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Elections in the Republic of India in2002 included elections to seven state legislative assemblies and the elections for the posts of President and vice-president.
| 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 |
| Party | Seats won |
|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 127 |
| Indian National Congress | 51 |
| Janata Dal (United) | 2 |
| Independents | 2 |
| Party | Seats | Previously | +/– | Vote % | Vote Share | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Conference | 28 | 57 | 28.24% | 7,49,825 | |||||||
| Indian National Congress | 20 | 7 | 24.24% | 6,43,751 | |||||||
| People's Democratic Party | 16 | - | 9.28% | 2,46,480 | |||||||
| Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party | 4 | 1 | 3.83% | 1,01,830 | |||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 0.88% | 23493 | |||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 1 | 8 | 8.57% | 2,27,633 | |||||||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 1 | 4 | 4.50% | 1,19,492 | |||||||
| Democratic Movement | 1 | 0.62% | 16,366 | ||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir Awami League | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.91% | 24,121 | ||||||
| Independents | 13 | 16.50% | 4,38,287 | ||||||||
| Total (turnout 43.70%) | 87 | 87 | - | - | |||||||
| Valid votes | 26,55,570 | 99.90 | |||||||||
| Invalid votes | 584 | 0.10 | |||||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 26,56,627 | 43.70 | |||||||||
| Abstentions | 24,94,170 | 56.30% | |||||||||
| Registered voters | 60,78,570 | ||||||||||
| Source:Election Commission of India[1] | |||||||||||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 345,660 | 26.18 | 20 | +9 | |
| Federal Party of Manipur | 239,444 | 18.14 | 13 | +7 | |
| Manipur State Congress Party | 163,758 | 12.40 | 7 | –16 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 126,044 | 9.55 | 4 | –2 | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 124,583 | 9.44 | 3 | –2 | |
| Samata Party | 109,912 | 8.33 | 3 | +2 | |
| Communist Party of India | 58,102 | 4.40 | 5 | +5 | |
| Democratic Revolutionary Peoples Party | 51,916 | 3.93 | 2 | +2 | |
| Manipur National Conference | 53,146 | 4.03 | 1 | New | |
| Manipur Peoples Party | 40,006 | 3.03 | 2 | –2 | |
| Janata Dal (United) | 2,070 | 0.16 | 0 | –1 | |
| Naga National Party | 630 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 340 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | 166 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Lok Shakti | 45 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 4,343 | 0.33 | 0 | –1 | |
| Total | 1,320,165 | 100.00 | 60 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 1,320,165 | 99.23 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 10,294 | 0.77 | |||
| Total votes | 1,330,459 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,472,919 | 90.33 | |||
| Source: ECI[2] | |||||
| Political Party | No. of Candidates | Seats won | Number of Votes | % of Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 105 | 62 | 3,682,877 | 35.81% | |
| Shiromani Akali Dal | 92 | 41 | 3,196,924 | 31.08% | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 23 | 3 | 583,214 | 5.67% | |
| Communist Party of India | 11 | 2 | 220,785 | 2.15% | |
| Independents | 274 | 9 | 1,159,552 | 11.27% | |
| Total[4] | 923 | 117 | 10,284,686 |
| 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 | – | – |
An election was held on 15 July 2002 to elect thePresident of India. On 18 July 2002, the results were declared.A. P. J. Abdul Kalam became the11th President by beating his nearest rivalLakshmi Sahgal.[7]
| 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 | ||||||||||||
An election was held on 12 August 2002 to elect the newly vacated post ofVice-President of India.Bhairon Singh Shekhawat defeatedSushil Kumar Shinde to become11th Vice President of India.[8] Incumbent VPKrishan Kant did not contest the election and died before the election occurred.
| Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | % of Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | BJP | 454 | 59.82 | |
| Sushil Kumar Shinde | INC | 305 | 40.18 | |
| Total | 759 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid Votes | 759 | 99.09 | ||
| Invalid Votes | 7 | 0.91 | ||
| Turnout | 766 | 96.96 | ||
| Abstentions | 24 | 3.04 | ||
| Electors | 790 | |||