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The State Assembly elections in India, 2007 took place between 8 February 2007 and 23 February 2007 for Indian States of Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Elections for Gujarat were held in December 2007.
Counting of votes was done on 27 February 2007 and the results were announced on the same date.
The Indian National Congress, who were the incumbents in Punjab and Uttarakhand lost their majorities in both states.
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian National Congress | 32 | 16 |
| 3 | Nationalist Congress Party | 6 | 3 |
| 4 | Save Goa Front | 17 | 2 |
| 2 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 33 | 14 |
| 4 | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak | 26 | 2 |
| 5 | United Goans Democratic Party | 11 | 1 |
| 4 | Independent | 49 | 2 |
| Total | 40 |
Congress emerge as single largest party after results.
Congress formed government in alliance with NCP and SGF.
SGF later merged in Congress to raise its tally to 18.
| Ranks | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | % Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 182 | 117 | 49.12 |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 173 | 59 | 38.00 |
| 3 | Nationalist Congress Party | 10 | 3 | 1.05 |
| 4 | Independent | 182 | 2 | 6.61 |
| 5 | Janata Dal (United) | 35 | 1 | 0.66 |
| 6 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 166 | 0 | 2.62 |
| Total | 182 |
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats won | % votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 68 | 41 | 43.78 |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 67 | 23 | 38.9 |
| 3 | Independent | 60 | 3 | 7.97 |
| 4 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 67 | 1 | 7.26 |
| Total | 68 |
Elections in Manipur were held in three phases on 8 February 14 and 23 February.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 507,518 | 34.30 | 30 | +10 | |
| Manipur Peoples Party | 228,670 | 15.45 | 5 | +3 | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 127,005 | 8.58 | 5 | +2 | |
| Rashtriya Janata Dal | 98,694 | 6.67 | 3 | New | |
| Communist Party of India | 85,643 | 5.79 | 4 | –1 | |
| National People's Party | 51,192 | 3.46 | 3 | New | |
| Manipur State Congress Party | 27,505 | 1.86 | 0 | –7 | |
| Lok Jan Shakti Party | 22,233 | 1.50 | 0 | –2 | |
| Samajwadi Party | 13,373 | 0.90 | 0 | New | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 12,536 | 0.85 | 0 | -4 | |
| Janata Dal (Secular) | 7,144 | 0.48 | 0 | New | |
| Janata Dal (United) | 4,333 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Democratic Alliance | 1,508 | 0.10 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1,232 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
| Samata Party | 861 | 0.06 | 0 | –3 | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 808 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Naga National Party | 562 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 109 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 288,661 | 19.51 | 10 | +10 | |
| Total | 1,479,587 | 100.00 | 60 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 1,479,587 | 99.97 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 373 | 0.03 | |||
| Total votes | 1,479,960 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,707,204 | 86.69 | |||
| Source: ECI [1] | |||||
The Indian National Congress won by a simple majority. A Congress-led coalition government was sworn in on 1 March 2007 with Okram Ibobi Singh as the Chief Minister.
Elections in Punjab was held on 13 February 2007.
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | % Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shiromani Akali Dal | 93 | 48 | 37.09 |
| 3 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 | 19 | 8.28 |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 116 | 44 | 40.90 |
| 4 | Independent | 431 | 5 | 6.82 |
| 5 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 115 | 0 | 4.13 |
| Total | 117 |
A Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government sworn on 2 March 2007 with Parkash Singh Badal as the Chief Minister.
Elections in Uttarakhand was held on 21 February 2007.
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | % Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 70 | 35 | 31.90 |
| 4 | Uttarakhand Kranti Dal | 61 | 3 | 5.49 |
| 4 | Independent | 240 | 3 | 10.81 |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | 70 | 21 | 29.59 |
| 3 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 70 | 8 | 11.76 |
| Total | 70/70 |
The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the largest party with 34 seats in a house of 70. They were still one short of the majority to form a government. After much wrangling it was announced that the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and the three independents would be supporting the government. Elections to Bajpur are still to take place. The incumbent Indian National Congress Government lost as they had only 21 seats out of 70 seats.
After protracted discussions it was announced the B. C. Khanduri would be Chief Minister and B. S. Koshyari was to manage party work.
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | % Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 403 | 206 | 30.43 |
| 2 | Samajwadi Party | 393 | 97 | 25.43 |
| 3 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 350 | 51 | 16.97 |
| 4 | Indian National Congress | 393 | 22 | 8.61 |
| 5 | Rashtriya Lok Dal | 254 | 10 | 3.70 |
| 6 | Independent | 258 | 9 | 6.97 |
| 7 | Rashtriya Parivartan Dal | 14 | 2 | 0.20 |
| 8 | Janata Dal (United) | 16 | 1 | 0.42 |
| 8 | Uttar Pradesh United Democratic Front | 54 | 1 | 0.35 |
| 8 | Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party | 122 | 1 | 0.26 |
| 8 | Jan Morcha | 118 | 1 | 0.60 |
| 8 | Bharatiya Jan Shakti | 66 | 1 | 0.24 |
| 8 | Akhil Bhartiya Loktantrik Congress | 2 | 1 | 0.18 |
| Total | 403 |
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