2014 elections in India

Last updated December 30, 2024

The elections in India in 2014 include the Indian general election of 2014 and eight state legislative assembly elections. The tenure of the state legislative assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha and Sikkim are due to expire during the year.^[1]

General election

The voting for the general elections started from 7 April 2014, and the results were announced on 16 May 2014. According to the Election Commission of India, the electoral strength in 2014 was 81.45 crores, the largest in the world.^[2]

Date*	Election	Government before		Prime Minister before election	Government after		Elected Prime Minister
7 April 2014 – 12 May 2014	Lok Sabha		United Progressive Alliance	Manmohan Singh		National Democratic Alliance	Narendra Modi

Parliamentary By-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	MP before election		Elected MP
1	13 September 2014	Vadodara	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Ranjanben Bhatt	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Medak	K. Chandrashekar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Kotha Prabhakar Reddy	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
3		Mainpuri	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party	Tej Pratap Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party
4	15 October 2014	Beed	Gopinath Munde	Bharatiya Janata Party	Pritam Munde	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	15 October 2014	Kandhamal	Hemendra Chandra Singh	Biju Janata Dal	Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh	Biju Janata Dal

Legislative Assembly elections

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister
19 April 2014	Arunachal Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Nabam Tuki	Indian National Congress	Nabam Tuki
10 April – 17 April 2014	Odisha	Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik
12 April 2014	Sikkim	Sikkim Democratic Front	Pawan Kumar Chamling	Sikkim Democratic Front	Pawan Kumar Chamling
30 April-7 May 2014	Andhra Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Kiran Kumar Reddy	Telugu Desam Party	N. Chandrababu Naidu
	Andhra Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Kiran Kumar Reddy	Bharatiya Janata Party	N. Chandrababu Naidu
	Telangana	Part of United Andhra Pradesh		Telangana Rashtra Samithi	K. Chandrashekar Rao
15 October 2014	Maharashtra	Indian National Congress	Prithviraj Chavan	Bharatiya Janata Party	Devendra Fadnavis
	Maharashtra	Nationalist Congress Party	Prithviraj Chavan	Shiv Sena	Devendra Fadnavis
	Haryana	Indian National Congress	Bhupinder Singh Hooda	Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Lal Khattar
20 November – 20 December 2014	Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	Omar Abdullah	Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
	Jammu and Kashmir	Indian National Congress	Omar Abdullah	Bharatiya Janata Party	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
	Jharkhand	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Hemant Soren	Bharatiya Janata Party	Raghubar Das
	Jharkhand	Indian National Congress	Hemant Soren	All Jharkhand Students Union	Raghubar Das

Assembly By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Nandigama	Thangirala Prabhakara Rao		Telugu Desam Party	Tangirala Sowmya		Telugu Desam Party
2	8 November 2014	Allagadda	Shobha Nagi Reddy		YSR Congress Party	Akhila Priya Reddy		YSR Congress Party

Arunachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	15 October 2014	Kanubari	Newlai Tingkhatra		Indian National Congress	Gabriel Denwang Wangsu		Indian National Congress

Assam

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	13 September 2014	Silchar	Sushmita Dev	Indian National Congress	Dilip Kumar Paul	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Lakhipur	Dinesh Prasad Goala	Indian National Congress	Rajdeep Goala	Indian National Congress
3		Jamunamukh	Sirajuddin Ajmal	All India United Democratic Front	Abdur Rahim Ajmal	All India United Democratic Front

Bihar

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	21 August 2014	Bhagalpur	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Bharatiya Janata Party	Ajeet Sharma	Indian National Congress
2		Jale	Vijay Kumar Mishra		Rishi Mishra	Janata Dal (United)
3		Mohiuddinnagar	Rana Gangeshwar Singh		Ajay Kumar Bulganin	Rashtriya Janata Dal
4		Chapra	Janardan Singh Sigriwal		Randhir Kumar Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
5		Hajipur	Nityanand Roy		Awadhesh Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
6		Narkatiaganj	Satish Chandra Dubey		Rashmi Verma
7		Mohania	Chhedi Paswan	Janata Dal (United)	Niranjan Ram
8		Banka	Javed Iqbal Ansari	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Ramnarayan Mandal
9		Parbatta	Samrat Choudhary		Ramanand Prasad Singh	Janata Dal (United)
10		Rajnagar	Ram Lakhan Ram Raman		Rama Watar Paswan	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Chhattisgarh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Antagarh	Vikram Usendi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhoj Raj Nag		Bharatiya Janata Party

Gujarat

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	13 September 2014	Deesa	Liladhar Vaghela	Bharatiya Janata Party	Govabhai Hamirabhai Rabari	Indian National Congress
2		Khambhaliya	Poonamben Maadam		Ahir Meraman Markhi
3		Mangrol (Junagadh)	Rajesh Chudasama		Vaja Babubhai Kalabhai
4		Maninagar	Narendra Modi		Sureshbhai Patel	Bharatiya Janata Party
5		Tankara	Mohanbhai Kundariya		Bavanjibhai Hansrajbhai Metaliya
6		Talaja	Bharatiben Shyal		Gohil Shivabhai Jerambhai
7		Anand	Dilip Patel		Rohit Patel
8		Matar	Devusinh Chauhan		Kesarisinh Solanki
9		Limkheda	Jaswantsinh Bhabhor		Bhuriya Vichhiyabhai Jokhnabhai
10	15 October 2014	Rajkot West	Vajubhai Vala		Vijay Rupani

Himachal Pradesh

2014 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election : Sujanpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narinder Thakur	22,993	49.78%	30.14
	INC	Anita Kumari Rana	22,455	48.62%	25.30
	BSP	Parveen Thakur	387	0.84%	0.27
	Independent	Subhash Chand	352	0.76%	New
	NOTA	Nota	351	0.76%	New
Margin of victory			538	1.16%	30.26
Turnout			46,187	100.00%	29.65
Registered electors			46,659		28.22
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing	4.96

Karnataka

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	21 August 2014	Chikkodi-Sadalga	Prakash Babanna Hukkeri	Indian National Congress	Ganesh Prakash Hukkeri	Indian National Congress
2		Bellary Rural	B. Sriramulu	Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress	NY Gopalkrishna	Indian National Congress
3		Shikaripura	B. S. Yeddyurappa	Karnataka Janata Paksha	B. Y. Raghavendra	Bharatiya Janata Party

Madhya Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	24 April 2014	Vidisha	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Bharatiya Janata Party	Kalyan Singh Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	21 August 2014	Bahoriband	Prabhat Pandey		Saurabh Singh	Indian National Congress
3		Agar	Manohar Untwal		Gopal Parmar	Bharatiya Janata Party
4		Vijayraghavgarh	Sanjay Pathak	Indian National Congress	Sanjay Pathak	Bharatiya Janata Party

Manipur

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	17 October 2014	Hiyanglam	Maibam Kunjo		All India Trinamool Congress	Elangbam Dwijamani		Indian National Congress

Nagaland

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	15 October 2014	Northern Angami-II	Neiphiu Rio		Naga People's Front	Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu		Naga People's Front

Punjab

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 August 2014	Patiala Urban	Amarinder Singh		Indian National Congress	Preneet Kaur		Indian National Congress
2	21 August 2014	Talwandi Sabo	Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu		Indian National Congress	Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu		Shiromani Akali Dal

Rajasthan

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	13 September 2014	Nasirabad	Sanwar Lal Jat	Bharatiya Janata Party	Ramnaryan	Indian National Congress
2		Surajgarh	Santosh Ahlawat		Sharwan Kumar
3		Weir	Bahadur Singh Koli		Bhajan Lal Jatav
4		Kota South	Om Birla		Sandeep Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party

Sikkim

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Rangang-Yangang	Pawan Kumar Chamling		Sikkim Democratic Front	Rup Narayan Chamling		Independent

Tripura

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Manu	Jitendra Choudhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Prabhat Chowdhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	13 September 2014	Saharanpur Nagar	Raghav Lakhanpal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Rajiv Gumber	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Noida	Mahesh Sharma		Vimla Batham
3		Lucknow East	Kalraj Mishra		Ashutosh Tandon
4		Bijnor	Kunwar Bhartendra Singh		Ruchi Veera	Samajwadi Party
5		Thakurdwara	Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh		Nawab Jan
6		Nighasan	Ajay Kumar Mishra		Krishna Gopal Patel
7		Hamirpur	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti		Shiv Charan Prajapati
8		Charkhari	Uma Bharti		Kaptan Singh
9		Sirathu	Keshav Prasad Maurya		Wachaspati
10		Balha	Savitri Bai Phule		Banshidhar Baudh
11		Rohaniya	Anupriya Singh Patel	Apna Dal	Mahendra Singh Patel
12	15 October 2014	Kairana	Hukum Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	Nahid Hasan

Uttarakhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	21 July 2014	Doiwala	Ramesh Pokhriyal	Bharatiya Janata Party	Hira Singh Bisht	Indian National Congress
2		Someshwar	Ajay Tamta	Bharatiya Janata Party	Rekha Arya
3		Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami	Indian National Congress	Harish Rawat

West Bengal

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	17 April 2014	Maynaguri	Ananta Deb Adhikari (Resigned)	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)	Ananta Deb Adhikari	All India Trinamool Congress
2	13 September 2014	Basirhat Dakshin	Narayan Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Samik Bhattacharya	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	13 September 2014	Chowrangee	Sikha Mitra	All India Trinamool Congress	Nayna Bandopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress

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References

↑ "Terms of Houses, Election Commission of India" . Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "Number of Registered Voters in India reaches 814.5 Mn in 2014". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

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[1] "Terms of Houses, Election Commission of India" . Retrieved 5 March 2014.

[2] "Number of Registered Voters in India reaches 814.5 Mn in 2014". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.

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