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) | State | Government before election | Chief Minister before election | Government after election | Chief Minister after election | Maps | ||
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| 10 May 2001 | Assam | Asom Gana Parishad | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta | Indian National Congress | Tarun Gogoi | | ||
| Kerala | Left Democratic Front | E. K. Nayanar | United Democratic Front | A. K. Antony |  | |||
| Pondicherry | Indian National Congress | P. Shanmugham | Indian National Congress | P. Shanmugham |  | |||
| Tamil Maanila Congress | Tamil Maanila Congress | |||||||
| Tamil Nadu | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | M. Karunanidhi | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | J. Jayalalithaa |  | |||
| West Bengal | Left Front | Buddhadeb Bhattacharya | Left Front | Buddhadeb Bhattacharya |  | |||
Legislative Assembly elections
Assam
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Indian National Congress | 4,230,676 | 39.75 | 71 |  37 | |
| Asom Gana Parishad | 2,130,118 | 20.02 | 20 |  39 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 995,004 | 9.35 | 8 | 4 | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 267,173 | 2.51 | 3 | 1 | |
| Autonomous State Demand Committee | 118,610 | 1.11 | 2 | 3 | |
| Samajwadi Party | 109,822 | 1.03 | 1 | New | |
| Samata Party | 83,815 | 0.79 | 1 | New | |
| All India Trinamool Congress | 58,361 | 0.55 | 1 | New | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 189,349 | 1.78 | 0 | 2 | |
| Communist Party of India | 116,889 | 1.10 | 0 | 3 | |
| Autonomous State Demand Committee (Progressive) | 98,032 | 0.92 | 0 | New | |
| United Minorities Front, Assam | 43,712 | 0.41 | 0 | 2 | |
| People's Democratic Front (India) | 35,147 | 0.33 | 0 | New | |
| Others | 88,626 | 0.83 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 2,076,653 | 19.51 | 19 | 8 | |
| Total | 10,641,987 | 100.00 | 126 | 4 | |
| Valid votes | 10,641,987 | 98.26 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 188,628 | 1.74 | |||
| Total votes | 10,830,615 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 14,439,167 | 75.01 | |||
| Source: ECI[1] | |||||
Kerala
| Sl.No: | Party | Contested | Won | Popular Votes | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian National Congress- Indira (Congress-I) | 88 | 63 | 4940868 | 31.4 |
| 2 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | 74 | 24 | 3752976 | 23.85 |
| 3 | Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) | 23 | 16 | 1259572 | 8 |
| 4 | Kerala Congress - Mani (KCM) | 11 | 9 | 556647 | 3.54 |
| 5 | Communist Party of India (CPI) | 24 | 7 | 1212248 | 7.7 |
| 6 | Janadhipatya Samrakshana Samithi (JSS) | 5 | 4 | 279831 | 1.78 |
| 7 | Janata Dal- Secular (JDS) | 10 | 3 | 546917 | 3.48 |
| 8 | Kerala Congress - Joseph (KCJ) | 10 | 2 | 455748 | 2.9 |
| 9 | Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | 9 | 2 | 408456 | 2.6 |
| 10 | Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | 6 | 2 | 269689 | 1.71 |
| 11 | Revolutionary Socialist Party - Bolshevik (RSPB) | 4 | 2 | 215562 | 1.37 |
| 12 | Kerala Congress - Jacob (KCA) | 4 | 2 | 207618 | 1.32 |
| 13 | Kerala Congress - Balakrishna Pillai (KCB) | 2 | 2 | 113915 | 0.72 |
| 14 | Communist Marxist Party (CMP) | 3 | 1 | 145441 | 0.92 |
| 15 | Indian National League (INL) | 3 | 0 | 139775 | 0.89 |
| 16 | CPI(M) Independents (LDF) | 2 | 0 | 91058 | 0.58 |
| 17 | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 123 | 0 | 789762 | 5.02 |
| 18 | BJP Allies (JD(U): 4, Samata: 2, DMK: 1) | 7 | 0 | 10089 | 0.06 |
| 19 | Others/ Independents | 266 | 1 | 340692 | 2.16 |
| Total | 676 | 140 | 15736894 | 100 | |
Puducherry
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Indian National Congress | 108,700 | 22.78 | 11 | 2 | |
| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 83,679 | 17.54 | 7 | 0 | |
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 59,926 | 12.56 | 3 | 0 | |
| Puducherry Makkal Congress | 48,865 | 10.24 | 4 | New | |
| Tamil Maanila Congress | 35,390 | 7.42 | 2 | 3 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 22,164 | 4.65 | 1 | 1 | |
| Others | 66,981 | 14.04 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 51,402 | 10.77 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 477,107 | 100.00 | 30 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 477,107 | 99.95 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 252 | 0.05 | |||
| Total votes | 477,359 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 658,647 | 72.48 | |||
| Source: ECI[3] | |||||
Tamil Nadu
| Alliance/Party | Seats won | Change | Popular Vote | Vote % | Adj. %‡ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIADMK+ alliance | 196 | +138 | 14,043,980 | 50.1% | ||
| AIADMK | 132 | +127 | 8,815,387 | 31.4% | 52.1% | |
| TMC(M) | 23 | -15 | 1,885,726 | 6.7% | 47.5% | |
| PMK | 20 | +16 | 1,557,500 | 5.6% | 46.8% | |
| INC | 7 | +7 | 696,205 | 2.5% | 45.4% | |
| CPI(M) | 6 | +4 | 470,736 | 1.7% | 48.2% | |
| CPI | 5 | -3 | 444,710 | 1.6% | 48.5% | |
| IND | 2 | +2 | 103,971 | 0.4% | 46.6% | |
| AIFB | 1 | +1 | 39,248 | 0.1% | 43.3% | |
| MUL | 0 | -1 | 30,497 | 0.1% | 41.7% | |
| DMK+ alliance | 37 | -138 | 10,841,157 | 38.7% | ||
| DMK | 31 | -142 | 8,669,864 | 30.9% | 39.0% | |
| BJP | 4 | +3 | 895,352 | 3.2% | 38.7% | |
| MADMK | 2 | +1 | 129,474 | 0.5% | 37.1% | |
| PT | 0 | – | 355,171 | 1.3% | 33.8% | |
| MTD | 0 | – | 257,126 | 0.9% | 40.9% | |
| PNK | 0 | – | 196,740 | 0.7% | 33.6% | |
| MGRK | 0 | – | 136,916 | 0.5% | 40.8% | |
| TB | 0 | – | 45,002 | 0.2% | 40.0% | |
| CNMK | 0 | – | 40,421 | 0.1% | 32.4% | |
| IND | 0 | – | 115,091 | 0.4% | 36.7% | |
| Others | 1 | – | 3,192,598 | 11.4% | ||
| MDMK | 0 | – | 1,304,469 | 4.7% | 5.1% | |
| IND | 1 | – | 1,509,378 | 6.2% | 6.3% | |
| Total | 234 | – | 28,037,314 | 100% | – | |
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
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West Bengal
| Political Party |
No. of candidates |
No. of elected |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Seat change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 211 | 143 | 13,402,603 | 36.59% | ||
| All India Trinamool Congress | 226 | 60 | 11,229,396 | 30.66% | ||
| Indian National Congress | 60 | 26 | 2,921,151 | 7.98% | ||
| All India Forward Bloc | 34 | 25 | 2,067,944 | 5.65% | ||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 23 | 17 | 1,256,951 | 3.43% | ||
| Communist Party of India | 13 | 7 | 655,237 | 1.79% | ||
| West Bengal Socialist Party | 4 | 4 | 246,407 | 0.67% | ||
| Gorkha National Liberation Front | 5 | 3 | 190,057 | 0.52% | ||
| Biplobi Bangla Congress | 1 | 1 | 62,611 | 0.09% | ||
| Independents | 530 | 9 | 1,848,830 | 5.05% | ||
| Total | 1676 | 294 | 36,626,099 |