2001 elections in India

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Elections in the Republic of India in 2001 included elections to five state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

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Overall Results

Date(s)StateGovernment before electionChief Minister before electionGovernment after electionChief Minister after electionMaps
10 May 2001 Assam Asom Gana Parishad Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Indian National Congress Tarun Gogoi IN-AS.svg
10 May 2001 Kerala Left Democratic Front E. K. Nayanar United Democratic Front A. K. Antony IN-KL.svg
10 May 2001 Pondicherry Indian National Congress P. Shanmugham Indian National Congress P. Shanmugham IN-PY.svg
Tamil Maanila Congress Tamil Maanila Congress
10 May 2001 Tamil Nadu Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. Karunanidhi All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam J. Jayalalithaa IN-TN.svg
10 May 2001 West Bengal Left Front Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Left Front Buddhadeb Bhattacharya IN-WB.svg

Legislative Assembly elections

Assam

India Assam Legislative Assembly 2001.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Indian National Congress 4,230,67639.7571Increase2.svg37
Asom Gana Parishad 2,130,11820.0220Decrease2.svg39
Bharatiya Janata Party 995,0049.358Increase2.svg4
Nationalist Congress Party 267,1732.513Increase2.svg1
Autonomous State Demand Committee 118,6101.112Decrease2.svg3
Samajwadi Party 109,8221.031New
Samata Party 83,8150.791New
All India Trinamool Congress 58,3610.551New
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 189,3491.780Decrease2.svg2
Communist Party of India 116,8891.100Decrease2.svg3
Autonomous State Demand Committee (Progressive) 98,0320.920New
United Minorities Front, Assam 43,7120.410Decrease2.svg2
People's Democratic Front (India) 35,1470.330New
Others88,6260.8300
Independents2,076,65319.5119Increase2.svg8
Total10,641,987100.00126Increase2.svg4
Valid votes10,641,98798.26
Invalid/blank votes188,6281.74
Total votes10,830,615100.00
Registered voters/turnout14,439,16775.01
Source: ECI [1]

Kerala

Party-wise vote share of 2001 Kerala Assembly Elections [2]
Sl.No:PartyContestedWonPopular VotesShare (%)
1 Indian National Congress- Indira (Congress-I)8863494086831.4
2 Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))7424375297623.85
3 Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)231612595728
4 Kerala Congress - Mani (KCM)1195566473.54
5 Communist Party of India (CPI)24712122487.7
6 Janadhipatya Samrakshana Samithi (JSS)542798311.78
7 Janata Dal- Secular (JDS)1035469173.48
8 Kerala Congress - Joseph (KCJ)1024557482.9
9 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)924084562.6
10 Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)622696891.71
11 Revolutionary Socialist Party - Bolshevik (RSPB)422155621.37
12 Kerala Congress - Jacob (KCA)422076181.32
13 Kerala Congress - Balakrishna Pillai (KCB)221139150.72
14 Communist Marxist Party (CMP)311454410.92
15 Indian National League (INL)301397750.89
16CPI(M) Independents (LDF)20910580.58
17 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)12307897625.02
18BJP Allies (JD(U): 4, Samata: 2, DMK: 1)70100890.06
19Others/ Independents26613406922.16
Total67614015736894100

Puducherry

India Pondicherry Legislative Assembly 2001.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Indian National Congress 108,70022.7811Increase2.svg2
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 83,67917.5470
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 59,92612.5630
Puducherry Makkal Congress 48,86510.244New
Tamil Maanila Congress 35,3907.422Decrease2.svg3
Bharatiya Janata Party 22,1644.651Increase2.svg1
Others66,98114.0400
Independents51,40210.7720
Total477,107100.00300
Valid votes477,10799.95
Invalid/blank votes2520.05
Total votes477,359100.00
Registered voters/turnout658,64772.48
Source: ECI [3]

Tamil Nadu

Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left 2001 tamil nadu legislative election map by parties.png
Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left
Summary of the 2001 May Assembly election results in Tamil Nadu
Alliance/PartySeats wonChangePopular VoteVote %Adj. %
AIADMK+ alliance196+13814,043,98050.1%
AIADMK 132+1278,815,38731.4%52.1%
TMC(M) 23-151,885,7266.7%47.5%
PMK 20+161,557,5005.6%46.8%
INC 7+7696,2052.5%45.4%
CPI(M) 6+4470,7361.7%48.2%
CPI 5-3444,7101.6%48.5%
IND 2+2103,9710.4%46.6%
AIFB 1+139,2480.1%43.3%
MUL 0-130,4970.1%41.7%
DMK+ alliance37-13810,841,15738.7%
DMK 31-1428,669,86430.9%39.0%
BJP 4+3895,3523.2%38.7%
MADMK 2+1129,4740.5%37.1%
PT 0355,1711.3%33.8%
MTD 0257,1260.9%40.9%
PNK 0196,7400.7%33.6%
MGRK 0136,9160.5%40.8%
TB 045,0020.2%40.0%
CNMK 040,4210.1%32.4%
IND 0115,0910.4%36.7%
Others13,192,59811.4%
MDMK 01,304,4694.7%5.1%
IND 11,509,3786.2%6.3%
Total23428,037,314100%

Note: Parties that contested under "rising-sun" or "two-leaves" symbol are listed as DMK or AIADMK respectively. Parties that ran their candidates as independents, (e.g. Indian Uzhavar Uzhaippalar Katchi and Thondar Congress in DMK alliance) are listed as IND for their respective alliance.
: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the average % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India [4] and Rediff Newspaper [5]

West Bengal

Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001 [6]
Political Party
No. of candidates
No. of elected
Number of Votes
% of Votes
Seat change
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 21114313,402,60336.59%
All India Trinamool Congress 2266011,229,39630.66%
Indian National Congress 60262,921,1517.98%
All India Forward Bloc 34252,067,9445.65%
Revolutionary Socialist Party 23171,256,9513.43%
Communist Party of India 137655,2371.79%
West Bengal Socialist Party 44246,4070.67%
Gorkha National Liberation Front 53190,0570.52%
Biplobi Bangla Congress 1162,6110.09%
Independents 53091,848,8305.05%
Total167629436,626,099

Rajya Sabha

References

  1. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. "Kerala Assembly Elections 2001". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  3. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  4. "2001 Tamil Nadu Election Results" (PDF). 12 May 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010.
  5. "The Assembly Elections 2001: Tamil Nadu".
  6. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India.