2001 elections in India

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

Legislative Assembly elections[edit]

Assam[edit]

Kerala[edit]

Party-wise vote share of 2001 Kerala Assembly Elections[1]
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[edit]

Tamil Nadu[edit]

Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left
e • d 
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[2] and Rediff Newspaper [3]

West Bengal[edit]

e • d 
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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. "Kerala Assembly Elections 2001". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  2. "2001 Tamil Nadu Election Results" (PDF). 12 May 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010.
  3. "The Assembly Elections 2001: Tamil Nadu".

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