2014 elections in India

The elections in India in 2014 include the Indian general election of 2014 and eight state legislative assembly elections. The tenure of the state legislative assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha and Sikkim are due to expire during the year.^[1]

Elections in India

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General election

Main article: 2014 Indian general election

The voting for the general elections started from 7 April 2014, and the results were announced on 16 May 2014. According to the Election Commission of India, the electoral strength in 2014 was 81.45 crores, the largest in the world.^[2]

Date*	Election	Government before		Prime Minister before election	Government after		Elected Prime Minister
7 April 2014 – 12 May 2014	Lok Sabha		United Progressive Alliance	Manmohan Singh		National Democratic Alliance	Narendra Modi

Parliamentary By-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Vadodara	Narendra Modi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ranjanben Bhatt		Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Medak	K. Chandrashekar Rao		Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Kotha Prabhakar Reddy		Telangana Rashtra Samithi
3		Mainpuri	Mulayam Singh Yadav		Samajwadi Party	Tej Pratap Singh Yadav		Samajwadi Party
4	15 October 2014	Beed	Gopinath Munde		Bharatiya Janata Party	Pritam Munde		Bharatiya Janata Party
5		Kandhamal	Hemendra Chandra Singh		Biju Janata Dal	Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh		Biju Janata Dal

Legislative Assembly elections

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
19 April 2014	Arunachal Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Nabam Tuki		Indian National Congress	Nabam Tuki
10 April – 17 April 2014	Odisha		Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik		Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik
12 April 2014	Sikkim		Sikkim Democratic Front	Pawan Kumar Chamling		Sikkim Democratic Front	Pawan Kumar Chamling
30 April-7 May 2014	Andhra Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Kiran Kumar Reddy		Telugu Desam Party	N. Chandrababu Naidu
						Bharatiya Janata Party
	Telangana		Part of United Andhra Pradesh			Telangana Rashtra Samithi	K. Chandrashekar Rao
15 October 2014	Maharashtra		Indian National Congress	Prithviraj Chavan		Bharatiya Janata Party	Devendra Fadnavis
			Nationalist Congress Party			Shiv Sena
	Haryana		Indian National Congress	Bhupinder Singh Hooda		Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Lal Khattar
20 November – 20 December 2014	Jammu and Kashmir		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	Omar Abdullah		Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
			Indian National Congress			Bharatiya Janata Party
	Jharkhand		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Hemant Soren		Bharatiya Janata Party	Raghubar Das
			Indian National Congress			All Jharkhand Students Union

Assembly By-elections

Andhra Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Nandigama	Thangirala Prabhakara Rao		Telugu Desam Party	Tangirala Sowmya		Telugu Desam Party
2	8 November 2014	Allagadda	Shobha Nagi Reddy		YSR Congress Party	Akhila Priya Reddy		YSR Congress Party

Arunachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	15 October 2014	Kanubari	Newlai Tingkhatra		Indian National Congress	Gabriel Denwang Wangsu		Indian National Congress

Assam

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Silchar	Sushmita Dev		Indian National Congress	Dilip Kumar Paul		Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Lakhipur	Dinesh Prasad Goala			Rajdeep Goala		Indian National Congress
3		Jamunamukh	Sirajuddin Ajmal		All India United Democratic Front	Abdur Rahim Ajmal		All India United Democratic Front

Bihar

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 August 2014	Bhagalpur	Ashwini Kumar Choubey		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ajeet Sharma		Indian National Congress
2		Jale	Vijay Kumar Mishra			Rishi Mishra		Janata Dal (United)
3		Mohiuddinnagar	Rana Gangeshwar Singh			Ajay Kumar Bulganin		Rashtriya Janata Dal
4		Chapra	Janardan Singh Sigriwal			Randhir Kumar Singh
5		Hajipur	Nityanand Roy			Awadhesh Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
6		Narkatiaganj	Satish Chandra Dubey			Rashmi Verma
7		Mohania	Chhedi Paswan		Janata Dal (United)	Niranjan Ram
8		Banka	Javed Iqbal Ansari		Rashtriya Janata Dal	Ramnarayan Mandal
9		Parbatta	Samrat Choudhary			Ramanand Prasad Singh		Janata Dal (United)
10		Rajnagar	Ram Lakhan Ram Raman			Rama Watar Paswan		Rashtriya Janata Dal

Chhattisgarh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Antagarh	Vikram Usendi		Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhoj Raj Nag		Bharatiya Janata Party

Gujarat

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Deesa	Liladhar Vaghela		Bharatiya Janata Party	Govabhai Hamirabhai Rabari		Indian National Congress
2		Khambhaliya	Poonamben Maadam			Ahir Meraman Markhi
3		Mangrol (Junagadh)	Rajesh Chudasama			Vaja Babubhai Kalabhai
4		Maninagar	Narendra Modi			Sureshbhai Patel		Bharatiya Janata Party
5		Tankara	Mohanbhai Kundariya			Bavanjibhai Hansrajbhai Metaliya
6		Talaja	Bharatiben Shyal			Gohil Shivabhai Jerambhai
7		Anand	Dilip Patel			Rohit Patel
8		Matar	Devusinh Chauhan			Kesarisinh Solanki
9		Limkheda	Jaswantsinh Bhabhor			Bhuriya Vichhiyabhai Jokhnabhai
10	15 October 2014	Rajkot West	Vajubhai Vala			Vijay Rupani

Himachal Pradesh

2014 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election: Sujanpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Narinder Thakur	22,993	49.78%	30.14
	INC	Anita Kumari Rana	22,455	48.62%	25.30
	BSP	Parveen Thakur	387	0.84%	0.27
	Independent	Subhash Chand	352	0.76%	New
	NOTA	Nota	351	0.76%	New
Margin of victory			538	1.16%	30.26
Turnout			46,187	100.00%	29.65
Registered electors			46,659		28.22
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing	4.96

Karnataka

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 August 2014	Chikkodi-Sadalga	Prakash Babanna Hukkeri		Indian National Congress	Ganesh Prakash Hukkeri		Indian National Congress
2		Bellary Rural	B. Sriramulu		Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress	NY Gopalkrishna
3		Shikaripura	B. S. Yeddyurappa		Karnataka Janata Paksha	B. Y. Raghavendra		Bharatiya Janata Party

Madhya Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	24 April 2014	Vidisha	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kalyan Singh Thakur		Bharatiya Janata Party
2	21 August 2014	Bahoriband	Prabhat Pandey			Saurabh Singh		Indian National Congress
3		Agar	Manohar Untwal			Gopal Parmar		Bharatiya Janata Party
4		Vijayraghavgarh	Sanjay Pathak		Indian National Congress	Sanjay Pathak

Manipur

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	17 October 2014	Hiyanglam	Maibam Kunjo		All India Trinamool Congress	Elangbam Dwijamani		Indian National Congress

Nagaland

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	15 October 2014	Northern Angami-II	Neiphiu Rio		Naga People's Front	Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu		Naga People's Front

Punjab

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 August 2014	Patiala Urban	Amarinder Singh		Indian National Congress	Preneet Kaur		Indian National Congress
2		Talwandi Sabo	Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu			Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu		Shiromani Akali Dal

Rajasthan

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Nasirabad	Sanwar Lal Jat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ramnaryan		Indian National Congress
2		Surajgarh	Santosh Ahlawat			Sharwan Kumar
3		Weir	Bahadur Singh Koli			Bhajan Lal Jatav
4		Kota South	Om Birla			Sandeep Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party

Sikkim

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Rangang-Yangang	Pawan Kumar Chamling		Sikkim Democratic Front	Rup Narayan Chamling		Independent

Tripura

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Manu	Jitendra Choudhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Prabhat Chowdhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 September 2014	Saharanpur Nagar	Raghav Lakhanpal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Rajiv Gumber		Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Noida	Mahesh Sharma			Vimla Batham
3		Lucknow East	Kalraj Mishra			Ashutosh Tandon
4		Bijnor	Kunwar Bhartendra Singh			Ruchi Veera		Samajwadi Party
5		Thakurdwara	Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh			Nawab Jan
6		Nighasan	Ajay Kumar Mishra			Krishna Gopal Patel
7		Hamirpur	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti			Shiv Charan Prajapati
8		Charkhari	Uma Bharti			Kaptan Singh
9		Sirathu	Keshav Prasad Maurya			Wachaspati
10		Balha	Savitri Bai Phule			Banshidhar Baudh
11		Rohaniya	Anupriya Singh Patel		Apna Dal	Mahendra Singh Patel
12	15 October 2014	Kairana	Hukum Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Nahid Hasan

Uttarakhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 July 2014	Doiwala	Ramesh Pokhriyal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Hira Singh Bisht		Indian National Congress
2		Someshwar	Ajay Tamta			Rekha Arya
3		Dharchula	Harish Singh Dhami		Indian National Congress	Harish Rawat

West Bengal

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	17 April 2014	Maynaguri	Ananta Deb Adhikari		Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)	Ananta Deb Adhikari		All India Trinamool Congress
2	13 September 2014	Basirhat Dakshin	Narayan Mukherjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Samik Bhattacharya		Bharatiya Janata Party
3		Chowrangee	Sikha Mitra		All India Trinamool Congress	Nayna Bandopadhyay		All India Trinamool Congress

See also

• V. S. Sampath