The State Assembly elections in India, 2007 took place between 8 February 2007 and 23 February 2007 for Indian States of [Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Elections for Gujarat were held in December 2007. Elections for Goa were held June 2, 2007 to June 5, 2007.

Results Date(s)StateGovernment before electionChief Minister before electionGovernment after electionChief Minister after electionMaps 30 January 2007Punjab Amarinder Singh Parkash Singh Badal 28 January 2012Manipur Okram Ibobi SinghOkram Ibobi Singh 21 February 2007Uttarakhand N. D. Tiwari B. C. Khanduri 7 April 2007 – 8 May 2007 Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav Mayawati 2 June 2007Goa Pratapsingh Rane Digambar Kamat 14 November and 19 December 2007 Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Prem Kumar Dhumal 11 and 16 December 2007 Gujarat Narendra Modi Narendra Modi Counting of votes was done on 27 February 2007 and the results were announced on the same date.

The Indian National Congress, who were the incumbents in Punjab and Uttarakhand lost their majorities in both states.

Goa

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats Won1Indian National Congress32163Nationalist Congress Party634Save Goa Front1722Bharatiya Janata Party33144Maharashtrawadi Gomantak2625United Goans Democratic Party1114Independent492 Total 40

Congress emerge as single largest party after results. Congress formed government in alliance with NCP and SGF. SGF later merged in Congress to raise its tally to 18.

Gujarat Ranks Party Seats Contested Seats Won % Votes1Bharatiya Janata Party18211749.122Indian National Congress1735938.003Nationalist Congress Party1031.054Independent18226.615Janata Dal (United)3510.666Bahujan Samaj Party16602.62 Total 182

Himachal Pradesh Rank Party Seats Contested Seats won % votes1Bharatiya Janata Party684143.782Indian National Congress672338.93Independent6037.974Bahujan Samaj Party6717.26 Total 68

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly ConstituencyTurnout WinnerRunner UpMargin #k Names% Candidate Party Votes% Candidate Party Votes%1Poonch Haveli68.51%Jahangir Hussain Mir20,69731.14%Yash Paul Sharma16,29924.52%4,398

Manipur Elections in Manipur were held in three phases on 8 February 14 and 23 February.

The Indian National Congress won by a simple majority. A Congress-led coalition government was sworn in on 1 March 2007 with Okram Ibobi Singh as the Chief Minister.

Punjab

Elections in Punjab was held on 13 February 2007.

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats Won % Votes1Shiromani Akali Dal934837.093Bharatiya Janata Party23198.282Indian National Congress1164440.904Independent43156.825Bahujan Samaj Party11504.13 Total 117

A Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government sworn on 2 March 2007 with Parkash Singh Badal as the Chief Minister.

Uttarakhand

Elections in Uttarakhand was held on 21 February 2007.

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats Won % Votes1Bharatiya Janata Party703531.904Uttarakhand Kranti Dal6135.494Independent240310.812Indian National Congress702129.593Bahujan Samaj Party70811.76 Total 70/70

The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the largest party with 35 seats in a house of 70. They were still one short of the majority to form a government. After much wrangling it was announced that the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and the three independents would be supporting the government. Elections to Bajpur are still to take place. The incumbent Indian National Congress Government lost as they had only 21 seats out of 70 seats.

After protracted discussions it was announced the B. C. Khanduri would be Chief Minister and B. S. Koshyari was to manage party work.

Uttar Pradesh

Rank Party Seats Contested Seats Won % Votes1Bahujan Samaj Party40320630.432Samajwadi Party3939725.433Bharatiya Janata Party3505116.974Indian National Congress393228.615Rashtriya Lok Dal254103.706Independent 25896.977Rashtriya Parivartan Dal1420.208Janata Dal (United)1610.428Uttar Pradesh United Democratic Front5410.358Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party12210.268Jan Morcha11810.608Bharatiya Jan Shakti6610.248 Akhil Bhartiya Loktantrik Congress210.18 Total 403

Elections in Uttar Pradesh were held in seven phases during April and May 2007. In the end, Mayawati's B.S.P won this election.

See also N. Gopalaswami

References

External links

Election Commission of India – State Elections, 2007 Election Commission of India