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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 2006 elections in India
| previous_year = 2006
| election_date = 2007
| next_election = 2008 elections in India
| next_year = 2008
}}
{{Politics of India}}
The '''State Assembly elections in India, 2007''' took place between 8 February 2007 and 23 February 2007 for [[States and union territories of India|Indian States]] of [Himachal Pradesh, [[Manipur]], [[Punjab, India|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==
{| 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="2" | 30 January 2007
| rowspan="2" |[[2007 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|Punjab]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Amarinder Singh]]
| {{Full party name with color|Shiromani Akali Dal}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Parkash Singh Badal]]
| rowspan="2" |[[File:IN-PB.svg|50px]]
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|28 January 2012
|[[2012 Manipur Legislative Assembly election|Manipur]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Okram Ibobi Singh]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Okram Ibobi Singh]]
|[[File:IN-MN.svg|50px]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 21 February 2007
| rowspan="2" |[[2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election|Uttarakhand]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
| rowspan="2" |[[N. D. Tiwari]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| rowspan="2" |[[B. C. Khanduri]]
| rowspan="2" |[[File:IN-UT.svg|50px]]
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal}}
|-
| 7 April 2007 – 8 May 2007
| [[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Uttar Pradesh]]
| {{Full party name with color|Samajwadi Party}}
| [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}
| [[Mayawati]]
| [[File:IN-UP.svg|50px]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |2 June 2007
| rowspan="3" |[[2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election|Goa]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=3}}
| rowspan="3" |[[Pratapsingh Rane]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| rowspan="3" |[[Digambar Kamat]]
| rowspan="3" |[[File:IN-GA.svg|50px]]
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Nationalist Congress Party}}
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}
|-
| 14 November and 19 December 2007
| [[2007 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Himachal Pradesh]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[Virbhadra Singh]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| [[Prem Kumar Dhumal]]
|[[File:IN-HP.svg|50px]]
|-
| 11 and 16 December 2007
| [[2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election|Gujarat]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| [[Narendra Modi]]
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| [[Narendra Modi]]
|[[File:IN-GJ.svg|50px]]
|}
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 ===
{{Main|2007 Goa state assembly elections}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! align="center" | Rank
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|1||align="left"|'''[[Indian National Congress]]'''||32||'''16'''
|-style="background: #90EE90;"
|3||align="left"|'''[[Nationalist Congress Party]]'''||6||'''3'''
|-style="background: #90EE90;"
|4||align="left"|'''Save Goa Front'''||17||'''2'''
|-
|2||align="left"|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''||33||'''14'''
|-
|4||align="left"|'''[[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak]]'''||26||'''2'''
|-
|5||align="left"|'''[[United Goans Democratic Party]]'''||11||'''1'''
|-
|4||align="left"|'''[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]'''||49||'''2'''
|-
| ||align="centre"|'''Total '''|| ||'''40'''
|}

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

===Gujarat===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! align="center" | Ranks
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
! align="center" | % Votes
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|1||align="left"|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''||182||'''117'''||'''49.12'''
|-
|2||align="left"|'''[[Indian National Congress]]'''||173||'''59'''||'''38.00'''
|-
|3||align="left"|'''[[Nationalist Congress Party]]'''||10||'''3'''||'''1.05'''
|-
|4||align="left"|'''[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]'''||182||'''2'''||'''6.61'''
|-
|5||align="left"|'''[[Janata Dal (United)]]'''||35||'''1'''||'''0.66'''
|-
|6||align="left"|'''[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]'''||166||'''0'''||'''2.62'''
|-
| ||align="centre"|'''Total '''|| ||'''182'''||''' '''
|}

=== Himachal Pradesh ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! align="center" | Rank
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats won
! align="center" | % votes
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|1||align="left"|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''||68||'''41'''||'''43.78'''
|-
|2||align="left"|'''[[Indian National Congress]]'''||67||'''23'''||'''38.9'''
|-
|3||align="left"|'''[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]'''||60||'''3'''||'''7.97'''
|-
|4||align="left"|'''[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]'''||67||'''1'''||'''7.26'''
|-
| ||align="centre"|'''Total '''|| ||'''68'''||''' '''
|}

=== Jammu and Kashmir ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Results by constituency<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/ByeElection/07to08/ac/bye_87jk.htm |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date = 1 January 2025 |title=Bye – Election – December, 2007 |publisher=Election Commission Of India |website=eci.gov.in}}</ref> |

! colspan="2" |Assembly Constituency
!Turnout
! colspan="5" |Winner
! colspan="5" |Runner Up
! rowspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Margin
|-
! #k
! Names
!%
! Candidate
! colspan="2" | Party
! data-sort-type=number | Votes
!%
! Candidate
! colspan="2" | Party
! data-sort-type=number | Votes
!%
|-
|1||[[Poonch Haveli Assembly constituency|Poonch Haveli]]||68.51%||[[Jahangir Hussain Mir]]||{{party name with color|Indian National Congress}}||20,697||31.14%||Yash Paul Sharma||{{party name with color|Independent politician}}||16,299||24.52%||style="background:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|<span style="color:white;">'''4,398'''</span>
|-
|}

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

{{Election results
|image=
|party1=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes1=507518|seats1=30|sc1=+10
|party2=[[Manipur Peoples Party]]|votes2=228670|seats2=5|sc2=+3
|party3=[[Nationalist Congress Party]]|votes3=127005|seats3=5|sc3=+2
|party4=[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]|votes4=98694|seats4=3|sc4=New
|party5=[[Communist Party of India]]|votes5=85643|seats5=4|sc5=–1
|party6=[[National People's Party (India)|National People's Party]]|votes6=51192|seats6=3|sc6=New
|party7=[[Manipur State Congress Party]]|votes7=27505|seats7=0|sc7=–7
|party8=[[Lok Jan Shakti Party]]|votes8=22233|seats8=0|sc8=–2
|party9=[[Samajwadi Party]]|votes9=13373|seats9=0|sc9=New
|party10=[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]|votes10=12536|seats10=0|sc10=-4
|party11=[[Janata Dal (Secular)]]|votes11=7144|seats11=0|sc11=New
|party12=[[Janata Dal (United)]]|votes12=4333|seats12=0|sc12=0
|party13=[[People's Democratic Alliance (Manipur)|People's Democratic Alliance]]|votes13=1508|seats13=0|sc13=New
|party14=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]|votes14=1232|seats14=0|sc14=0
|party15=[[Samata Party]]|votes15=861|seats15=0|sc15=–3
|party16=[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]|votes16=808|seats16=0|sc16=New
|party17=[[Naga National Party]]|votes17=562|seats17=0|sc17=0
|party18=[[All India Forward Bloc]]|votes18=109|seats18=0|sc18=New
|party21=Independents|votes21=288661|seats21=10|sc21=+10
|total_sc=0
|invalid=373
|electorate=1707204
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3711-manipur-2007/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2007 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>
}}
The [[Indian National Congress]] won by a [[majority|simple majority]]. A Congress-led coalition government was sworn in on 1 March 2007 with [[Okram Ibobi Singh]] as the [[Chief Minister of Manipur|Chief Minister]].

=== Punjab ===
{{main|2007 Punjab Legislative Assembly election}}
Elections in Punjab was held on 13 February 2007.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! align="center" | Rank
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
! align="center" | % Votes
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|1||align="left"|'''[[Shiromani Akali Dal]]'''||93||'''48'''||'''37.09'''
|-
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|3||align="left"|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''||23||'''19'''||'''8.28'''
|-
|2||align="left"|'''[[Indian National Congress]]'''||116||'''44'''||'''40.90'''
|-
|4||align="left"|'''[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]'''||431||'''5'''||'''6.82'''
|-
|5||align="left"|'''[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]'''||115||'''0'''||'''4.13'''
|-
| ||align="centre"|'''Total '''|| ||'''117'''||''' '''
|}

A [[Shiromani Akali Dal]]-[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] coalition government sworn on 2 March 2007 with [[Parkash Singh Badal]] as the [[Chief Ministers of Punjab (India)|Chief Minister]].

=== Uttarakhand ===
{{main|2007 Uttarakhand state assembly elections}}
Elections in Uttarakhand was held on 21 February 2007.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! align="center" | Rank
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
! align="center" | % Votes
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|1||align="left"|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''||70||'''35'''||'''31.90'''
|-
|-style="background: #90EE90;"
|4||align="left"|'''[[Uttarakhand Kranti Dal]]'''||61||'''3'''||'''5.49'''
|-style="background: #90EE90;"
|4||align="left"|'''[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]'''||240||'''3'''||'''10.81'''
|-
|2||align="left"|'''[[Indian National Congress]]'''||70||'''21'''||'''29.59'''
|-
|3||align="left"|'''[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]'''||70||'''8'''||'''11.76'''
|-
| ||align="centre"|'''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 ===
{{Main|2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! align="center" | Rank
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
! align="center" | % Votes
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
|1||align="left"|'''[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]'''||403||'''206'''||'''30.43'''
|-
|2||align="left"|'''[[Samajwadi Party]]'''||393||'''97'''||'''25.43'''
|-
|3||align="left"|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''||350||'''51'''||'''16.97'''
|-
|4||align="left"|'''[[Indian National Congress]]'''||393||'''22'''||'''8.61'''
|-
|5||align="left"|'''[[Rashtriya Lok Dal]]'''||254||'''10'''||'''3.70'''
|-
|6||align="left"|'''[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]'''|| 258||'''9'''||'''6.97'''
|-
|7||align="left"|'''[[Rashtriya Parivartan Dal]]'''||14||'''2'''||'''0.20'''
|-
|8||align="left"|'''[[Janata Dal (United)]]'''||16||'''1'''||'''0.42'''
|-
|8||align="left"|'''Uttar Pradesh United Democratic Front'''||54||'''1'''||'''0.35'''
|-
|8||align="left"|'''[[Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party]]'''||122||'''1'''||'''0.26'''
|-
|8||align="left"|'''[[Jan Morcha]]'''||118||'''1'''||'''0.60'''
|-
|8||align="left"|'''Bharatiya Jan Shakti'''||66||'''1'''||'''0.24'''
|-
|8||align="left"|''' Akhil Bhartiya Loktantrik Congress'''||2||'''1'''||'''0.18'''
|-
|-
| ||align="centre"|'''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==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons}}
*[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/ElectionStatistics.aspx Election Commission of India – State Elections, 2007]
*[http://eci.nic.in Election Commission of India]

{{Indian elections}}
{{Legislatures of India}}

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