Elections in India

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The elections in India in 2016 include the five state legislative assembly elections.^[1] The tenure of the state legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Puducherry, Assam, expired during the year.^[2][3] More than 18,000 Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPATs) in 64 Assembly constituencies were used in these 5 elections.^[4] The dates of these elections were announced on 4 March 2016.^[5]

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Assam expired on June 5, 2016. The polls for the incumbent assembly were held in two phases on April 4 and 11 2016 to elect members of the 126 constituencies in Assam. BJP won 60 seats and became biggest party in the election.

Parties and Coalitions			Popular vote			Seats
			Vote	%	+/-	Contested	Won	+/-
	Bharatiya Janata Party	NDA	4,992,185	29.5		84	60	55
	Asom Gana Parishad		1,377,482	8.1		24	14	4
	Bodoland People's Front		666,057	3.9		16	12
	Rabha Jatiya Aikya Manch					1	0
	Tiwa Jatiya Aikya Manch					1	0
	Indian National Congress	UPA	5,238,655	30.9		122	26	52
	United People's Party Liberal					4	0
	All India United Democratic Front	G.A	2,207,945	13.0		74	13	5
	Janata Dal (United)		12,538	0.07		4	0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Left	93,508	0.55		19	0
	Communist Party of India		37,243	0.22		15	0
	Independents		1,867,531	11.04		496	1	2
	Total		16919364	100.0		126
Valid votes
Invalid votes
Votes cast / turnout
Abstentions
Registered voters

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal expired on May 29, 2016. Like in 2011, the polls for the next assembly were held in six phases. The first phase, held in Naxal-affected areas, had two polling dates — April 4 and April 11. The other phases were held on April 17, 21, 25, 30 and May 5.^[6][7]

West Bengal election results were announced along with other four assemblies on 19 May 2016. All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was reelected with an enhanced majority.^[8]

Parties and coalitions		2016 West Bengal Bidhan Sabha Election			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)	24,564,523	44.91		293	211	27
	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM)	10,802,058	19.75		148	26	14
	Indian National Congress (INC)	6,700,938	12.25		92	44	2
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	5,555,134	10.16		291	3	3
	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)	1,543,764	2.82	1.98	25	2	9
	Independents (IND)	1,184,047	2.16	0.97	371	1	1
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)	911,004	1.67	1.33	19	3	4
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	791,925	1.45	0.35	11	1	1
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI)	365,996	0.67	0.23	182	0	1
	Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GOJAM)	254,626	0.47	0.25	5	3
	Democratic Socialist Party (DSP)	167,576	0.31	0.04	2	0	1
	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	69,898	0.13	0.10	1	0
	Samajwadi Party (SP)	46,402	0.08	0.66	23	0	1
	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)	15,439	0.03	0.02	1	0
	None of the Above (NOTA)	831,848	1.52	1.52
Total		54,697,791	100.0		2255	294	±0
Valid votes		54,697,791	99.92
Invalid votes		44,622	0.08
Votes cast / turnout		54,742,413	83.02
Abstentions		11,196,593	16.98
Registered voters		65,939,006

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala expired on May 31, 2016. The polls for the next assembly were held on 16 May 2016. The Left Democratic Front won a clear victory with 91 in 140 seats.^[9]

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry expired on June 2, 2016. The polls for the next assembly were held on 16 May 2016 to elect members of the 30 constituencies in the non-contiguous territory. INC won 15 out of 30 seats.

Parties and Coalitions		Votes	Vote %	Vote swing	Contested	Won	Change
	Indian National Congress	2,44,886	30.60	5.54	21	15	8
	All India N.R. Congress	2,25,082	28.1	3.65	30	8	7
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	134,597	16.8	3.05	30	4	1
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	70,836	8.9	1.78	9	2
	Bharatiya Janata Party	19,303	2.4	1.08	30	0
	Independents	62,884	7.9	–		1
	None of the above	13,240	1.7	–	–	–	–
Total		8,00,343				30
Valid votes		8,00,343	99.86
Invalid votes		1,099	0.14
Votes cast / turnout		8,01,442	85.08
Abstentions		1,43,490	14.92
Registered voters		9,41,935
Source: International Business Times

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu expired on May 22, 2016. The polls for the next assembly were held on 16 May 2016 for the 234 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.^[10] In the previous election in 2011, the AIADMK, under the leadership of Jayalalithaa, won a majority and formed the government.^[11] The results declared on 19 May 2016 and AIADMK was able to retain power with a comfortable majority of 133 seats out of 231.

Summary of the 2016 Tamil Nadu legislative election^[12]

Party/Alliance				Votes	%	Seats
						Contested	Won	+/-
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)			17,806,490	40.88%	234	136	14
	DPA		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)	13,670,511	31.39%	178	89	66
			Indian National Congress	2,774,075	6.47%	41	8	3
			Indian Union Muslim League	313,808	0.73%	5	1	1
			Puthiya Tamilagam	219,830	0.51%	4	0	2
			Manithaneya Makkal Katchi	197,150	0.46%	4	0	2
		Total		17,175,374	39.85	234	98	66
	People's Welfare Front (PWF)		Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	1,037,431	2.41%	105	0	29
			Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	373,713	0.87%	28	0
			Communist Party of India	340,290	0.79%	25	0	9
			Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	331,849	0.77%	25	0
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	307,303	0.72%	25	0	10
			Tamil Maanila Congress	230,711	0.54%	26	0
		Total		2,621,297	6.1	234	0	48
	Pattali Makkal Katchi			2,302,564	5.36%	234	0	3
	Bharatiya Janata Party			1,235,660	2.86%	234	0
	Naam Tamilar Katchi			460,089	1.07%	234	0
	All India Forward Bloc			44,546	0.10%	33	0	1
	Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi			167,560	0.39%	72	0
	Bahujan Samaj Party			97,823	0.23%	n/a	0
	Social Democratic Party of India			65,978	0.15%	n/a	0
	Independents			617,907	1.44%	234	0
	None of the above			5,65,077	1.31%	234	–	–
Total				4,35,56,184	100.00	-	234	-
Valid votes				4,35,56,184	99.93
Invalid votes				29,507	0.07
Votes cast / turnout				4,35,85,691	74.81
Abstentions				1,46,74,574	25.19
Registered voters				5,82,60,506

Election to two assembly constituencies were cancelled by the Election Commission on confirmed reports of bribing voters in Aravakurichi and Thanjavur. Elections were held later there on 26 October 2016 ^[13][14]

• Election Commission of India
• West Bengal Election Opinion Poll
• Kerala Election Opinion Poll
• Tamil Nadu Election Opinion Poll
• Assam Election Opinion Poll
• Puducherry Election Opinion Poll
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