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Elections in the Republic of India in 2000 included elections to four state legislative assemblies.

Overall result[edit | edit source]

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before election		Chief Minister after election
12 to 22 February 2000	Bihar	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Rabri Devi	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Rabri Devi
22 February 2000	Haryana	Indian National Lok Dal	Om Prakash Chautala	Indian National Lok Dal	Om Prakash Chautala
12 and 22 February 2000	Manipur	Manipur State Congress Party	Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh	Manipur State Congress Party	Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh
17 and 22 February 2000	Odisha	Indian National Congress	Hemananda Biswal	Biju Janata Dal	Naveen Patnaik

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Bihar[edit | edit source]

The Bihar legislative assembly election, 2000 was held on year 2000 for Bihar Legislative Assembly. Rashtriya Janata Dal won 103 seats in election and form the government.

Party	Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	67
Bahujan Samaj Party	05
Communist Party of India	05
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	02
Indian National Congress	23
Janata Dal (United)	21
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation	06
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	12
Rashtriya Janata Dal	124
Samata Party	34
United Goans Democratic Party	02
Kosal Party	02
Marxist Co-ordination Committee	01
Independent	20
Total	324

Haryana[edit | edit source]

The Haryana legislative assembly election, 2000 was held on 22 February 2000, to select the 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly.

SN	Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	No. of votes %
1	Indian National Lok Dal	62	47	29.61
2	Indian National Congress	90	21	31.22
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	29	6	8.94
4	Bahujan Samaj Party	83	1	5.74
5	Nationalist Congress Party	24	1	0.51
6	Vishal Haryana Party	82	2	5.55
7	Republican Party of India	5	1	0.62
8	Independents	519	11	16.90
	Total:		90

Manipur[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Manipur State Congress Party	331,141	26.28	23	New
	Indian National Congress	230,748	18.31	11	–11
	Bharatiya Janata Party	142,174	11.28	6	+5
	Federal Party of Manipur	118,916	9.44	6	+4
	Manipur Peoples Party	99,487	7.90	4	–14
	Nationalist Congress Party	99,128	7.87	5	New
	Samata Party	84,215	6.68	1	–2
	Communist Party of India	45,309	3.60	0	–2
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	23,037	1.83	1	New
	Janata Dal (United)	22,576	1.79	1	New
	Janata Dal (Secular)	19,945	1.58	1	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3,783	0.30	0	0
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	1,050	0.08	0	New
	Kuki National Assembly	690	0.05	0	0
	National People's Party	17	0.00	0	–2
	Independents	37,875	3.01	1	–2
Total		1,260,091	100.00	60	0

Valid votes		1,260,091	99.07
Invalid/blank votes		11,849	0.93
Total votes		1,271,940	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,415,933	89.83
Source: ECI^[1]

Odisha[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Indian National Congress	4,770,654	33.77	26	–54
	Biju Janata Dal	4,151,895	29.39	68	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	2,570,074	18.19	38	+29
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	301,729	2.14	3	–1
	Communist Party of India	172,398	1.22	1	0
	Janata Dal (Secular)	118,978	0.84	1	New
	All India Trinamool Congress	110,056	0.78	1	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	109,256	0.77	1	+1
	Others	314,186	2.22	0	0
	Independents	1,506,216	10.66	8	+2
Total		14,125,442	100.00	147	0

Valid votes		14,125,442	98.82
Invalid/blank votes		169,311	1.18
Total votes		14,294,753	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		24,188,320	59.10
Source: ECI^[2]

Legislative By-elections[edit | edit source]

Himachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

2000 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election : Solan^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican Janata Party	Dr. Rajeev Bindal	15,042	40.00%	*New*
	INC	Major Krishna Mohini	11,505	30.59%	2.97
	Independent	Netar Singh	11,059	29.41%	New
Margin of victory			3,537	9.41%	9.33
Turnout			37,606	60.92%	4.59
Registered electors			62,057		11.20
	Republican Janata Party gain from INC		Swing

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
↑ "Assembly Constituency - 14 Solan". Archived from the original on 26 June 2002.

[1] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

[2] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

[3] "Assembly Constituency - 14 Solan". Archived from the original on 26 June 2002.

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+{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
+{{Infobox election
+| election_name     = Elections in India
+| country           = India
+| previous_election = 1999 elections in India
+| previous_year     = 1999
+| election_date     = 2000
+| next_election     = 2001 elections in India
+| next_year         = 2001
+}}
+{{Politics of India}}
-==Haryana==
+'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''2000'' included elections to four state legislative assemblies.
+==Overall result==
+{| 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
+|-
+|12 to 22 February 2000
+| [[2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|Bihar]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Rashtriya Janata Dal}}
+|[[Rabri Devi]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Rashtriya Janata Dal}}
+|[[Rabri Devi]]
+|[[File:IN-BR.svg|50px]]
+|-
+|22 February 2000
+|[[2000 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|Haryana]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Lok Dal}}
+|[[Om Prakash Chautala]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Lok Dal}}
+|[[Om Prakash Chautala]]
+|[[File:IN-HR.svg|50px]]
+|-
+|12 and 22 February 2000
+|[[2000 Manipur Legislative Assembly election|Manipur]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Manipur State Congress Party}}
+|[[Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Manipur State Congress Party}}
+| [[Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh]]
+|[[File:IN-MN.svg|50px]]
+|-
+|17 and 22 February 2000
+|[[2000 Odisha Legislative Assembly election|Odisha]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
+| [[Hemananda Biswal]]
+| {{Full party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}
+|[[Naveen Patnaik]]
+| [[File:IN-OD.svg|50px]]
+|}
+==Legislative Assembly elections==
+===Bihar===
+{{Main|2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election}}
+The '''Bihar legislative assembly election, 2000''' was held on year 2000 for [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]. [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] won 103 seats in election and form the government.
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+|-
+! Party
+! Seats
+|-
+|[[ Bharatiya Janata Party]]
+| 67
+|-
+|[[ Bahujan Samaj Party]]
+| 05
+|-
+|[[ Communist Party of India]]
+| 05
+|-
+|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
+| 02
+|-
+|[[Indian National Congress]]
+| 23
+|-
+| [[Janata Dal (United)]]
+| 21
+|-
+| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation]]
+| 06
+|-
+| [[Jharkhand Mukti Morcha]]
+| 12
+|-
+| [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
+| 124
+|-
+| [[Samata Party]]
+| 34
+|-
+| [[United Goans Democratic Party]]
+| 02
+|-
+| [[Kosal Party]]
+| 02
+|-
+| [[Marxist Co-ordination Committee]]
+| 01
+|-
+| Independent
+| 20
+|-
+| '''Total'''
+| '''324'''
+|}
+===Haryana===
 {{Main|2000 Haryana Legislative Assembly election}}
 The '''Haryana legislative assembly election, 2000''' was held on 22 February 2000, to select the 90 members of the [[Haryana Legislative Assembly]].
+{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" width=60%
+|-
+!SN
+!Party
+!No. of candidates
+!No. of elected
+!No. of votes %
+|-
+|- style="background: #90EE90;"
+| 1
+| [[Indian National Lok Dal]]
+| 62
+| 47
+| 29.61
+|-
+| 2
+| [[Indian National Congress]]
+| 90
+| 21
+| 31.22
+|-
+|- style="background: #90EE90;"
+| 3
+| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
+| 29
+| 6
+| 8.94
+|-
+| 4
+| [[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
+| 83
+| 1
+| 5.74
+|-style=
+| 5
+| [[Nationalist Congress Party]]
+| 24
+| 1
+| 0.51
+|-
+| 6
+| [[Vishal Haryana Party]]
+| 82
+| 2
+| 5.55
+|-
+| 7
+| [[Republican Party of India]]
+| 5
+| 1
+| 0.62
+|-
+| 8
+| [[Independent (politician)|Independents]]
+| 519
+| 11
+| 16.90
+|-
+|
+| '''Total:'''
+| ''' '''
+| '''90'''
+| ''' '''
+|}
-==Bihar==
+===Manipur===
-{{Main|2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election}}
+{{Main|2000 Manipur Legislative Assembly election}}
-The '''Bihar legislative assembly election, 2000''' was held on year 2000 for [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]. [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] won 103 seats in election and form the government
+{{Election results
+|image=
+|party1=[[Manipur State Congress Party]]|votes1=331141|seats1=23|sc1=New
+|party2=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes2=230748|seats2=11|sc2=–11
+|party3=[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]|votes3=142174|seats3=6|sc3=+5
+|party4=[[Federal Party of Manipur]]|votes4=118916|seats4=6|sc4=+4
+|party5=[[Manipur Peoples Party]]|votes5=99487|seats5=4|sc5=–14
+|party6=[[Nationalist Congress Party]]|votes6=99128|seats6=5|sc6=New
+|party7=[[Samata Party]]|votes7=84215|seats7=1|sc7=–2
+|party8=[[Communist Party of India]]|votes8=45309|seats8=0|sc8=–2
+|party9=[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]|votes9=23037|seats9=1|sc9=New
+|party10=[[Janata Dal (United)]]|votes10=22576|seats10=1|sc10=New
+|party11=[[Janata Dal (Secular)]]|votes11=19945|seats11=1|sc11=New
+|party12=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]|votes12=3783|seats12=0|sc12=0
+|party13=[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]|votes13=1050|seats13=0|sc13=New
+|party14=[[Kuki National Assembly]]|votes14=690|seats14=0|sc14=0
+|party15=[[National People's Party (India)|National People's Party]]|votes15=17|seats15=0|sc15=–2
+|party21=Independents|votes21=37875|seats21=1|sc21=–2
+|total_sc=0
+|invalid=11849
+|electorate=1415933
+|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3709-manipur-2000/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref>
+}}
+===Odisha===
+{{Main|2000 Odisha Legislative Assembly election}}
+{{Election results
+|image=[[File:India Odisha Legislative Assembly 2000.svg]]
+|party1=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes1=4770654|seats1=26|sc1=–54
+|party2=[[Biju Janata Dal]]|votes2=4151895|seats2=68|sc2=New
+|party3=[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]|votes3=2570074|seats3=38|sc3=+29
+|party4=[[Jharkhand Mukti Morcha]]|votes4=301729|seats4=3|sc4=–1
+|party5=[[Communist Party of India]]|votes5=172398|seats5=1|sc5=0
+|party6=[[Janata Dal (Secular)]]|votes6=118978|seats6=1|sc6=New
+|party7=[[All India Trinamool Congress]]|votes7=110056|seats7=1|sc7=New
+|party8=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]|votes8=109256|seats8=1|sc8=+1
+|party20=Others|votes20=314186|seats20=0|sc20=0
+|party21=Independents|votes21=1506216|seats21=8|sc21=+2
+|total_sc=0
+|invalid=169311
+|electorate=24188320
+|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eci.gov.in/files/file/3628-orissa-2000/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=6 February 2022}}</ref>
+}}
+== Legislative By-elections==
+===Himachal Pradesh===
+{{Election box begin|title=	[[2000 elections in India#Himachal Pradesh|2000 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly by-election]] : Solan<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eci.gov.in/ByeElection/ByeFeb2000/bye_HP_AC14.htm|title=Assembly  Constituency - 14 Solan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020626131223/http://www.eci.gov.in:80/byeelection/ByeFeb2000/bye_HP_AC14.htm|archive-date=26 June 2002}}</ref>}}
+{{Election box winning candidate with party link|	|candidate=Dr. Rajeev Bindal	|party=Republican Janata Party	|votes=15,042	|percentage=40.00%	|change= ''New''}}
+{{Election box candidate with party link|	|candidate=Major Krishna Mohini	|party=Indian National Congress	|votes=11,505	|percentage=30.59%	|change={{decrease}}2.97 }}
+{{Election box candidate with party link|	|candidate=Netar Singh	|party=Independent politician	|votes=11,059	|percentage=29.41%	|change= ''New''}}
+{{Election box margin of victory	|votes=3,537	|percentage=9.41%	|change=	{{increase}}9.33	}}
+{{Election box turnout	|votes=37,606	|percentage=60.92%	|change=	{{decrease}}4.59	}}
+{{Election box registered electors	|reg. electors = 62,057	|ref =	|change=	{{increase}}11.20	}}
+{{Election box gain with party link	|winner=Republican Janata Party	|loser=Indian National Congress	|swing=	 	}}
+{{Election box end}}
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
 {{Indian elections}}
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+[[Category:2000 elections in India]]
+[[Category:2000 elections in Asia|India]]
+[[Category:2000 in India]]
+[[Category:Elections in India by year]]