2009 elections in India


Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh


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

In a major political development, four Trinamool Congress and five Nationalist Congress Party 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.
SNPartyNo. of candidatesNo. of electedNo. of votes %
1Indian National Congress904035.08
3Independents779713.16
4Haryana Janhit Congress 8767.40
2Indian National Lok Dal883125.79
5Bharatiya Janata Party9049.04
6Bahujan Samaj Party8616.73
7Shiromani Akali Dal210.98
Total:122290100

In a 90 members Haryana assembly Congress won 40 seats, 5 short of simple majority.
In 2009 vidhan sabha elections, Haryana Janhit Congress emerged winner on following six seats.
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

Maharashtra

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
SNPartySeats ContestedNo. of elected% Votes
1Indian National Congress1708221.01
2Nationalist Congress Party1136216.37
3Bharatiya Janata Party1194614.02
4Shiv Sena1604416.26
5Independent18.202415.50
6Maharashtra Navnirman Sena143135.71
7Peasants And Workers Party of India1741.11
8Samajwadi Party3140.74
9Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi420.46
9Jan Surajya Shakti3721.27
10Communist Party of India 2010.60
10Rashtriya Samaj Paksha2610.41
10Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh10320.83
10Lok Sangram210.13
10Swabhimani Paksha1410.78
11Bahujan Samaj Party28102.35
Total:288

Orissa

Sikkim