2009 elections in India

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Seats Change	Vote Share
1	Indian National Congress	294	156	- 29	36.56
3	Praja Rajyam Party	285	18	+ 18	16.22
2	Telugu Desam Party	230	92	+ 45	28.12
4	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	45	10	- 16	3.99
5	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	8	7	+ 3	0.83
6	Communist Party of India	15	4	- 2	1.31
7	Independents	1406	3	- 8	4.57
8	Bharatiya Janata Party	271	2	+ 0	2.84
9	Lok Satta Party	246	1	+ 1	1.80
9	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	18	1	- 8	1.35
	Total		294

Praja Rajyam was a regional political party in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, founded by Telugu cinema actor Chiranjeevi on August 26, 2008.
On 2011, 6 February it was officially announced that the party would be merging into Indian National Congress.
As announced, it was formally merged with Indian National Congress in August 2011

Arunachal Pradesh

SN	Party	Seats contested	No. of elected	Seats changed
1	Indian National Congress	60	42/55	+ 8/+ 21
2	Nationalist Congress Party	37	5/0	+ 3/- 2
2	All India Trinamool Congress	26	5/1	+ 5/+ 1
3	People's Party of Arunachal	10	4/0	+ 4/0
4	Bharatiya Janata Party	18	3	- 6
5	Independent	6	1	- 12
	Total:	157	60

In a major political development, four Trinamool Congress (TMC) and five Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislators joined the ruling Congress on October 7, 2012, increasing its strength to 55 in the 60-member assembly. The four PPA MLAs had already switched over to the Congress on February 14, 2012. With this, the parties' positions in the assembly has changed to Congress 55 seats, BJP three seats, and TMC and Independents one seat each.

Haryana

In the Haryana assembly elections, 2009 Indian National Congress could not get majority.

SN	Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	No. of votes %
1	Indian National Congress	90	40	35.08
3	Independents	779	7	13.16
4	Haryana Janhit Congress (BL)	87	6	7.40
2	Indian National Lok Dal	88	31	25.79
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	90	4	9.04
6	Bahujan Samaj Party	86	1	6.73
7	Shiromani Akali Dal	2	1	0.98
	Total:	1222	90	100

In a 90 members Haryana assembly Congress won 40 seats, 5 short of simple majority.

In 2009 vidhan sabha elections, Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) emerged winner on following six seats.

• Adampur - Kuldeep Bishnoi
• Assandh - Jile Ram
• Charkhi Dadri - Satpal Sangwan
• Hansi - Vinod Bhayana
• Narnaul - Rao Narender Singh
• Samalkha - Dharam Singh Chhokar

All 5 M.L.A from above list left Haryana Janhit Congress and joined Indian National Congress with a merger, thus leaving Kuldeep Bishnoi as single legislator of the Party in Haryana Vidhan Sabha.

Thus the Indian National Congress achieved a simple majority.
Independents members also gave support to Indian National Congress to form stable government.

Jharkhand

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	-	18	-
2	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	-	18	-
3	All Jharkhand Students Union	-	05
4	Janata Dal (United)	-	02	-
5	Indian National Congress	-	14	-
6	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM)	-	11
7	Rashtriya Janata Dal	-	5	-
8	Independent	-	02	-
9	CPI(ML) Liberation		1	-
10	Jharkhand Party	-	-	-
11	Marxist Co-ordination Committee	-	-	-
12	Jai Bharat Samanta Party	-	01	-
13	Jharkhand Janadikhar Manch	-	-	-
14	Rashtriya Kalyan Paksha	-	01	-
15	Bahujan Samaj Party	-	-	-
	Total		80	100

Maharashtra

Main article: 2009 Maharashtra state assembly elections

The Indian National Congress& the Nationalist Congress Party alliance, the Democratic Front or the Aghadi scored a decisive victory over the Mahayuti alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena. The Democratic front alliance secured 144 seats out of the possible 288. The Mahayutiended with a dismal 90 seats. The main reason for the dismal performance of the Mayavati alliance was the spoilsport played by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of Raj Thackeray. They split the Marathi votebank, a traditional stronghold of the Shivsena

SN	Party	Seats Contested	No. of elected	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress	170	82	21.01
2	Nationalist Congress Party	113	62	16.37
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	119	46	14.02
4	Shiv Sena	160	44	16.26
5	Independent	18.20	24	15.50
6	Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	143	13	5.71
7	Peasants And Workers Party of India	17	4	1.11
8	Samajwadi Party	31	4	0.74
9	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi	4	2	0.46
9	Jan Surajya Shakti	37	2	1.27
10	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	20	1	0.60
10	Rashtriya Samaj Paksha	26	1	0.41
10	Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh	103	2	0.83
10	Lok Sangram	2	1	0.13
10	Swabhimani Paksha	14	1	0.78
11	Bahujan Samaj Party	281	0	2.35
	Total:		288

Orissa

SN	Party	No. of elected
1	Biju Janata Dal	103
2	Indian National Congress	27
	Bharatiya Janata Party	6
4	Communist Party of India	1
5	Nationalist Congress Party	4
6	independents	6
	Total:	147

Sikkim

SN	Party	No. of elected
1	Sikkim Democratic Front	32
2	Indian National Congress	0
	Total:	32

See also

• Navin Chawla
• N. Gopalaswami

External links

• Election Commission of India