2002 elections in India
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Elections in the Republic of India in 2002 included elections to seven state legislative assemblies and the elections for the posts of President and vice-president.
Legislative Assembly elections
Goa
Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 39 | 17 |
2 | Indian National Congress | 40 | 16 |
4 | United Goans Democratic Party | 10 | 3 |
3 | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak |
25 | 2 |
5 | Nationalist Congress Party | 20 | 1 |
6 | Independent |
48 | 1 |
Total | 40 |
Gujarat
Party | Seats won |
---|---|
Bharatiya Janata Party | 127 |
Indian National Congress | 51 |
Janata Dal (United) | 2 |
Independents | 2 |
Jammu & Kashmir
Manipur
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 345,660 | 26.18 | 20 | +9 | |
Federal Party of Manipur | 239,444 | 18.14 | 13 | +7 | |
Manipur State Congress Party | 163,758 | 12.40 | 7 | –16 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 126,044 | 9.55 | 4 | –2 | |
Nationalist Congress Party | 124,583 | 9.44 | 3 | –2 | |
Samata Party | 109,912 | 8.33 | 3 | +2 | |
Communist Party of India | 58,102 | 4.40 | 5 | +5 | |
Democratic Revolutionary Peoples Party | 51,916 | 3.93 | 2 | +2 | |
Manipur National Conference | 53,146 | 4.03 | 1 | New | |
Manipur Peoples Party | 40,006 | 3.03 | 2 | –2 | |
Janata Dal (United) | 2,070 | 0.16 | 0 | –1 | |
Naga National Party | 630 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 340 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | 166 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Lok Shakti | 45 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 4,343 | 0.33 | 0 | –1 | |
Total | 1,320,165 | 100.00 | 60 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,320,165 | 99.23 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 10,294 | 0.77 | |||
Total votes | 1,330,459 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,472,919 | 90.33 | |||
Source: ECI[1] |
Punjab
Political Party |
No. of Candidates |
Seats won |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 105 | 62 | 3,682,877 | 35.81% | |
Shiromani Akali Dal | 92 | 41 | 3,196,924 | 31.08% | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 | 3 | 583,214 | 5.67% | |
Communist Party of India | 11 | 2 | 220,785 | 2.15% | |
Independents |
274 | 9 | 1,159,552 | 11.27% | |
Total[3] | 923 | 117 | 10,284,686 |
Uttar Pradesh
Party Name | Seats |
---|---|
Samajwadi Party | 143 |
Bahujan Samaj Party | 98 |
Indian National Congress | 25 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 88 |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 |
Janata Dal (United) | 2 |
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha
|
1 |
Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress | 2 |
Apna Dal
|
3 |
National Loktantrik Party | 1 |
Rashtriya Lok Dal | 14 |
Rashtriya Parivartan Dal | 1 |
Rashtriya Kranti Party | 4 |
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | 1 |
Independents | 16 |
Total | 403 |
Elections.in[4] EIC[5] |
Uttarakhand
Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | % Votes | % Votes in Seats Contested |
Leader in the House |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Indian National Congress (INC) | 70 | 36 | 26.91% | 26.91% | Narayan Datt Tiwari
|
2 | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 69 | 19 | 25.45% | 25.81% | Matbar Singh Kandari |
3 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | 68 | 07 | 10.93% | 11.20% | Narayan Pal |
4 | Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) | 62 | 04 | 5.49% | 6.36% | Kashi Singh Airy |
5 | Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) | 26 | 01 | 1.50% | 4.02% | Balvir Singh Negi |
6 | Independents | – | 03 | 16.30% | 16.63% | N/A |
Total | – | 70 | – | – |
Presidential election
An election was held on 15 July 2002 to elect the
11th President by beating his nearest rival Lakshmi Sahgal.[6]
States
|
No. of MLA/MPs | Value of each Vote | Total (Votes) | Total (Values) | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Votes) | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Values) | Lakshmi Sahgal (Votes) | Lakshmi Sahgal (Values) | Invalid (Votes) | Invalid (Values) | Valid (Votes) | Valid (Values) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Members of Parliament | 776 | 708 | 760 | 538,080 | 638 | 451,704 | 80 | 56,640 | 42 | 29,736 | 718 | 50,8344 |
Andhra Pradesh | 294 | 148 | 283 | 41,884 | 264 | 39,072 | 2 | 296 | 17 | 2,516 | 266 | 39,368 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 60 | 8 | 57 | 456 | 57 | 456 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 456 |
Assam | 126 | 116 | 119 | 13,804 | 113 | 13,108 | 1 | 116 | 5 | 580 | 114 | 13,224 |
Bihar | 243 | 173 | 234 | 40,482 | 215 | 37,195 | 17 | 2,941 | 2 | 346 | 232 | 40,136 |
Chhattisgarh | 90 | 129 | 90 | 11,610 | 85 | 10,965 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 645 | 85 | 10,965 |
Goa | 40 | 20 | 39 | 780 | 34 | 680 | 3 | 60 | 2 | 40 | 37 | 740 |
Gujarat | 182 | 147 | 179 | 26,313 | 174 | 25,578 | 2 | 294 | 3 | 441 | 176 | 25,872 |
Haryana | 90 | 112 | 86 | 9,632 | 86 | 9,632 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 9,632 |
Himachal Pradesh | 68 | 51 | 64 | 3,264 | 62 | 3,162 | 1 | 51 | 1 | 51 | 63 | 3,213 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 87 | 72 | 78 | 5,616 | 72 | 5,184 | 2 | 144 | 4 | 288 | 74 | 5,328 |
Jharkhand | 81 | 176 | 79 | 13,904 | 74 | 13,024 | 5 | 880 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 13,904 |
Karnataka | 224 | 131 | 220 | 28,820 | 202 | 26,462 | 13 | 1,703 | 5 | 655 | 215 | 28,165 |
Kerala | 140 | 152 | 138 | 20,976 | 97 | 14,744 | 39 | 5,928 | 2 | 304 | 136 | 20,672 |
Madhya Pradesh | 230 | 131 | 229 | 29,999 | 216 | 28,296 | 2 | 262 | 11 | 1,441 | 218 | 28,558 |
Maharashtra | 288 | 175 | 280 | 49,000 | 264 | 46,200 | 9 | 1,575 | 7 | 1,225 | 273 | 47,775 |
Manipur | 60 | 18 | 58 | 1,044 | 50 | 900 | 4 | 72 | 4 | 72 | 54 | 972 |
Meghalaya | 60 | 17 | 56 | 952 | 53 | 901 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 34 | 54 | 918 |
Mizoram | 40 | 8 | 40 | 320 | 40 | 320 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 320 |
Nagaland | 60 | 9 | 60 | 540 | 54 | 486 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 54 | 54 | 486 |
Orissa
|
147 | 149 | 146 | 21,754 | 130 | 19,370 | 12 | 1,788 | 4 | 596 | 142 | 21,158 |
Punjab
|
117 | 116 | 110 | 12,760 | 87 | 10,092 | 9 | 1,044 | 14 | 1,624 | 96 | 1,1136 |
Rajasthan | 200 | 129 | 197 | 25,413 | 189 | 24,381 | 2 | 258 | 6 | 774 | 191 | 24,639 |
Sikkim | 32 | 7 | 32 | 224 | 30 | 210 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 30 | 210 |
Tamil Nadu | 234 | 176 | 233 | 41,111 | 217 | 38,192 | 10 | 1,760 | 6 | 1,056 | 227 | 39,952 |
Tripura | 60 | 26 | 60 | 1,560 | 17 | 442 | 41 | 1,066 | 2 | 52 | 58 | 1,508 |
Uttarakhand | 70 | 64 | 69 | 4,416 | 63 | 4,032 | 3 | 192 | 3 | 192 | 66 | 4,224 |
Uttar Pradesh | 403 | 208 | 397 | 82,576 | 386 | 80,288 | 2 | 416 | 9 | 1,872 | 388 | 80,704 |
West Bengal | 294 | 151 | 292 | 44,092 | 90 | 13,590 | 197 | 29,747 | 5 | 755 | 287 | 43,337 |
Delhi | 70 | 58 | 70 | 4,060 | 65 | 3,770 | 2 | 116 | 3 | 174 | 67 | 3,886 |
Pondicherry | 147 | 127 | 145 | 18,415 | 147 | 448 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 28 | 448 |
TOTALS | 4,896 | 4,785 | 1,075,819 | 4,152 | 922,884 | 459 | 107,366 | 174 | 45,569 | 4,611 | 1,030,250 | |
Source: Election Commission of India |
Vice-Presidential election
An election was held on 12 August 2002 to elect the newly vacated post of
11th Vice President of India.[7] Incumbent VP Krishan Kant
did not contest the election and died before the election occurred.
Candidate |
Party |
Electoral Votes |
% of Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | BJP | 454 | 59.82 | |
Sushil Kumar Shinde |
INC | 305 | 40.18 | |
Total | 759 | 100.00 | ||
Valid Votes | 759 | 99.09 | ||
Invalid Votes | 7 | 0.91 | ||
Turnout | 766 | 96.96 | ||
Abstentions | 24 | 3.04 | ||
Electors | 790 |
References
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2002 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2002 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India
- ^ The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2002". elections.in. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ "Election Commission of India : Statistical Report on General Election, 2002 to The Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" (PDF). eci.nic.in.
- ^ "A P J Abdul Kalam elected 11th President of India". Rediff.com. July 18, 2002. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
- ^ a b "BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
- The Tribune. August 12, 2002. Retrieved May 25, 2016.