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2002 elections in India

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{{Infobox election

| election_name = Elections in India

| country = India

| previous_election = 2001 elections in India

| previous_year = 2001

| election_date = 2002

| next_election = 2003 elections in India

| next_year = 2003

}}

{{Politics of India}}

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

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

13 February 2002

| Punjab

| {{Full party name with color|Shiromani Akali Dal}}

| Parkash Singh Badal

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|Amarinder Singh

| 50px

14 to 21 February 2002

|Manipur

| bgcolor="#000000" |

| colspan="2" align="center" |President's Rule

|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

|Okram Ibobi Singh

|50px

14 February 2002

| Uttarakhand

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Bhagat Singh Koshyari

| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

| N. D. Tiwari

| 50px

rowspan="2"| March 2002

|rowspan="2"|Uttar Pradesh

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|rowspan="2"|Rajnath Singh

| {{Full party name with color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}

|rowspan="2"|Mayawati

|rowspan="2"|50px

{{party color cell|Others}}

| breakaway factions of INC and BSP and other small parties.

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

rowspan="2"| 30 May 2002

|rowspan="2"|Goa

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|rowspan="2"|Manohar Parrikar

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|rowspan="2"|Manohar Parrikar

|rowspan="2"|50px

{{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}

| {{Full party name with color|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party}}

rowspan="2" | 16 September 2002 to 8 October 2002

| rowspan="2" |Jammu and Kashmir

| {{Full party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir National Conference|rowspan=2}}

| rowspan="2" |Farooq Abdullah

| {{Full party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party}}

| rowspan="2" |Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

| rowspan="2" |50px

{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
12 December 2002

| Gujarat

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Narendra Modi

| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| Narendra Modi

|50px

Legislative Assembly elections

=Goa=

{{Main|2002 Goa Legislative Assembly election}}

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"|Bharatiya Janata Party3917
2align="left"|Indian National Congress4016
style="background:
style="background: #90EE90;"

|4

align="left"|United Goans Democratic Party103
style="background: #90EE90;"

|3

align="left"|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak252
"background: #90EE90;"

|5

align="left"|Nationalist Congress Party201
style="background:

|6

align="left"|Independent481
align="centre"|Total 40

=Gujarat=

{{Main|2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election}}

class="wikitable sortable"
PartySeats won
Bharatiya Janata Party127
Indian National Congress51
Janata Dal (United)2
Independents2

=Jammu & Kashmir=

{{Main|2002 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election}}

{{election table|title=Summary of the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly election results}}

!colspan=10|File:India Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly 2002.svg

|-

! 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;" | {{decrease}}29

| 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;" | {{increase}}13

| 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;" | {{increase}}16

| 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;" | {{increase}}3

| 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;" | {{decrease}}7

| 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;" | {{decrease}}3

| 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{{Cite web|title=Jammu & Kashmir 2014|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3797-jammu-kashmir-2014/|access-date=2021-09-12|website=Election Commission of India|language=en-IN}}

|}

=Manipur=

{{Main|2002 Manipur Legislative Assembly election}}

{{Election results

|image=

|party1=Indian National Congress|votes1=345660|seats1=20|sc1=+9

|party2=Federal Party of Manipur|votes2=239444|seats2=13|sc2=+7

|party3=Manipur State Congress Party|votes3=163758|seats3=7|sc3=–16

|party4=Bharatiya Janata Party|votes4=126044|seats4=4|sc4=–2

|party5=Nationalist Congress Party|votes5=124583|seats5=3|sc5=–2

|party6=Samata Party|votes6=109912|seats6=3|sc6=+2

|party7=Communist Party of India|votes7=58102|seats7=5|sc7=+5

|party8=Democratic Revolutionary Peoples Party|votes8=51916|seats8=2|sc8=+2

|party9=Manipur National Conference|votes9=53146|seats9=1|sc9=New

|party10=Manipur Peoples Party|votes10=40006|seats10=2|sc10=–2

|party11=Janata Dal (United)|votes11=2070|seats11=0|sc11=–1

|party12=Naga National Party|votes12=630|seats12=0|sc12=New

|party13=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|votes13=340|seats13=0|sc13=0

|party14=Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)|votes14=166|seats14=0|sc14=New

|party15=Lok Shakti|votes15=45|seats15=0|sc15=New

|party16=Independents|votes16=4343|seats16=0|sc16=–1

|total_sc=0

|invalid=10294

|electorate=1472919

|source=ECI{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3709-manipur-2002/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2002 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=1 January 2022}}

}}

=Punjab=

{{Main|2002 Punjab Legislative Assembly election}}

{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 2002{{cite web|url=https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2002/Stat_rep_2002_PB.pdf |title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2002 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB}} Election Commission of India|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" |Seats won

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes

|-

| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

|align="left"|Indian National Congress||105||62||3,682,877||35.81%

|-

| {{party color cell|Shiromani Akali Dal}}

|align="left"|Shiromani Akali Dal||92||41||3,196,924||31.08%

|-

| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||23||3||583,214||5.67%

|-

| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||11||2||220,785||2.15%

|-

| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}

|align="left"|Independents||274||9||1,159,552||11.27%

|-

|

|align="left"|TotalThe total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.||923||117|| 10,284,686||

|-

|}

=Uttar Pradesh=

{{Main|2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:right

!Party Name

!Seats

align=left|Samajwadi Party

|143

align=left|Bahujan Samaj Party

|98

align=left|Indian National Congress

|25

align=left|Bharatiya Janata Party

|88

align=left|Communist Party of India (Marxist)

|2

align=left|Janata Dal (United)

|2

align=left|Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha

|1

align=left|Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress

|2

align=left|Apna Dal

|3

align=left|National Loktantrik Party

|1

align=left|Rashtriya Lok Dal

|14

align=left|Rashtriya Parivartan Dal

|1

align=left|Rashtriya Kranti Party

|4

align=left|Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)

|1

align=left|Independents

|16

class=sortbottom

|align=left|Total

|403

class=sortbottom

|colspan=2 align=left|Elections.in{{Cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/2002-election-results.html|title=Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election Results in 2002|website=elections.in|access-date=2017-03-14}} EIC{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2002/Stat_rep_UP_2002.pdf | title=Election Commission of India : Statistical Report on General Election, 2002 to The Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh | website=eci.nic.in}}

=Uttarakhand=

{{Main|2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"

! align="center" | Rank

! align="center" | Party

! align="center" | Seats Contested

! align="center" | Seats Won

! align="center" | % Votes

! align="center" | % Votes in
Seats Contested

! align="center" | Leader in the House

style="background: #90EE90;"

|1

align="left"|Indian National Congress (INC)703626.91%26.91%Narayan Datt Tiwari
2align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)691925.45%25.81%Matbar Singh Kandari
3align="left"|Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)680710.93%11.20%Narayan Pal
4align="left"|Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)62045.49%6.36%Kashi Singh Airy
5align="left"|Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)26011.50%4.02%Balvir Singh Negi
6align="left"|Independents–0316.30%16.63%N/A
align="centre"|Total–70––

Presidential election

{{Main|2002 Indian presidential election}}

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.{{cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/%0D%0Anews/2002/jul/18prez2.htm |title=A P J Abdul Kalam elected 11th President of India |website=Rediff.com |date=July 18, 2002 |access-date=May 28, 2016 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100014/http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jul/18prez2.htm |url-status=dead }}

class="wikitable" border="1"
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

align=left colspan=13|Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022508/http://164.100.47.5/presidentelection/PRESDENT2002w.htm Election Commission of India]

Vice-Presidential election

{{Main|2002 Indian vice presidential election}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/President_VP_Elec2012/Vice%20Presidentail%20Election%20Background.pdf |title=BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA |access-date=2016-05-25 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305153944/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/President_VP_Elec2012/Vice%20Presidentail%20Election%20Background.pdf |url-status=dead }} Incumbent VP Krishan Kant did not contest the election and died before the election occurred.

{{election table|title=Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 2002{{cite news |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020813/main4.htm |title=Shekhawat is Vice-President, 22 MPs didn’t cast vote |newspaper=The Tribune |date=August 12, 2002 |access-date=May 25, 2016}}|sortable=yes}}

|- align=center

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes

!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes

|-

| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|align="left"|Bhairon Singh Shekhawat||align="left"|BJP||454||59.82

|-

| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}

|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

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|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|

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