2017 elections in India
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The elections in India in 2017 include the seven state legislative assembly elections.[1] [2]
Maps
Election List
Start List | End date | Election | Winning party | Elected leader |
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4 February 2017 | 4 February 2017 | Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | INC | Amarinder Singh |
4 February 2017 | 4 February 2017 | Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | BJP | Manohar Parrikar |
15 February 2017 | 15 February 2017 | Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | BJP | Trivendra Singh Rawat |
11 February 2017 | 9 March 2017 | Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | BJP | Yogi Adityanath |
4 March 2017 | 8 March 2017 | Manipur Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | BJP | Nongthombam Biren Singh |
17 July 2017 | 17 July 2017 | Indian presidential election, 2017 | NDA | Ram Nath Kovind |
5 August 2017 | 5 August 2017 | Indian vice-presidential election, 2017 | NDA | Venkaiah Naidu |
9 November 2017 | 9 November 2017 | Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | BJP | Jai Ram Thakur |
9 December 2017 | 14 December 2017 | Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, 2017 | BJP | Vijay Rupani [3] |
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.[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[6] | 77 | 20,942 |
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.[7]
Legislative assembly elections
Punjab
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Elections for the State assembly were held on February 4, 2017 with 75% voter turnout.[8][9] In Punjab all the 117 assembly constituencies have triangular contests between major parties makes the results uncertain.[10]
Result was declared on 11 March 2017.
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Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress (INC) | 5,945,899 | 38.5 | ![]() |
117 | 77 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Aam Aadmi Party/meta/color"| | Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) | 3,662,665 | 23.7 | ![]() |
112 | 20 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color"| | Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) | 3,898,161 | 25.2 | ![]() |
94 | 15 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 833,092 | 5.4 | ![]() |
23 | 3 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Independents (IND) | 323,243 | 2.1 | ![]() |
303 | 0 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color"| | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 234,400 | 1.5 | ![]() |
117 | 0 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Aam Aadmi Party/meta/color"| | Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) | 189,228 | 1.2 | ![]() |
5 | 2 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Shiromani Akali Dal/meta/color"| | 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 | ![]() | |
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color"| | Communist Party of India (CPI) | 34,074 | 0.2 | ![]() |
23 | 0 | ![]() |
None of the above (NOTA) | 108,471 | 0.7 | ![]() |
— | ![]() | ||
Total | 15,443,466 | 100.00 | 117 | ±0 |
Goa
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Elections for the State assembly were held on February 4, 2017 with 83% turnout.[9][8] The BJP, MGP, GFP and two independents formed an alliance to win the election.[12]
Uttar Pradesh
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Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh were held between 11 February to 9 March 2017 in seven phases.[9] Result was declared on 11 March 2017.[14]
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Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||
bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 34,403,039 | 39.7 | ![]() |
384 | 312 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color"| | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 19,281,352 | 22.2 | ![]() |
403 | 19 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color"| | Samajwadi Party (SP) | 18,923,689 | 22.0 | ![]() |
298 | 47 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress (INC) | 5,416,324 | 6.2 | ![]() |
105 | 7 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Independents (IND) | 2,229,448 | 2.6 | ![]() |
1462 | 3 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Rashtriya Lok Dal/meta/color"| | Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) | 1,545,810 | 1.8 | ![]() |
131 | 1 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Apna Dal/meta/color"| | Apna Dal (Sonelal) (ADAL) | 851,336 | 1.0 | ![]() |
11 | 9 | ![]() |
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) | 607,911 | 0.7 | ![]() |
8 | 4 | ![]() | |
Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal (NINSHAD) | 540,542 | 0.6 | ![]() |
100 | 1 | ![]() | |
Peace Party of India (PECP) | 227,998 | 0.3 | ![]() |
150 | 0 | ![]() | |
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) | 205,232 | 0.2 | ![]() |
38 | 0 | ![]() | |
Lok Dal (LD) | 181,704 | 0.2 | ![]() |
81 | 0 | ![]() | |
Bahujan Mukti Party (BMUP) | 152,844 | 0.2 | ![]() |
182 | 0 | ![]() | |
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India/meta/color"| | Communist Party of India (CPI) | 138,763 | 0.2 | ![]() |
90 | 0 | ![]() |
Mahan Dal (MD) | 96,087 | 0.1 | ![]() |
14 | 0 | ![]() | |
bgcolor="Template:Shiv Sena/meta/color"| | Shiv Sena (SS) | 88,595 | 0.1 | ![]() |
150 | 0 | ![]() |
Other parties | 1,080,007 | 1.2 | ![]() |
1643 | 0 | ![]() | |
None of the above (NOTA) | 757,643 | 0.9 | ![]() |
— | |||
Total | 86,728,324 | 100.00 | 403 | ±0 |
Uttarakhand
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Elections for the State assembly were held on February 15, 2017 with a 65.64% turnout.[9] Result was declared on 11 March 2017.
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Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 2,314,250 | 46.5 | ![]() |
57 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress (INC) | 1,666,379 | 33.5 | ![]() |
11 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color"| | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 347,533 | 7.0 | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Uttarakhand Kranti Dal/meta/color"| | Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKKD) | 37,041 | 0.7 | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Party/meta/color"| | Samajwadi Party (SP) | 18,202 | 0.4 | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Independents (IND) | 499,674 | 10.0 | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
None of the Above (NOTA) | 50,439 | 1.0 | — | |||
Total | 4,975,494 | 100.00 | 70 | ±0 |
Manipur
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Assembly elections in Manipur were held on 4 March and 8 March 2017 in two phases.[9] The result was declared on 11 March 2017.
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Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress (INC) | 582,056 | 35.1 | ![]() |
28 | ![]() |
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 601,539 | 36.3 | ![]() |
21 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Naga People's Front/meta/color"| | Naga People's Front (NPF) | 118,850 | 7.2 | ![]() |
4 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:National People's Party (India)/meta/color"| | National People's Party (NPP) | 83,744 | 5.1 | ![]() |
4 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Independents (IND) | 83,834 | 5.1 | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Lok Janshakti Party/meta/color"| | Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) | 42,263 | 2.5 | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color"| | All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) | 23,384 | 1.4 | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
None of the Above (NOTA) | 9,062 | 0.6 | ![]() |
— | ||
Total | 100.00 | 60 | ±0 |
Himachal Pradesh
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Elections for the State assembly was held on 9 November 2017. Voting turnout recorded 74%, which is highest ever in the state.[17] 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.[18]
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Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− | ||
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 1,846,432 | 48.8 | ![]() |
44 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress (INC) | 1,577,450 | 41.7 | ![]() |
21 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Independents (IND) | 239,989 | 6.3 | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"| | Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) | 55,558 | 1.5 | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
bgcolor="Template:Bahujan Samaj Party/meta/color"| | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 18,540 | 0.5 | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
Himachal Lokhit Party (HLP) | — | ![]() |
0 | ![]() | ||
None of the Above (NOTA) | 34,232 | 0.9 | ![]() |
— | ||
Total | 100.00 | 68 | ±0 |
Gujarat
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Elections for the State Assembly were held on 9 and 14 December 2017.[19][20] The result was declared on 18 December 2017.[21]
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