2008 elections in India

2008 Indian elections

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Multiple State Assemblies of India went to elections in 2008.

Legislative Assembly elections

Polling Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
23 February 2008	Tripura		Communist Party of India	Manik Saha		Communist Party of India	Manik Sarkar
3 March 2008	Meghalaya		Indian National Congress	D. D. Lapang		Meghalaya Progressive Alliance	Donkupar Roy
5 March 2008	Nagaland		Democratic Alliance of Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio		Democratic Alliance of Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio
10 May 2008,16 May 2008 and 22 May 2008	Karnataka		President's Rule			Bharatiya Janata Party	B. S. Yediyurappa
14 and 20 November 2008	Chhattisgarh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Raman Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Raman Singh
27 November 2008	Madhya Pradesh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		Bharatiya Janata Party	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
29 November 2008	Delhi		Indian National Congress	Sheila Dikshit		Indian National Congress	Sheila Dikshit
2 December 2008	Mizoram		Mizo National Front	Zoramthanga		Indian National Congress	Lal Thanhawla
4 December 2008	Rajasthan		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vasundhara Raje		Indian National Congress	Ashok Gehlot
17,23 and 30 November and 7,13,17,24 December	Jammu and Kashmir		Indian National Congress	Ghulam Nabi Azad		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	Omar Abdullah
			Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party			Indian National Congress

The first batch of elections for the year was announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on 14 January 2008. This included the elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura. Elections in all polling stations of all three states were conducted using electronic voting machines (EVMs).Elections to the state Assembly of Karnataka was announced by the ECI on 2 April 2008. This was the first election to be held under the new boundaries drawn up by the Delimitation Commission of India. The elections were split into three phases. Elections in all polling stations of the state were conducted using EVMs.

Chhattisgarh

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	Vote Share
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	90	50	0	40.33
2	Indian National Congress	87	38	+ 1	38.63
3	Bahujan Samaj Party	90	2	0	6.11
	Total		90

Delhi

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress	69	43	- 4	40.31
2	Bharatiya Janata Party	69	23	+ 3	36.34
3	Bahujan Samaj Party	69	2	+ 2	14.05
4	Lok Janshakti Party	41	1	+1	1.35
4	Independent		1	0	3.92
	Total		70

Jammu and Kashmir

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Changed
1	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	28	0
3	Indian National Congress	17	- 3
2	Peoples Democratic Party	21	+ 5
4	Bharatiya Janata Party	11	+ 10
5	Independents	4	- 9
6	J&K National Panthers Party	3	- 1
7	CPI(Marxist)	1	- 1
7	J&K Democratic Party Nationalist	1	+ 1
7	People's Democratic Front	1	+ 1
	Total	87

Karnataka

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Changed
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	110	+ 31
2	Indian National Congress	80	+ 15
3	Janata Dal (Secular)	28
4	Others	7	- 15
	Total	224

Madhya Pradesh

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	228	143	- 30	37.64
2	Indian National Congress	228	71	+ 33	32.39
3	Bahujan Samaj Party	228	7	+ 5	8.97
4	Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party	201	5	+ 5	4.71
5	Independents		3	+ 1	8.23
6	Samajwadi Party	187	1	- 6	1.99
	Total		230

Meghalaya

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Change
2	Nationalist Congress Party	15	+ 1
3	United Democratic Party	11	+ 2
4	Independents	5	0
5	Hill State People's Democratic Party	2	0
6	Bharatiya Janata Party	1	- 1
6	Khun Hynnieutrip National Awakaning Movement	1	- 1
1	Indian National Congress	25	+ 3
	Total	60

Mizoram

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Change
1	Indian National Congress	32	+ 20
2	Mizo National Front	3	- 18
3	MPC	2	0
4	Zoram Nationalist Party	2	0
	Total	40

Nagaland

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Change
1	Nagaland Peoples Front	26	+ 7
4	Bharatiya Janata Party	2	- 5
2	Indian National Congress	23	- 2
3	Independents	7	+ 3
4	Nationalist Congress Party	2	+ 2
	Total	60

Rajasthan

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Changed
1	Indian National Congress	96	+ 40
2	Bharatiya Janata Party	78	- 42
3	Independents	14	- 1
4	Bahujan Samaj Party	6	+ 4
5	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3	+ 2
6	Loktantrik Samajwadi Party	1	+ 1
6	Janata Dal (United)	1	- 1
	Total	199/200

Tripura

SN	Party	Seats won	Seats Change
1	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	46	+ 8
3	Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	0
4	Communist Party of India	1	0
2	Indian National Congress	10	- 3
4	Indigenous Nationalist Party of Twipra	1	- 5
	Total	60

Local body elections

• 2008 Uttarakhand local body elections

See also

• N. Gopalaswami

External links

• Election Commission of India