Assembly Polls 2011
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MK Stalin's Shock Defeat Puts Nail In DMK's Coffin. But Who Beat Him?
The Kolathur seat was created after delimitation before the 2011 election and Stalin - then the Deputy Chief Minister - edged the AIADMK's Saidai Duraisamy in the state poll that year by 2,734 votes.
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Opinion | 5 Districts Made Mamata In 2011. Will They Unmake Her This Time?
In 2011, the TMC alliance swept 82 out of the 108 seats here, signalling the end of the Left regime. Analysts called it a fluke, saying the Left would come back. That was not to be.
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Puducherry Set To Go To Polls Tomorrow With High-Profile Face-Off In 2 Seats
Political disputes have intensified throughout the Union Territory, but the elections in Thattanchavady and Lawspet are gaining attention.
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Mamata Banerjee Faces Fight, Left Keeps Kerala, BJP Wins Assam: Exit Polls
Mamata Banerjee has an edge in Bengal and her Trinamool Congress could win 152 of the state's 294 seats with the BJP not far behind at 130 seats, says NDTV's poll of exit polls on state elections that were held alongside a steep rise in Covid cases a
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Tamil Nadu Poll: O Panneerselvam Attempts Hat-Trick From His Constituency
Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam, who has been representing the Bodinayakkanur constituency since 2011, is attempting a hat-trick from here in the April 6 assembly election.
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'Metro Man' E Sreedharan To Join BJP, Says Open To Fighting Kerala Polls
E Sreedharan, the legendary "Metro Man" of India, is set to join the BJP months ahead of polls in Kerala.
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As Karnataka Votes, Confident Yeddyurappa Announces "Date" For Swearing-In
As Karnataka began voting today in an election that many predict will be a close fight, BS Yeddyurappa, the presumptive chief minister of the BJP, expressed confidence that he would form the new government on May 17 after an emphatic victory. Mr Yeddyurappa is the BJP candidate from Shikaripura.
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Record 77 Per Cent Polling In Chennai's RK Nagar, Highest Since 2011
A record 77 per cent voting was recorded in Chennai's RK Nagar, the seat which had been left vacant by the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year. Election officials the figure is the highest since 2011. During the 2016 assembly elections, around 67.6 per cent polling was recorded. The counting of votes will ...
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UP Election 2017: Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee Unlikely To Cast His Vote
As with the 2007 and 2011 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, voter number 141 of Lucknow Central constituency is unlikely to vote in the third phase of the 2017 election, scheduled for Sunday.
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Mulayam Yadav To Address First Rally Ahead Of UP Polls On November 23
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav will address his first rally in the run-up to the 2011 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election at Azamgarh on November 23.
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MK Stalin Denies Allegation Made Against Him In 2011 Polls
DMK Treasurer and then candidate for Kolathur assembly constituency M K Stalin today appeared in Madras High Court in connection with a poll petition filed by AIADMK's Saidai Duraiswamy, who was his rival candidate in the 2011 polls, and denied all allegations raised against him.
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Less Voter Turnout In Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry Compared To 2011
The turn out of voters in assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry today is less than the 2011 polls, the Election Commission said. However, the percentage is likely to go up as the figures were not final.
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Big Fight Ahead, Says Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, On Campaign Trail
For the first time since the Left Front lost the West Bengal Assembly elections in 2011, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, former chief minister, hit the campaign trail in Kolkata on Tuesday amid a sea of red flags and cadres clearly rejuvenated to see him in public.
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Bengal Elections: With Baichung Bhutia Contesting, Siliguri Poised For Interesting Contest
For Siliguri mayor and former minister Ashok Bhattacharya it is a fight to stage a comeback after his surprise defeat in the 2011 assembly election as he takes on former Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia, who has taken the field as a Trinamool Congress nominee.
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Surjya Kanta Mishra Faces Tough Battle In West Bengal's Narayangarh
He stoutly defended the Marxist stronghold in 2011 when the Trinamool Congress ousted the Left Front. But five years down the line, CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra is fighting a tough battle in Narayangarh as he tries to usher in change in West Bengal.
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MK Stalin's Shock Defeat Puts Nail In DMK's Coffin. But Who Beat Him?
The Kolathur seat was created after delimitation before the 2011 election and Stalin - then the Deputy Chief Minister - edged the AIADMK's Saidai Duraisamy in the state poll that year by 2,734 votes.
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Opinion | 5 Districts Made Mamata In 2011. Will They Unmake Her This Time?
In 2011, the TMC alliance swept 82 out of the 108 seats here, signalling the end of the Left regime. Analysts called it a fluke, saying the Left would come back. That was not to be.
-
Puducherry Set To Go To Polls Tomorrow With High-Profile Face-Off In 2 Seats
Political disputes have intensified throughout the Union Territory, but the elections in Thattanchavady and Lawspet are gaining attention.
-
Mamata Banerjee Faces Fight, Left Keeps Kerala, BJP Wins Assam: Exit Polls
Mamata Banerjee has an edge in Bengal and her Trinamool Congress could win 152 of the state's 294 seats with the BJP not far behind at 130 seats, says NDTV's poll of exit polls on state elections that were held alongside a steep rise in Covid cases a
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Tamil Nadu Poll: O Panneerselvam Attempts Hat-Trick From His Constituency
Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam, who has been representing the Bodinayakkanur constituency since 2011, is attempting a hat-trick from here in the April 6 assembly election.
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'Metro Man' E Sreedharan To Join BJP, Says Open To Fighting Kerala Polls
E Sreedharan, the legendary "Metro Man" of India, is set to join the BJP months ahead of polls in Kerala.
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As Karnataka Votes, Confident Yeddyurappa Announces "Date" For Swearing-In
As Karnataka began voting today in an election that many predict will be a close fight, BS Yeddyurappa, the presumptive chief minister of the BJP, expressed confidence that he would form the new government on May 17 after an emphatic victory. Mr Yeddyurappa is the BJP candidate from Shikaripura.
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Record 77 Per Cent Polling In Chennai's RK Nagar, Highest Since 2011
A record 77 per cent voting was recorded in Chennai's RK Nagar, the seat which had been left vacant by the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year. Election officials the figure is the highest since 2011. During the 2016 assembly elections, around 67.6 per cent polling was recorded. The counting of votes will ...
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UP Election 2017: Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee Unlikely To Cast His Vote
As with the 2007 and 2011 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, voter number 141 of Lucknow Central constituency is unlikely to vote in the third phase of the 2017 election, scheduled for Sunday.
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Mulayam Yadav To Address First Rally Ahead Of UP Polls On November 23
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav will address his first rally in the run-up to the 2011 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election at Azamgarh on November 23.
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MK Stalin Denies Allegation Made Against Him In 2011 Polls
DMK Treasurer and then candidate for Kolathur assembly constituency M K Stalin today appeared in Madras High Court in connection with a poll petition filed by AIADMK's Saidai Duraiswamy, who was his rival candidate in the 2011 polls, and denied all allegations raised against him.
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Less Voter Turnout In Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry Compared To 2011
The turn out of voters in assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry today is less than the 2011 polls, the Election Commission said. However, the percentage is likely to go up as the figures were not final.
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Big Fight Ahead, Says Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, On Campaign Trail
For the first time since the Left Front lost the West Bengal Assembly elections in 2011, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, former chief minister, hit the campaign trail in Kolkata on Tuesday amid a sea of red flags and cadres clearly rejuvenated to see him in public.
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Bengal Elections: With Baichung Bhutia Contesting, Siliguri Poised For Interesting Contest
For Siliguri mayor and former minister Ashok Bhattacharya it is a fight to stage a comeback after his surprise defeat in the 2011 assembly election as he takes on former Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia, who has taken the field as a Trinamool Congress nominee.
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Surjya Kanta Mishra Faces Tough Battle In West Bengal's Narayangarh
He stoutly defended the Marxist stronghold in 2011 when the Trinamool Congress ousted the Left Front. But five years down the line, CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra is fighting a tough battle in Narayangarh as he tries to usher in change in West Bengal.
