomous Council | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
TBD | Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council | TBD | |||
Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Council | |||||
Mising Autonomous Council | Sammilita Gana Shakti | ||||
Bodo Kachari Welfare Autonomous Council | Did not exist | ||||
Kamatapur Autonomous Council | |||||
Matak Autonomous Council | |||||
Moran Autonomous Council | |||||
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Ambikapur Municipal Corporation | Indian National Congress | TBD | ||
Bilaspur Municipal Corporation | |||||
Chirmiri Municipal Corporation | |||||
Dhamtari Municipal Corporation | |||||
Durg Municipal Corporation Durg | |||||
Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation | |||||
Korba Municipal Corporation | |||||
Raigarh Municipal Corporation | |||||
Raipur Municipal Corporation | |||||
Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Junagadh Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Gurugram Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD | ||
Faridabad Municipal Corporation | |||||
Rohtak Municipal Corporation | |||||
Karnal Municipal Corporation | |||||
Hisar Municipal Corporation | |||||
Panipat Municipal Corporation | |||||
Yamunanagar Municipal Corporation | |||||
Manesar Municipal Corporation | Did not exist | ||||
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Jammu Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD | ||
Srinagar Municipal Corporation | Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party | ||||
Date | Municipal Corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Adityapur Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD | ||
Giridih Municipal Corporation | |||||
Hazaribagh Municipal Corporation | |||||
Medininagar Municipal Corporation | |||||
Ranchi Municipal Corporation | |||||
Chas Municipal Corporation | did not exist | ||||
Deoghar Municipal Corporation | |||||
Dhanbad Municipal Corporation | |||||
Jamshedpur Municipal Corporation |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD | ||
Mysuru City Corporation | |||||
Shivamogga City Corporation | |||||
Tumakuru City Corporation | |||||
Davanagere City Corporation | |||||
Mangalore City Corporation |
Date | Municipal Corporation/ Autonomous Council | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Imphal Municipal Corporation | Indian National Congress | TBD | ||
Chandel Autonomous District Council | |||||
Sadar Hills Autonomous District Council | |||||
Tamenglong Autonomous District Council | |||||
Manipur North Autonomous District Council | Naga People's Front | ||||
Ukhrul Autonomous District Council | |||||
Churachandpur Autonomous District Council | Independent |
Date | Autonomous Council | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council | National People's Party | TBD | ||
Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Rourkela Municipal Corporation | did not exist | TBD | ||
Sambalpur Municipal Corporation |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Amritsar Municipal Corporation | Indian National Congress | TBD | ||
Jalandhar Municipal Corporation | |||||
Patiala Municipal Corporation | |||||
Ludhiana Municipal Corporation | |||||
Phagwara Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party [44] |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Bikaner Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD | ||
Udaipur Municipal Corporation | |||||
Bharatpur Municipal Corporation | Indian National Congress | ||||
Alwar Municipal Corporation | did not exist |
Date | Municipal corporation | Government before | Government after | |
---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Dehradun Municipal Corporation | Bharatiya Janata Party | TBD | |
Rishikesh Municipal Corporation | ||||
Rudrapur Municipal Corporation | ||||
Kashipur Municipal Corporation | ||||
Haldwani Municipal Corporation | ||||
Haridwar Municipal Corporation | Indian National Congress | |||
Kotdwar Municipal Corporation | ||||
Roorkee Municipal Corporation | Independent | |||
Srinagar Municipal Corporation | did not exist |
Date | Municipal Corporation | Government before | Government after | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TBD | Durgapur Municipal Corporation | Trinamool Congress | TBD | ||
Howrah Municipal Corporation |
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