2017 elections in India

The elections in India in 2017 include the seven state legislative assembly elections.^[1][2]

Elections in India

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Maps

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election	2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election	2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election	2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election
2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election	2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election	2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

State legislatures

Date(s)	State/UT	Government Before		Chief Minister before election	Government After		Elected Chief Minister
4 February 2017	Punjab		Shiromani Akali Dal	Parkash Singh Badal		Indian National Congress	Amarinder Singh
			Bharatiya Janata Party
4 February 2017	Goa		Bharatiya Janata Party	Laxmikant Parsekar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Parrikar
						Goa Forward Party
						Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
15 February 2017	Uttarakhand		Indian National Congress	Harish Rawat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Trivendra Singh Rawat
11 February 2017 to 9 March 2017	Uttar Pradesh		Samajwadi Party	Akhilesh Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party	Yogi Adityanath
						Apna Dal (Sonelal)
						Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
4 March 2017 & 8 March 2017	Manipur		Indian National Congress	Okram Ibobi Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Nongthombam Biren Singh
						National People's Party
						Naga People's Front
						Lok Janshakti Party
9 November 2017	Himachal Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Virbhadra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Jai Ram Thakur
9 December 2017 & 14 December 2017	Gujarat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vijay Rupani		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vijay Rupani

Presidential election

Main article: 2017 Indian presidential election

A presidential election was held in India on 17 July 2017 before the term of the President Pranab Mukherjee ended. Ram Nath Kovind was declared the winner after the counting of votes which was held on 20 July 2017.^[3]

Results of the 2017 Indian presidential election^[4]

Candidate	Individual votes	Electoral College votes	%
Ram Nath Kovind	2,930	702,044	65.65%
Meira Kumar	1,844	367,314	34.35%
Invalid[5]	77	20,942

Vice Presidential election

Main article: 2017 Indian vice-presidential election

A Vice Presidential election were held in India on 5 August 2017 before the term of Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari ends. Venkaiah Naidu was elected as the Vice President of India. Mr Naidu received 516 votes defeating the opposition's candidate, Gopal Krishna Gandhi, who got 244 votes. A total of 771 out of 785 parliamentarians voted in the election. M Venkaiah Naidu's victory margin of 272 votes is the highest in a vice presidential election in the last three decades.^[6]

Parliamentary By-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	State/UT	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
1	4 February 2017	Amritsar[7]	Punjab	Amarinder Singh		Indian National Congress	Gurjeet Singh Aujla		Indian National Congress
4	11 October 2017	Gurdaspur[8]		Vinod Khanna		Bharatiya Janata Party	Sunil Jakhar		Indian National Congress
2	9 April 2017	Srinagar	Jammu and Kashmir	Tariq Hameed Karra		Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party	Farooq Abdullah		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
3	12 April 2017	Malappuram	Kerala	E. Ahamed		Indian Union Muslim League	P.K. Kunhalikutty		Indian Union Muslim League

Legislative assembly elections

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election	Government after election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
4 February 2017	Punjab		Shiromani Akali Dal	Parkash Singh Badal		Indian National Congress	Amarinder Singh
14 February 2022	Goa		Bharatiya Janata Party	Laxmikant Parsekar		Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Parrikar
						Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
						Goa Forward Party
15 February 2017	Uttarakhand		Indian National Congress	Harish Rawat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Trivendra Singh Rawat
11 February – 8 March 2017	Uttar Pradesh		Samajwadi Party	Akhilesh Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party	Yogi Adityanath
						Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
						Apna Dal
4 – 8 March 2017	Manipur		Indian National Congress	Okram Ibobi Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	N. Biren Singh
						National People's Party
						Naga People's Front
9 November 2017	Himachal Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Virbhadra Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Jai Ram Thakur
9 and 14 December 2017	Gujarat		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vijay Rupani		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vijay Rupani

Punjab

Main article: 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election

Punjab

Elections for the State assembly were held on 4 February 2017 with 75 per cent voter turnout.^[9][10] In Punjab all the 117 assembly constituencies have triangular contests between major parties makes the results uncertain.^[11]

Result was declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 4 February 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election results^[12]

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	5,945,899	38.5	1.4	117	77	31
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	3,662,665	23.7	23.7	112	20	20
	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)	3,898,161	25.2	9.4	94	15	41
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	833,092	5.4	1.8	23	3	9
	Independents (IND)	323,243	2.1	5.0	303	0	3
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	234,400	1.5	2.8	117	0
	Lok Insaaf Party (LIP)	189,228	1.2	1.2	5	2	2
	Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) (SAD(M))	49,260	0.3		54	0
	Aapna Punjab Party (APPA)	37,476	0.2		78	0
	Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMPOI)	37,243	0.2		13	0
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	34,074	0.2	0.6	23	0
	None of the above (NOTA)	108,471	0.7	0.7	—
Total		15,443,466	100.00			117	±0

Goa

Main article: 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election

Goa

Elections for the State assembly were held on 4 February 2017 with 83 per cent turnout.^[10][9] The BJP, MGP, GFP and two independents formed an alliance to win the election.^[13]

← Summary of the 4 February 2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election results^[14]

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	± %	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	2,97,588	32.5	2.2	13	8
	Indian National Congress (INC)	2,59,758	28.4	2.4	17	8
	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MAG)	1,03,290	11.3	4.6	3
	Independents (IND)	1,01,922	11.1	5.5	3	2
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	57,420	6.3	6.3	0
	Goa Forward Party (GFP)	31,900	3.5	3.5	3	3
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	20,916	2.3	1.8	1	1
	Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM)	10,745	1.2	1.2	0
	United Goans Party (UGP)	8,563	0.9	0.9	0
	Goa Vikas Party (GVP)	5,379	0.6	2.9	0	2
	Others	7,816	0.9	2.9	0
	None of the Above (NOTA)	10,919	1.2	1.2	—
Total		9,16,216	100.00		40	±0
Valid votes		9,16,216	99.85
Invalid votes		1,416	0.15
Votes cast / turnout		9,17,832	82.56
Abstentions		1,93,860	17.44
Registered voters		11,11,692

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Main article: 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh were held between 11 February and 9 March 2017 in seven phases.^[10] Result was declared on 11 March 2017.^[15]

← Summary of the 11 February – 8 March 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election results^[16]

Party		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	34,403,039	39.7	24.7	384	312	265
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	19,281,352	22.2	3.7	403	19	61
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	18,923,689	22.0	7.7	298	47	177
	Indian National Congress (INC)	5,416,324	6.2	5.4	105	7	21
	Independents (IND)	2,229,448	2.6	1.5	1462	3	11
	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)	1,545,810	1.8	0.5	131	1	8
	Apna Dal (Sonelal) (ADAL)	851,336	1.0	1.0	11	9	9
	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP)	607,911	0.7	0.7	8	4	4
	Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (NINSHAD)	540,542	0.6	0.6	100	1	1
	Peace Party of India (PECP)	227,998	0.3	2.0	150	0	4
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)	205,232	0.2		38	0
	Lok Dal (LD)	181,704	0.2	0.1	81	0
	Bahujan Mukti Party (BMUP)	152,844	0.2	0.2	182	0
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	138,763	0.2		90	0
	Mahan Dal (MD)	96,087	0.1	0.8	14	0
	Shiv Sena (SS)	88,595	0.1	0.7	150	0
	Other parties	1,080,007	1.2	7.3	1643	0	3
	None of the above (NOTA)	757,643	0.9	0.9	—
Total		86,728,324	100.00			403	±0

Uttarakhand

Main article: 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election

Uttarakhand

Elections for the State assembly were held on 15 February 2017 with a 65.64 per cent turnout.^[10] Result was declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 15 February 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	2,314,250	46.5	13.4	57	26
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,666,379	33.5	0.3	11	21
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	347,533	7.0	5.2	0	3
	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	37,041	0.7	1.2	0	1
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	18,202	0.4	1.0	0
	Independents (IND)	499,674	10.0	2.3	2	1
	None of the Above (NOTA)	50,439	1.0	—
Total		4,975,494	100.00		70	±0

Manipur

Main article: 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election

Manipur

Assembly elections in Manipur were held on 4 March and 8 March 2017 in two phases.^[10] The result was declared on 11 March 2017.

← Summary of the 4–8 March 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election results^[17]

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	582,056	35.1	6.9	28	19
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	601,539	36.3	34.2	21	21
	Naga People's Front (NPF)	118,850	7.2	0.3	4
	National People's Party (NPP)	83,744	5.1	3.9	4	4
	Independents (IND)	83,834	5.1	1.8	1	1
	Lok Janshakti Party (LJP)	42,263	2.5	1.9	1
	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)	23,384	1.4	15.6	1	4
	None of the Above (NOTA)	9,062	0.6	0.6	—
Total			100.00		60	±0

Himachal Pradesh

Main article: 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Himachal Pradesh

Elections for the State assembly was held on 9 November 2017. Voting turnout recorded 74%, which is highest ever in the state.^[18] The results were declared on 18 December 2017. Over 0.9% of all voters in the election specified the 'None of the Above' option, which amounted to than 33,000 votes.^[19]

← Summary of the 9 November 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election results^[17]

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	1,846,432	48.8	10.3	44	18
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,577,450	41.7	1.1	21	15
	Independents (IND)	239,989	6.3	6.1	2	3
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))	55,558	1.5	0.1	1	1
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	18,540	0.5	0.7	0
	Himachal Lokhit Party (HLP)	—		2.4	0	1
	None of the Above (NOTA)	34,232	0.9	0.9	—
Total			100.00		68	±0

Gujarat

Main article: 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election

Gujarat

Elections for the State Assembly were held on 9 and 14 December 2017.^[20][21] The result was declared on 18 December 2017.^{[citation needed]}

← Summary of the 9–14 December 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election results

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	1,47,24,427	49.1	1.2	99	16
	Indian National Congress (INC)	1,24,38,937	41.4	2.5	77	16
	Independents (IND)	12,90,278	4.3	1.5	3	2
	Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP)	2,22,694	0.7	0.7	2	2
	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	2,07,007	0.7	0.6	0
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	1,84,815	0.6	0.4	1	1
	All India Hindustan Congress Party (AIHCP)	83,922	0.3	0.3	0
	Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (Secular) (RSPS)	45,833	0.2	0.2	0
	Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)	24,918	0.1	0.1	0
	Janata Dal (United) (JDU)				0	1
	Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP)	—		3.6	0	2
	None of the Above (NOTA)	5,51,615	1.8	1.8	—
Total			100.00		182	±0

Legislative Assembly by-elections

Andhra Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
139	23 August 2017	Nandyal	Bhuma Nagi Reddy		YSR Congress Party	Bhuma Brahmananda Reddy		Telugu Desam Party

Arunachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
12	21 December 2017	Pakke-Kessang	Kameng Dolo		Indian National Congress	Biyuram Wahge		Bharatiya Janata Party
28		Likabali	Jomde Kena		Indian National Congress	Kardo Nayigyor		Bharatiya Janata Party

Assam

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
113	9 April 2017	Dhemaji	Pradan Baruah		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ranoj Pegu		Bharatiya Janata Party

Delhi

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
27	9 April 2017	Rajouri Garden	Jarnail Singh		Aam Aadmi Party	Manjinder Singh Sirsa		Bharatiya Janata Party
7	23 August 2017	Bawana	Ved Parkash		Aam Aadmi Party	Ram Chander		Aam Aadmi Party

Goa

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
11	23 August 2017	Panaji	Sidharth Kuncalienker		Bharatiya Janata Party	Manohar Parrikar		Bharatiya Janata Party
19		Valpoi	Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane		Indian National Congress	Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane		Bharatiya Janata Party

Himachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
36	9 April 2017	Bhoranj	Ishwar Dass Dhiman		Bharatiya Janata Party	Dr Anil Dhiman		Bharatiya Janata Party

Jharkhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
4	9 April 2017	Litipara	Anil Murmu		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Simon Marandi		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

Karnataka

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
214	9 April 2017	Nanjangud	Srinivas Prasad		Indian National Congress	Kalale N. Keshavamurthy		Indian National Congress
224		Gundlupet	H. S. Mahadeva Prasad		Indian National Congress	M.C. Mohan Kumari		Indian National Congress

Kerala

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
41	11 October 2017	Vengara	P.K. Kunhalikutty		Indian Union Muslim League	K. N. A. Khader		Indian Union Muslim League

Madhya Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
9	9 April 2017	Ater	Satyadev Katare		Indian National Congress	Hemant Katare		Indian National Congress
89		Bandhavgarh	Gyan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Shiv Narayan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
61	9 November 2017	Chitrakoot	Prem Singh		Indian National Congress	Neelanshu Chaturvedi		Indian National Congress

Nagaland

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
10	29 July 2017	Northern Angami-I	Khriehu Liezietsu		Naga People's Front	Shurhozelie Liezietsu		Naga People's Front

Rajasthan

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
79	9 April 2017	Dholpur	B.L. Kushwah		Bahujan Samaj Party	Shobha Rani Kushwah		Bharatiya Janata Party

Sikkim

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
28	12 April 2017	Upper Burtuk	Prem Singh Tamang		Sikkim Krantikari Morcha	Dilli Ram Thapa		Sikkim Democratic Front

Tamil Nadu

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Reason	Elected MLA	Party after election
11	21 December 2017	Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar	J. Jayalalithaa		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Died on 5 December 2016[22]	T. T. V. Dhinakaran		Independent politician

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
207	21 December 2017	Sikandra	Mathura Prasad Pal		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ajit Singh Pal		Bharatiya Janata Party

West Bengal

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
216	9 April 2017	Kanthi Dakshin	Dibyendu Adhikari		All India Trinamool Congress	Chandrima Bhattacharya		All India Trinamool Congress
226	21 December 2017	Sabang	Manas Bhunia		Indian National Congress	Geeta Rani Bhunia		All India Trinamool Congress

See also

• 2016 elections in India
• 2018 elections in India