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.

Results

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election	Government after election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
13 February 2002	Punjab	Template:Full party name with color	Parkash Singh Badal	Template:Full party name with color	Amarinder Singh
14 to 21 February 2002	Manipur		President's Rule		Template:Full party name with color	Okram Ibobi Singh
14 February 2002	Uttarakhand	Template:Full party name with color	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Template:Full party name with color	N. D. Tiwari
March 2002	Uttar Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Rajnath Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Mayawati
		Template:Party color cell		breakaway factions of INC and BSP and other small parties.			Template:Full party name with color
30 May 2002	Goa	Template:Full party name with color	Manohar Parrikar	Template:Full party name with color	Manohar Parrikar
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16 September 2002 to 8 October 2002	Jammu and Kashmir	Template:Full party name with color	Farooq Abdullah	Template:Full party name with color	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
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12 December 2002	Gujarat	Template:Full party name with color	Narendra Modi	Template:Full party name with color	Narendra Modi

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

Template:Main Template:Election table !colspan=10| |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Previously ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |+/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Vote Share |- | style="text-align:left;" |National Conference | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 28 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 57 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | Template:Decrease29 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 28.24% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 7,49,825 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 20 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | Template:Increase13 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 24.24% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 6,43,751 |- | style="text-align:left;" |People's Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | - | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | Template:Increase16 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 9.28% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 2,46,480 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | Template:Increase3 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 3.83% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1,01,830 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 2 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0.88% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 23493 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 8 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | Template:Decrease7 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 8.57% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 2,27,633 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Bahujan Samaj Party | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | Template:Decrease3 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4.50% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1,19,492 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Movement | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0.62% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16,366 |- | style="text-align:left;" |Jammu and Kashmir Awami League | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 0.91% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 24,121 |- | style="text-align:left;" | Independents | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 13 | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 16.50% | style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;" | 4,38,287 |- | style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" |Total (turnout 43.70%) ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 87 ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 87 ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| - ! style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| - |- ! colspan="9" | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Valid votes | align="right" |26,55,570 | align="right" |99.90 | colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes | align="right" |584 | align="right" |0.10 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout | align="right" |26,56,627 | align="right" |43.70 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Abstentions | align="right" | 24,94,170 | align="right" | 56.30% |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters | align="right" | 60,78,570 |colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |- |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan=12 |Source:Election Commission of India |}

Punjab

Template:Main Template:Election table |- 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" |Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||105||62||3,682,877||35.81% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Shiromani Akali Dal||92||41||3,196,924||31.08% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||23||3||583,214||5.67% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||11||2||220,785||2.15% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||274||9||1,159,552||11.27% |- | |align="left"|Total||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 EIC

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

Template:Main An election was held on 15 July 2002 to elect the President of India. On 18 July 2002, the results were declared. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam became the 11th President by beating his nearest rival Lakshmi Sahgal.

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

Template:Main An election was held on 12 August 2002 to elect the newly vacated post of Vice-President of India. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat defeated Sushil Kumar Shinde to become 11th Vice President of India. Incumbent VP Krishan Kant did not contest the election and died before the election occurred. Template:Election table |- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bhairon Singh Shekhawat||align="left"|BJP||454||59.82 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Sushil Kumar Shinde||align="left"|INC||305||40.18 |- | colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"| |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total ! style="text-align:right;"|759 ! style="text-align:right;"|100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"| |- |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||759||99.09 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||7||0.91 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||766||96.96 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||24||3.04 |- |colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"| |- |}