2001 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 2001 included elections to five state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

Elections in India

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Overall Results

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election	Government after election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
10 May 2001	Assam		Asom Gana Parishad	Prafulla Kumar Mahanta		Indian National Congress	Tarun Gogoi
10 May 2001	Kerala		Left Democratic Front	E. K. Nayanar		United Democratic Front	A. K. Antony
10 May 2001	Pondicherry		Indian National Congress	P. Shanmugham		Indian National Congress	P. Shanmugham
			Tamil Maanila Congress			Tamil Maanila Congress
10 May 2001	Tamil Nadu		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Karunanidhi		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	J. Jayalalithaa
10 May 2001	West Bengal		Left Front	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya		Left Front	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

Legislative Assembly elections

Assam

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

Main article: 2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election

Party-wise vote share of 2001 Kerala Assembly Elections^[2]

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

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

Main article: 2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election

Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left

Summary of the 2001 May Assembly election results in 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 ^[5]

West Bengal

Main article: 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001^[6]

	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

Rajya Sabha

Main article: 2001 Indian Rajya Sabha elections