2011 elections in India

Parliament By-elections took place between May and November to elect Lok Sabha members in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Elections in India

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Legislative Assembly elections took place in April and May 2011 to elect legislatures in the Indian states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.^[1]

Legislative Assembly elections

Date(s)	State/UT	Government Before		Chief Minister before election	Government After		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
4 and 11 April 2011	Assam		Indian National Congress	Tarun Gogoi		Indian National Congress	Tarun Gogoi
			Bodoland People's Front			Bodoland People's Front
13 April 2011	Kerala		Left Democratic Front	V. S. Achuthanandan		United Democratic Front	Oommen Chandy
	Puducherry		Indian National Congress	V. Vaithilingam		All India N.R. Congress	N. Rangaswamy
			Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
	Tamil Nadu		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Karunanidhi		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	J. Jayalalithaa
			Indian National Congress			Communist Party of India (Marxist)
			Pattali Makkal Katchi			Communist Party of India
18 April-10 May 2011	West Bengal		Left Front	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee		All India Trinamool Congress	Mamata Banerjee
						Indian National Congress

Parliamentary By-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	State	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
38	8 May 2011	Kadapa	Andhra Pradesh	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		Indian National Congress	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		YSR Congress Party
10		Bastar	Chhattisgarh	Baliram Kashyap		Bharatiya Janata Party	Dinesh Kashyap		Bharatiya Janata Party
9	26 September 2011	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	Arjun Munda		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ajoy Kumar		Jharkhand Vikas Morcha
4	13 October 2011	Hisar	Haryana	Bhajan Lal Bishnoi		Haryana Janhit Congress	Kuldeep Bishnoi		Haryana Janhit Congress
23	30 November 2011	Kolkata Dakshin	West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress

Assembly By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
248	8 May 2011	Pulivendla	Y. S. Vijayamma		Indian National Congress	Y. S. Vijayamma		YSR Congress Party
14	13 October 2011	Banswada	Pocharam Srinivas Reddy		Telugu Desam Party	Pocharam Srinivas Reddy		Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Arunachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
3	30 May 2011	Mukto	Dorjee Khandu		Indian National Congress	Pema Khandu		Indian National Congress

Bihar

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
62	25 June 2011	Purnia	Raj Kishore Kesri		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kiran Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party

Chhattisgarh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
59	14 February 2011	Sanjari Balod	Madanlal Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kumari Bai Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party

Gujarat

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
75	14 February 2011	Khadia	Ashok Bhatt		Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhushan Bhatt		Bharatiya Janata Party

Haryana

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
41	30 November 2011	Ratia	Gian Chand		Indian National Lok Dal	Jarnail Singh		Indian National Congress
47		Adampur	Kuldeep Bishnoi		Haryana Janhit Congress	Renuka Bishnoi		Haryana Janhit Congress

Himachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
12	30 November 2011	Nalagarh	Hari Naraian Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Lakhvinder Singh Rana		Indian National Congress
16		Rainka	Prem Singh		Indian National Congress	Hirdaya Ram		Bharatiya Janata Party

Jharkhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
57	10 February 2011	Kharsawan	Mangal Singh Soy		Bharatiya Janata Party	Arjun Munda		Bharatiya Janata Party
24	30 November 2011	Mandu	Tek Lal Mahto		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Jai Prakash Bhai Patel		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

Karnataka

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
103	9 April 2011	Jagalur	S. V. Ramachandra		Indian National Congress	S. V. Ramachandra		Bharatiya Janata Party
147		Bangarapet	M Narayanaswamy		Indian National Congress	M Narayanaswamy		Bharatiya Janata Party
185		Channapatna	M.C. Ashwath		Janata Dal (Secular)	C. P. Yogeshwara		Bharatiya Janata Party
64	26 September 2011	Koppal	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa		Janata Dal (Secular)	Karadi Sanganna Amarappa		Bharatiya Janata Party
93	30 November 2011	Bellary Rural	B. Sriramulu		Bharatiya Janata Party	B. Sriramulu		Independent

Madhya Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
170	14 February 2011	Sonkatch	Sajjan Singh Verma		Indian National Congress	Rajendra Pholchand Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
198		Kukshi	Jamuna Devi		Indian National Congress	Mukam Singh Kirade		Bharatiya Janata Party
56	25 June 2011	Jabera	Ratnesh Soloman		Indian National Congress	Dashrath Singh Lodhi		Bharatiya Janata Party

Maharashtra

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
211	13 October 2011	Khadakwasala	Ramesh Wanjale		Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	Bhimrao Tapkir		Bharatiya Janata Party

Nagaland

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
26	7 May 2011	Aonglenden	Nungshizenba Longkumer		Indian National Congress	Toshipokba		Naga People's Front

Odisha

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
73	30 May 2011	Umerkote	Jagabandhu Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Subash Gond		Biju Janata Dal

Puducherry

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
8	10 October 2011	Indira Nagar	N. Rangaswamy		All India N.R. Congress	A.T. Selvane		All India N.R. Congress

Tamil Nadu

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
140	13 October 2011	Tiruchirappalli West	M. Mariam Pichai		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Paranjothi		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
168	8 May 2011	Pipraich	Jamuna Nishad		Bahujan Samaj Party	Rajmati Nishad		Samajwadi Party

West Bengal

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
125	25 September 2011	Basirhat Uttar	Mostafa Bin Qaseem		Communist Party of India	ATM Abdullah		All India Trinamool Congress
159		Bhabanipur	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress	Mamata Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress

See also

• S.Y. Quraishi