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{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 2000 elections in India
| previous_year = 2000
| election_date = 2001
| next_election = 2002 elections in India
| next_year = 2002
}}
{{Politics of 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==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
! Date(s)
!State
! colspan="2" |Government before election
!Chief Minister before election
! colspan="2" |Government after election
!Chief Minister after election
!Maps
|-
| rowspan="6" |10 May 2001
| [[2001 Assam Legislative Assembly election|Assam]]
| {{Full party name with color|Asom Gana Parishad}}
|[[Prafulla Kumar Mahanta]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Tarun Gogoi]]
|[[File:IN-AS.svg|50px]]
|-
|[[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|Kerala]]
| {{Full party name with color|Left Democratic Front (Kerala)}}
|[[E. K. Nayanar]]
|{{Full party name with color|United Democratic Front (Kerala)}}
|[[A. K. Antony]]
|[[File:IN-KL.svg|50px]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[2001 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election|Pondicherry]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|rowspan="2"|[[P. Shanmugham]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|rowspan="2"|[[P. Shanmugham]]
|rowspan="2"|[[File:IN-PY.svg|50px]]
|-
|{{Full party name with color|Tamil Maanila Congress}}
| {{Full party name with color|Tamil Maanila Congress}}
|-
| [[2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|Tamil Nadu]]
| {{Full party name with color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
| [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| {{Full party name with color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
| [[J. Jayalalithaa]]
| [[File:IN-TN.svg|50px]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal]]
| {{Full party name with color|Left Front (West Bengal)}}
| [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]]
| {{Full party name with color|Left Front (West Bengal)}}
|[[Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]]
| [[File:IN-WB.svg|50px]]
|}

==Legislative Assembly elections==
===Assam===
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Assam Legislative Assembly 2001.svg]]
|party1=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes1=4230676|-|seats1=71|sc1={{increase}}37
|party2=[[Asom Gana Parishad]]|votes2=2130118|seats2=20|sc2={{decrease}}39
|party3=[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]|votes3=995004|seats3=8|sc3={{increase}}4
|party4=[[Nationalist Congress Party]]|votes4=267173|seats4=3|sc4={{increase}}1
|party5=[[Autonomous State Demand Committee]]|votes5=118610|seats5=2|sc5={{decrease}}3
|party6=[[Samajwadi Party]]|votes6=109822|seats6=1|sc6=New
|party7=[[Samata Party]]|votes7=83815|seats7=1|sc7=New
|party8=[[All India Trinamool Congress]]|votes8=58361|seats8=1|sc8=New
|party9=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]|votes9=189349|seats9=0|sc9={{decrease}}2
|party10=[[Communist Party of India]]|votes10=116889|seats10=0|sc10={{decrease}}3
|party11=[[Autonomous State Demand Committee (Progressive)]]|votes11=98032|seats11=0|sc11=New
|party12=[[United Minorities Front, Assam]]|votes12=43712|seats12=0|sc12={{decrease}}2
|party13=[[People's Democratic Front (India)]]|votes13=35147|seats13=0|sc13=New
|party14=Others|votes14=88626|seats14=0|sc14=0
|party15=Independents|votes15=2076653|seats15=19|sc15={{increase}}8
|total_sc={{increase}}4
|invalid=188628
|electorate=14439167
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eci.gov.in/files/file/4007-assam-2001/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=10 February 2022}}</ref>
}}

===Kerala===
{{Main|2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
'''Party-wise vote share of 2001 Kerala Assembly Elections<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralaassembly.org/brief01.html |title=Kerala Assembly Elections 2001 |website=Kerala Assembly |access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref>'''
!Sl.No:
!Party
!Contested
!Won
!Popular Votes
!Share (%)
|-
|1
|[[Indian National Congress|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|Kerala Congress - Mani]] (KCM)
|11
|9
|556647
|3.54
|-
|5
|[[Communist Party of India]] (CPI)
|24
|7
|1212248
|7.7
|-
|6
|[[Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy|Janadhipatya Samrakshana Samithi]] (JSS)
|5
|4
|279831
|1.78
|-
|7
|[[Janata Dal (Secular)|Janata Dal- Secular]] (JDS)
|10
|3
|546917
|3.48
|-
|8
|[[Kerala Congress (Joseph)|Kerala Congress - Joseph]] (KCJ)
|10
|2
|455748
|2.9
|-
|9
|[[Nationalist Congress Party]] (NCP)
|9
|2
|408456
|2.6
|-
|10
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]] (RSP)
|6
|2
|269689
|1.71
|-
|11
|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik)|Revolutionary Socialist Party - Bolshevik]] (RSPB)
|4
|2
|215562
|1.37
|-
|12
|[[Kerala Congress (Jacob)|Kerala Congress - Jacob]] (KCA)
|4
|2
|207618
|1.32
|-
|13
|[[Kerala Congress (B)|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 ([[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]])
|2
|0
|91058
|0.58
|-
|17
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP)
|123
|0
|789762
|5.02
|-
|18
|BJP Allies ([[Janata Dal (United)|JD(U)]]: 4, Samata: 2, [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]]: 1)
|7
|0
|10089
|0.06
|-
|19
|Others/ Independents
|266
|1
|340692
|2.16
|-
| colspan="2" |'''Total'''
|'''676'''
|'''140'''
|'''15736894'''
|'''100'''
|}

===Puducherry===

{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Pondicherry Legislative Assembly 2001.svg]]
|party1=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes1=108700|seats1=11|sc1={{increase}}2
|party2=[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]|votes2=83679|seats2=7|sc2=0
|party3=[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]|votes3=59926|seats3=3|sc3=0
|party4=[[Puducherry Makkal Congress]]|votes4=48865|seats4=4|sc4=New
|party5=[[Tamil Maanila Congress]]|votes5=35390|seats5=2|sc5={{decrease}}3
|party6=[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]|votes6=22164|seats6=1|sc6={{increase}}1
|party20=Others|votes20=66981|seats20=0|sc20=0
|party21=Independents|votes21=51402|seats21=2|sc21=0
|total_sc=0
|invalid=252
|electorate=658647
|source=ECI<ref name=election2001>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3436-puducherry-2001/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref>
}}

===Tamil Nadu===
{{Main|2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election}}
[[File:2001 tamil nadu legislative election map by parties.png|thumb|Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left]]
{{Election table|title=Summary of the 2001 May [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Assembly]] [[2001 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election|election results]] in [[Tamil Nadu]]}}
|-
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Alliance/Party
!style="width:4px" |
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats won
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Popular Vote
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote %
! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Adj. %‡
|-
! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance
! style="background-color: {{party color|AIADMK}}" |
| '''196'''
| '''+138'''
| '''14,043,980'''
|style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 | '''50.1%'''
|-
|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|AIADMK]]
! style="background-color: #008000" |
| 132
| +127
| 8,815,387
| 31.4%
| 52.1%
|-
|[[Tamil Maanila Congress|TMC(M)]]
! style="background-color: #008080" |
| 23
| -15
| 1,885,726
| 6.7%
| 47.5%
|-
|[[Pattali Makkal Katchi|PMK]]
! style="background-color: #800080" |
| 20
| +16
| 1,557,500
| 5.6%
| 46.8%
|-
|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
! style="background-color: #00FFFF" |
| 7
| +7
| 696,205
| 2.5%
| 45.4%
|-
|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]
! style="background-color: #000080" |
| 6
| +4
| 470,736
| 1.7%
| 48.2%
|-
|[[Communist Party of India|CPI]]
! style="background-color: #0000FF" |
| 5
| -3
| 444,710
| 1.6%
| 48.5%
|-
|[[Independent politician|IND]]
! style="background-color: Black" |
| 2
| +2
| 103,971
| 0.4%
| 46.6%
|-
|[[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]]
! style="background-color: #800000" |
| 1
| +1
| 39,248
| 0.1%
| 43.3%
|-
|[[Indian Union Muslim League|MUL]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| -1
| 30,497
| 0.1%
| 41.7%
|-
! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance
! style="background-color: Red" |
| '''37'''
| '''-138'''
| '''10,841,157'''
|style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 | '''38.7%'''
|-
|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]]
! style="background-color: Red" |
| 31
| -142
| 8,669,864
| 30.9%
| 39.0%
|-
|[[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
! style="background-color: {{party color|BJP}}" |
| 4
| +3
| 895,352
| 3.2%
| 38.7%
|-
|[[MGR Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|MADMK]]
! style="background-color: #FFFF00" |
| 2
| +1
| 129,474
| 0.5%
| 37.1%
|-
|[[Puthiya Tamilakam|PT]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 355,171
| 1.3%
| 33.8%
|-
|[[Makkal Tamil Desam Katchi|MTD]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 257,126
| 0.9%
| 40.9%
|-
|[[Puthiya Needhi Katchi|PNK]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 196,740
| 0.7%
| 33.6%
|-
|[[MGR Kazhagam|MGRK]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 136,916
| 0.5%
| 40.8%
|-
|[[Thamilar Bhoomi|TB]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 45,002
| 0.2%
| 40.0%
|-
|[[Kongunadu Makkal Katchi|CNMK]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 40,421
| 0.1%
| 32.4%
|-
|[[Independent politician|IND]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 115,091
| 0.4%
| 36.7%
|-
! style="background-color:Black; color:white"|Others
! style="background-color: Black" |
| '''1'''
| '''–'''
| '''3,192,598'''
|style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 |'''11.4%'''
|-
|[[Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|MDMK]]
! style="background-color: " |
| 0
| –
| 1,304,469
| 4.7%
| 5.1%
|-
|[[Independent politician|IND]]
! style="background-color: #4d4d4d" |
| 1
| –
| 1,509,378
| 6.2%
| 6.3%
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |'''Total'''
! style="background-color: " |
| 234
| –
| 28,037,314
| 100%
| –
|-
|}{{refbegin}}
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<ref>{{cite web |title = 2001 Tamil Nadu Election Results |url= http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/Stat_Rep_TN_2001.pdf |date = 12 May 2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006173934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/Stat_Rep_TN_2001.pdf |archive-date=6 October 2010}}</ref> and Rediff Newspaper
<ref>{{cite web |title =The Assembly Elections 2001: Tamil Nadu | url =http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/13tami.htm?h=splitinfinity&d=get&sony}}</ref>
{{refend}}

===West Bengal===
{{Main|2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001<ref name= eci>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||211||143||13,402,603||36.59%||
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Trinamool Congress}}
|align="left"|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]||226||60||11,229,396||30.66%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||60||26||2,921,151||7.98%||
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Forward Bloc}}
|align="left"|[[All India Forward Bloc]]||34||25||2,067,944||5.65%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}
|align="left"|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]||23||17||1,256,951||3.43%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||13||7||655,237||1.79%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[West Bengal Socialist Party]]||4||4||246,407||0.67%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Gorkha National Liberation Front}}
|align="left"|[[Gorkha National Liberation Front]]||5||3||190,057||0.52%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Biplobi Bangla Congress]]||1||1||62,611||0.09%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||530||9||1,848,830||5.05%||
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||'''1676'''||'''294'''||'''36,626,099'''||||
|-
|}

==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|2001 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |url=https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/statistical-reports/ |title=Election Results - Full Statistical Reports |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}

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