2002 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 2002 included elections to seven state legislative assemblies and the elections for the posts of President and vice-president.

Results Date(s)StateGovernment before electionChief Minister before electionGovernment after electionChief Minister after electionMaps 13 February 2002 Punjab Parkash Singh Badal Amarinder Singh 14 to 21 February 2002ManipurPresident's RuleOkram Ibobi Singh 14 February 2002 Uttarakhand Bhagat Singh Koshyari N. D. Tiwari March 2002Uttar Pradesh Rajnath Singh Mayawati breakaway factions of INC and BSP and other small parties. 30 May 2002Goa Manohar Parrikar Manohar Parrikar 16 September 2002 to 8 October 2002Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah Mufti Mohammad Sayeed 12 December 2002 Gujarat Narendra Modi Narendra Modi

Legislative Assembly elections Goa

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats Won1Bharatiya Janata Party39172Indian National Congress40164United Goans Democratic Party1033Maharashtrawadi Gomantak2525Nationalist Congress Party2016Independent481 Total 40

Gujarat

Party Seats won Bharatiya Janata Party 127 Indian National Congress 51 Janata Dal (United) 2 Independents 2

Jammu & Kashmir

!colspan=10| |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Previously ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |+/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Vote Share |- | style="text-align:left;" |National Conference | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 28 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 57 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 29 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 28.24% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 7,49,825 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 20 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 13 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 24.24% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 6,43,751 |- | style="text-align:left;" |People's Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | - | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 9.28% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 2,46,480 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 3 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 3.83% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1,01,830 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 2 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0.88% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 23493 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 8 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 8.57% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 2,27,633 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Bahujan Samaj Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 3 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4.50% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1,19,492 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Movement | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0.62% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16,366 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Jammu and Kashmir Awami League | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0.91% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 24,121 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Independents | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 13 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16.50% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4,38,287 |- | style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" |Total (turnout 43.70%) ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 87 ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 87 ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| - ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| - |- ! colspan="9" | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Valid votes | align="right" |26,55,570 | align="right" |99.90 | colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes | align="right" |584 | align="right" |0.10 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout | align="right" |26,56,627 | align="right" |43.70 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Abstentions | align="right" | 24,94,170 | align="right" | 56.30% |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters | align="right" | 60,78,570 |colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|

| style="text-align:left;" colspan=12 |Source:Election Commission of India

Manipur

Punjab

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of Candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes

|align="left"|Indian National Congress||105||62||3,682,877||35.81%

|align="left"|Shiromani Akali Dal||92||41||3,196,924||31.08%

|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||23||3||583,214||5.67%

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||11||2||220,785||2.15%

|align="left"|Independents||274||9||1,159,552||11.27%

|align="left"|TotalThe total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.||923||117|| 10,284,686||

Uttar Pradesh

Party nameSeatsSamajwadi Party143Bahujan Samaj Party98Indian National Congress25Bharatiya Janata Party 88Communist Party of India (Marxist) 2Janata Dal (United)2Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha 1Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress2Apna Dal3National Loktantrik Party1Rashtriya Lok Dal14Rashtriya Parivartan Dal1Rashtriya Kranti Party4Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)1Independents16Total403Elections.in EIC

Uttarakhand

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats Won % Votes % Votes in Seats Contested Leader in the House1Indian National Congress (INC)703626.91%26.91%Narayan Datt Tiwari2Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)691925.45%25.81%Matbar Singh Kandari3Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)680710.93%11.20%Narayan Pal4Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)62045.49%6.36%Kashi Singh Airy5Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)26011.50%4.02%Balvir Singh Negi6Independents–0316.30%16.63%N/A Total –70––

Presidential election

An election was held on 15 July 2002 to elect the President of India. On 18 July 2002, the results were declared. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th President by beating his nearest rival Lakshmi Sahgal. StatesNo. of MLA/MPsValue of each VoteTotal (Votes)Total (Values)A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Votes)A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Values)Lakshmi Sahgal (Votes)Lakshmi Sahgal (Values)Invalid (Votes)Invalid (Values)Valid (Votes)Valid (Values)Members of Parliament 776708760538,080638451,7048056,6404229,73671850,8344Andhra Pradesh 29414828341,88426439,0722296172,51626639,368Arunachal Pradesh 6085745657456000057456Assam 12611611913,80411313,1081116558011413,224Bihar 24317323440,48221537,195172,941234623240,136Chhattisgarh 901299011,6108510,9650056458510,965Goa 4020397803468036024037740Gujarat 18214717926,31317425,5782294344117625,872Haryana 90112869,632869,6320000869,632Himachal Pradesh 6851643,264623,162151151633,213Jammu and Kashmir 8772785,616725,18421444288745,328Jharkhand 811767913,9047413,0245880007913,904Karnataka 22413122028,82020226,462131,703565521528,165Kerala 14015213820,9769714,744395,928230413620,672Madhya Pradesh 23013122929,99921628,2962262111,44121828,558Maharashtra 28817528049,00026446,20091,57571,22527347,775Manipur 6018581,0445090047247254972Meghalaya 6017569525390111723454918Mizoram 4084032040320000042320Nagaland 60960540544860065454486Orissa 14714914621,75413019,370121,788459614221,158Punjab 11711611012,7608710,09291,044141,624961,1136Rajasthan 20012919725,41318924,3812258677419124,639Sikkim 32732224302100021430210Tamil Nadu 23417623341,11121738,192101,76061,05622739,952Tripura 6026601,56017442411,066252581,508Uttarakhand 7064694,416634,03231923192664,224Uttar Pradesh40320839782,57638680,288241691,87238880,704West Bengal 29415129244,0929013,59019729,747575528743,337Delhi 7058704,060653,77021163174673,886Pondicherry 14712714518,4151474480023228448TOTALS 4,8964,7851,075,8194,152922,884459107,36617445,5694,6111,030,250Source: Election Commission of India

Vice-Presidential election

An election was held on 12 August 2002 to elect the newly vacated post of Vice-President of India. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat defeated Sushil Kumar Shinde to become 11th Vice President of India. Incumbent VP Krishan Kant did not contest the election and died before the election occurred.

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes

|align="left"|Bhairon Singh Shekhawat||align="left"|BJP||454||59.82

|align="left"|Sushil Kumar Shinde||align="left"|INC||305||40.18 |- | colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"| |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total ! style="text-align:right;"|759 ! style="text-align:right;"|100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|

|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||759||99.09 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||7||0.91 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||766||96.96 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||24||3.04 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|

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