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The State Assembly elections in India, 2007 took place between 8 February 2007 and 23 February 2007 for Indian States of [Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, 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[edit | edit source]

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before election		Chief Minister after election
30 January 2007	Punjab	Indian National Congress	Amarinder Singh	Shiromani Akali Dal	Parkash Singh Badal
30 January 2007	Punjab	Bharatiya Janata Party	Amarinder Singh		Parkash Singh Badal
28 January 2012	Manipur	Indian National Congress	Okram Ibobi Singh	Indian National Congress	Okram Ibobi Singh
21 February 2007	Uttarakhand	Indian National Congress	N. D. Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party	B. C. Khanduri
21 February 2007	Uttarakhand	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal	N. D. Tiwari		B. C. Khanduri
7 April 2007 – 8 May 2007	Uttar Pradesh	Samajwadi Party	Mulayam Singh Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party	Mayawati
2 June 2007	Goa	Indian National Congress	Pratapsingh Rane	Indian National Congress	Digambar Kamat
		Nationalist Congress Party
		Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
14 November and 19 December 2007	Himachal Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Virbhadra Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	Prem Kumar Dhumal
11 and 16 December 2007	Gujarat	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi

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[edit | edit source]

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won
1	Indian National Congress	32	16
3	Nationalist Congress Party	6	3
4	Save Goa Front	17	2
2	Bharatiya Janata Party	33	14
4	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak	26	2
5	United Goans Democratic Party	11	1
4	Independent	49	2
	Total		40

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

Gujarat[edit | edit source]

Ranks	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	182	117	49.12
2	Indian National Congress	173	59	38.00
3	Nationalist Congress Party	10	3	1.05
4	Independent	182	2	6.61
5	Janata Dal (United)	35	1	0.66
6	Bahujan Samaj Party	166	0	2.62
	Total		182

Himachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	% votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	68	41	43.78
2	Indian National Congress	67	23	38.9
3	Independent	60	3	7.97
4	Bahujan Samaj Party	67	1	7.26
	Total		68

Jammu and Kashmir[edit | edit source]


Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
1	Poonch Haveli	68.51%	Jahangir Hussain Mir		INC	20,697	31.14%	Yash Paul Sharma		Independent	16,299	24.52%	4,398

Manipur[edit | edit source]

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


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	507,518	34.30	30	+10
	Manipur Peoples Party	228,670	15.45	5	+3
	Nationalist Congress Party	127,005	8.58	5	+2
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	98,694	6.67	3	New
	Communist Party of India	85,643	5.79	4	–1
	National People's Party	51,192	3.46	3	New
	Manipur State Congress Party	27,505	1.86	0	–7
	Lok Jan Shakti Party	22,233	1.50	0	–2
	Samajwadi Party	13,373	0.90	0	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	12,536	0.85	0	-4
	Janata Dal (Secular)	7,144	0.48	0	New
	Janata Dal (United)	4,333	0.29	0	0
	People's Democratic Alliance	1,508	0.10	0	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1,232	0.08	0	0
	Samata Party	861	0.06	0	–3
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	808	0.05	0	New
	Naga National Party	562	0.04	0	0
	All India Forward Bloc	109	0.01	0	New
	Independents	288,661	19.51	10	+10
Total		1,479,587	100.00	60	0

Valid votes		1,479,587	99.97
Invalid/blank votes		373	0.03
Total votes		1,479,960	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,707,204	86.69
Source: ECI^[2]

The Indian National Congress won by a simple majority. A Congress-led coalition government was sworn in on 1 March 2007 with Okram Ibobi Singh as the Chief Minister.

Punjab[edit | edit source]

Elections in Punjab was held on 13 February 2007.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes
1	Shiromani Akali Dal	93	48	37.09
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	23	19	8.28
2	Indian National Congress	116	44	40.90
4	Independent	431	5	6.82
5	Bahujan Samaj Party	115	0	4.13
	Total		117

A Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government sworn on 2 March 2007 with Parkash Singh Badal as the Chief Minister.

Uttarakhand[edit | edit source]

Elections in Uttarakhand was held on 21 February 2007.

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	70	35	31.90
4	Uttarakhand Kranti Dal	61	3	5.49
4	Independent	240	3	10.81
2	Indian National Congress	70	21	29.59
3	Bahujan Samaj Party	70	8	11.76
	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[edit | edit source]

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes
1	Bahujan Samaj Party	403	206	30.43
2	Samajwadi Party	393	97	25.43
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	350	51	16.97
4	Indian National Congress	393	22	8.61
5	Rashtriya Lok Dal	254	10	3.70
6	Independent	258	9	6.97
7	Rashtriya Parivartan Dal	14	2	0.20
8	Janata Dal (United)	16	1	0.42
8	Uttar Pradesh United Democratic Front	54	1	0.35
8	Rashtriya Swabhimaan Party	122	1	0.26
8	Jan Morcha	118	1	0.60
8	Bharatiya Jan Shakti	66	1	0.24
8	Akhil Bhartiya Loktantrik Congress	2	1	0.18
	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.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Bye – Election – December, 2007". eci.gov.in. Election Commission Of India. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2007 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

External links[edit | edit source]

[1] "Bye – Election – December, 2007". eci.gov.in. Election Commission Of India. Retrieved 1 January 2025.

[2] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2007 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 January 2022.

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+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.
-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 [[Goa]], Himachal Pradesh, [[Manipur]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], Uttarakhand and [[Uttar Pradesh]]. Elections for [[Gujarat]] were held in December 2007.
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+| 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]]
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+| 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]]
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+|-
+| {{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]]
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+| {{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]]
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 Counting of votes was done on 27 February 2007 and the results were announced on the same date.
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 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]].
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