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Legislative Assembly elections took place in April and May 2011 to elect legislatures in the Indian states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.^[1]

Legislative Assembly elections

State/Union Territory	Date
Kerala	13 April
Tamil Nadu	13 April
Assam	4 and 11 April
Puducherry	13 April
West Bengal	18, 23, 27 April, 3, 7 and 10 May
Counting	13 May

Assam

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	Indian National Congress	126	78	39.35	39.35
3	Bodoland People's Front	29	12	6.13	25.17
2	All India United Democratic Front	77	18	12.56	20.05
4	Asom Gana Parishad	104	10	16.33	19.75
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	120	5	11.45	12.05
6	Independents		2	9.26
7	All India Trinamool Congress	99	1	1.98	2.49
	Total		126

Kerala

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
2	Indian National Congress	81	38	26.32	45.16
3	Indian Union Muslim League	23	20	7.9	50.81
5	Kerala Congress (M)	15	9	4.92	47.05
7	SUCI (C)	21	2	1.68	11.31
8	Kerala Congress (B)	2	1	0.71	46.99
8	IDK	2	1	0.69	45.77
8	APM	1	1	0.37	51.16
1	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	85	45	28.1	45.73
4	Communist Party of India	27	13	8.69	44.8
6	Janata Dal (Secular)	5	4	1.51	43.22
7	Revolutionary Socialist Party	4	2	1.3	46.39
7	Nationalist Congress Party	4	2	1.24	43.83
7	IND(LDF)	2	2	0.71	45.47
	Total		140

Puducherry

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	All India NR Congress	17	15	31.75	55.47
3	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	10	5	13.75	41.02
2	Indian National Congress	16	7	25.06	46.14
4	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	10	2	10.68	33.28
5	Independent		1	9.49
	Total		30

Tamil Nadu

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	165	150	38.42	53.96
2	Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam	41	29	7.88	44.84
4	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	12	10	2.41	50.29
5	Communist Party of India	10	9	1.98	48.64
8	MMK	3	2	0.52	8.09
8	PT	2	2	0.4	54.3
9	All India Forward Bloc	1	1	0.24	51.22
3	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	124	23	22.4	42.12
6	Indian National Congress	63	5	9.3	35.68
7	Pattali Makkal Katchi	30	3	5.23	39.64
	Total		234

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West Bengal

Rank	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	% Votes	% Votes in Seats Contested
1	All India Trinamool Congress	226	184	42.64	56.4
2	Indian National Congress	66	42	10.00	42.31
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	213	40	33.2	45.8
4	All India Forward Bloc	34	11	5.26	47.86
5	Revolutionary Socialist Party	23	7	3.25	39.64
6	GJM	3	3	0.79	79.46
7	Communist Party of India	14	2	2.02	38.55
7	Independents		2	3.65
8	SUCI(C)	29	1	0.47	4.51
8	Samajwadi Party	5	1	0.82	43.56
8	Democratic Secular Party	2	1	0.39	44.69
	Total		294

Parliamentary By-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	State	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
38	8 May 2011	Kadapa	Andhra Pradesh	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		Indian National Congress	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		YSR Congress Party
10		Bastar	Chhattisgarh	Baliram Kashyap		Bharatiya Janata Party	Dinesh Kashyap		Bharatiya Janata Party
9	26 September 2011	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	Arjun Munda		Bharatiya Janata Party	Ajoy Kumar		Jharkhand Vikas Morcha
4	13 October 2011	Hisar	Haryana	Bhajan Lal Bishnoi		Haryana Janhit Congress	Kuldeep Bishnoi		Haryana Janhit Congress
23	30 November 2011	Kolkata Dakshin	West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee		All India Trinamool Congress	Subrata Bakshi		All India Trinamool Congress

By elections

Andhra Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
248	8 May 2011	Pulivendla	Y. S. Vijayamma		Indian National Congress	Y. S. Vijayamma		YSR Congress Party

Arunachal Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
3	30 May 2011	Mukto	Dorjee Khandu		Indian National Congress	Pema Khandu		Indian National Congress

Bihar

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
62	25 June 2011	Purnia	Raj Kishore Kesri		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kiran Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party

Chhattisgarh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
59	14 February 2011	Sanjari Balod	Madanlal Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kumari Bai Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party

Gujarat

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
75	14 February 2011	Khadia	Ashok Bhatt		Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhushan Bhatt		Bharatiya Janata Party

Jharkhand

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
57	10 February 2011	Kharsawan	Mangal Singh Soy		Bharatiya Janata Party	Arjun Munda		Bharatiya Janata Party

Karnataka

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
103	9 April 2011	Jagalur	S. V. Ramachandra		Indian National Congress	S. V. Ramachandra		Bharatiya Janata Party
147		Bangarapet	M Narayanaswamy		Indian National Congress	M Narayanaswamy		Bharatiya Janata Party
185		Channapatna	M.C. Ashwath		Janata Dal (Secular)	C. P. Yogeshwara		Bharatiya Janata Party

Madhya Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
170	14 February 2011	Sonkatch	Sajjan Singh Verma		Indian National Congress	Rajendra Pholchand Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
198		Kukshi	Jamuna Devi		Indian National Congress	Mukam Singh Kirade		Bharatiya Janata Party
56	25 June 2011	Jabera	Ratnesh Soloman		Indian National Congress	Dashrath Singh Lodhi		Bharatiya Janata Party

Nagaland

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
26	7 May 2011	Pipraich	Nungshizenba		Indian National Congress	Toshipokba		Naga People's Front

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
168	8 May 2011	Pipraich	Jamuna Nishad		Bahujan Samaj Party	Rajmati Nishad		Samajwadi Party

See also

• S.Y. Quraishi

References

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