2007 elections in India

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English The State Assembly elections in India, 2007 took place between 8 February 2007 and 23 February 2007 for Indian States of [Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Elections for Gujarat were held in December 2007. Elections for Goa were held June 2, 2007 to June 5, 2007.

Results

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election	Government after election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
30 January 2007	Punjab	Template:Full party name with color	Amarinder Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Parkash Singh Badal	File:IN-PB.svg
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28 January 2012	Manipur	Template:Full party name with color	Okram Ibobi Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Okram Ibobi Singh	File:IN-MN.svg
21 February 2007	Uttarakhand	Template:Full party name with color	N. D. Tiwari	Template:Full party name with color	B. C. Khanduri	File:IN-UT.svg
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7 April 2007 – 8 May 2007	Uttar Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Template:Full party name with color	Mayawati	File:IN-UP.svg
2 June 2007	Goa	Template:Full party name with color	Pratapsingh Rane	Template:Full party name with color	Digambar Kamat	File:IN-GA.svg
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14 November and 19 December 2007	Himachal Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Virbhadra Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Prem Kumar Dhumal	File:IN-HP.svg
11 and 16 December 2007	Gujarat	Template:Full party name with color	Narendra Modi	Template:Full party name with color	Narendra Modi	File:IN-GJ.svg

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.

Goa

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.

Gujarat

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

Himachal Pradesh

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

Jammu and Kashmir

Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
1	Poonch Haveli	68.51%	Jahangir Hussain Mir	Template:Party name with color	20,697	31.14%	Yash Paul Sharma	Template:Party name with color	16,299	24.52%	style="background:Template:Party color"|4,398

Manipur

Elections in Manipur were held in three phases on 8 February 14 and 23 February.

Template:Election results 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.

Punjab

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.

Uttarakhand

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.

Uttar Pradesh

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

Elections in Uttar Pradesh were held in seven phases during April and May 2007. In the end, Mayawati's B.S.P won this election.

See also

• N. Gopalaswami

External links

• Election Commission of India – State Elections, 2007
• Election Commission of India