2001 elections in India

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

Overall Results

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before election		Chief Minister after election
10 May 2001	Assam	Asom Gana Parishad	Prafulla Kumar Mahanta	Indian National Congress	Tarun Gogoi
10 May 2001	Kerala	Left Democratic Front	E. K. Nayanar	United Democratic Front	A. K. Antony
10 May 2001	Pondicherry	Indian National Congress	P. Shanmugham	Indian National Congress	P. Shanmugham
10 May 2001	Pondicherry	Tamil Maanila Congress	P. Shanmugham	Tamil Maanila Congress	P. Shanmugham
10 May 2001	Tamil Nadu	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. Karunanidhi	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	J. Jayalalithaa
10 May 2001	West Bengal	Left Front	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya	Left Front	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

Legislative Assembly elections

Assam



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	4,230,676	39.75	71	37
	Asom Gana Parishad	2,130,118	20.02	20	39
	Bharatiya Janata Party	995,004	9.35	8	4
	Nationalist Congress Party	267,173	2.51	3	1
	Autonomous State Demand Committee	118,610	1.11	2	3
	Samajwadi Party	109,822	1.03	1	New
	Samata Party	83,815	0.79	1	New
	All India Trinamool Congress	58,361	0.55	1	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	189,349	1.78	0	2
	Communist Party of India	116,889	1.10	0	3
	Autonomous State Demand Committee (Progressive)	98,032	0.92	0	New
	United Minorities Front, Assam	43,712	0.41	0	2
	People's Democratic Front (India)	35,147	0.33	0	New
	Others	88,626	0.83	0	0
	Independents	2,076,653	19.51	19	8
Total		10,641,987	100.00	126	4

Valid votes		10,641,987	98.26
Invalid/blank votes		188,628	1.74
Total votes		10,830,615	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		14,439,167	75.01
Source: ECI^[1]

Kerala

**Party-wise vote share of 2001 Kerala Assembly Elections^[2]**
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



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	108,700	22.78	11	2
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	83,679	17.54	7	0
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	59,926	12.56	3	0
	Puducherry Makkal Congress	48,865	10.24	4	New
	Tamil Maanila Congress	35,390	7.42	2	3
	Bharatiya Janata Party	22,164	4.65	1	1
	Others	66,981	14.04	0	0
	Independents	51,402	10.77	2	0
Total		477,107	100.00	30	0

Valid votes		477,107	99.95
Invalid/blank votes		252	0.05
Total votes		477,359	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		658,647	72.48
Source: ECI^[3]

Tamil Nadu

Summary of the 2001 May Assembly election results in Tamil Nadu
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^[4] and Rediff Newspaper ^[5]

West Bengal

Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001^[6]
Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes
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

References

^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ "Kerala Assembly Elections 2001". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^ "2001 Tamil Nadu Election Results" (PDF). 12 May 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010.
^ "The Assembly Elections 2001: Tamil Nadu".
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India.

External links

"Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India.

[1] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[:0-2] "Kerala Assembly Elections 2001". Kerala Assembly. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[election2001-3] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

[4] "2001 Tamil Nadu Election Results" (PDF). 12 May 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2010.

[5] "The Assembly Elections 2001: Tamil Nadu".

[eci-6] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India.

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