2000 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 2000 included elections to four state legislative assemblies.

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Overall Result

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election	Government after election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
12 to 22 February 2000	Bihar		Rashtriya Janata Dal	Rabri Devi		Rashtriya Janata Dal	Rabri Devi
22 February 2000	Haryana		Indian National Lok Dal	Om Prakash Chautala		Indian National Lok Dal	Om Prakash Chautala
12 and 22 February 2000	Manipur		Manipur State Congress Party	Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh		Manipur State Congress Party	Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh
17 and 22 February 2000	Odisha		Indian National Congress	Hemananda Biswal		Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik

Legislative Assembly elections

Bihar

Main article: 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

The Bihar legislative assembly election, 2000 was held on year 2000 for Bihar Legislative Assembly. Rashtriya Janata Dal won 103 seats in election and form the government.

Party	Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	67
Bahujan Samaj Party	05
Communist Party of India	05
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	02
Indian National Congress	23
Janata Dal (United)	21
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation	06
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	12
Rashtriya Janata Dal	124
Samata Party	34
United Goans Democratic Party	02
Kosal Party	02
Marxist Co-ordination Committee	01
Independent	20
Total	324

Haryana

Main article: 2000 Haryana Legislative Assembly election

The Haryana legislative assembly election, 2000 was held on 22 February 2000, to select the 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly.

SN	Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	No. of votes %
1	Indian National Lok Dal	62	47	29.61
2	Indian National Congress	90	21	31.22
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	29	6	8.94
4	Bahujan Samaj Party	83	1	5.74
5	Nationalist Congress Party	24	1	0.51
6	Vishal Haryana Party	82	2	5.55
7	Republican Party of India	5	1	0.62
8	Independents	519	11	16.90
	Total:		90

Manipur

Main article: 2000 Manipur Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Manipur State Congress Party	331,141	26.28	23	New
	Indian National Congress	230,748	18.31	11	–11
	Bharatiya Janata Party	142,174	11.28	6	+5
	Federal Party of Manipur	118,916	9.44	6	+4
	Manipur Peoples Party	99,487	7.90	4	–14
	Nationalist Congress Party	99,128	7.87	5	New
	Samata Party	84,215	6.68	1	–2
	Communist Party of India	45,309	3.60	0	–2
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	23,037	1.83	1	New
	Janata Dal (United)	22,576	1.79	1	New
	Janata Dal (Secular)	19,945	1.58	1	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3,783	0.30	0	0
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	1,050	0.08	0	New
	Kuki National Assembly	690	0.05	0	0
	National People's Party	17	0.00	0	–2
	Independents	37,875	3.01	1	–2
Total		1,260,091	100.00	60	0
Valid votes		1,260,091	99.07
Invalid/blank votes		11,849	0.93
Total votes		1,271,940	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,415,933	89.83
Source: ECI[1]

Odisha

Main article: 2000 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	4,770,654	33.77	26	–54
	Biju Janata Dal	4,151,895	29.39	68	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,570,074	18.19	38	+29
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	301,729	2.14	3	–1
	Communist Party of India	172,398	1.22	1	0
	Janata Dal (Secular)	118,978	0.84	1	New
	All India Trinamool Congress	110,056	0.78	1	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	109,256	0.77	1	+1
	Others	314,186	2.22	0	0
	Independents	1,506,216	10.66	8	+2
Total		14,125,442	100.00	147	0
Valid votes		14,125,442	98.82
Invalid/blank votes		169,311	1.18
Total votes		14,294,753	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		24,188,320	59.10
Source: ECI[2]

Legislative By-elections

Himachal Pradesh

2000 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election : Solan^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican Janata Party	Dr. Rajeev Bindal	15,042	40.00%	New
	INC	Major Krishna Mohini	11,505	30.59%	2.97
	Independent	Netar Singh	11,059	29.41%	New
Margin of victory			3,537	9.41%	9.33
Turnout			37,606	60.92%	4.59
Registered electors			62,057		11.20
	Republican Janata Party gain from INC		Swing