Election Results 2017

A region wise analysis of the Gujarat assembly results shows that the ruling BJP swept Saurashtra, winning 40 of 48 seats, regaining its hold over a region where the Congress held sway in 2017 polls, bagging as many as 28 seats.

The Patidar community, a section of which had voted against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2017 Assembly polls, returned to the ruling outfit in the just concluded polls as it won almost all the seats.

"In Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi has been blessed for the fourth time consecutively -- 2014 Lok Sabha, 2017 Vidha Sabha, 2019 Lok Sabha and now, in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections," BJP president JP Nadda said.

Yogi Adityanath was an unexpected pick for the chief minister's post after the BJP scored a landslide win in the 2017 UP Assembly polls.

The Congress's Goa unit has approached the Supreme Court over the defection of its 10 MLAs to the BJP in 2017. The Congress's move came as counting is going in in the Goa assembly elections 2022.

As voting ends in five states, and ahead of the election results later this week, the Congress has launched unprecedented moves to prevent defections that have hurt the party in the past.

The BJP, which had managed to retain power in Gujarat with a slender majority in the 2017 Assembly polls, has now improved its position ahead of the 2022 state elections by winning all eight seats in the bypolls held last week.

Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was sacked from the BSF in 2017, has resigned from the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) following the party's tie-up with the BJP to form the new Haryana government

Alpesh Thakor, who emerged as an OBC leader during the Patel quota agitation and won the Radhanpur seat in the 2017 polls on Congress' ticket, later quit after differences with the state party leadership.

The Junagadh Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat has been a BJP bastion since 1991, but the party is not going to have it easy this time going by the results of the 2017 assembly polls.

In selecting Marudhu Ganesh, also known as NM Ganesh, as its candidate, the DMK had hoped to send a message to the party cadre that ordinary workers too could rise to important positions in the party. Mr Ganesh comes from a family of DMK card holders; his mother was a municipal councilor between 1996 and 2001 when DMK working president M.K. Stalin ...

AIADMK's E Madhusudanan, the only candidate in the race for the prestigious RK Nagar constituency in Chennai, to have won an election from this seat earlier. This was 20 years ago, in 1991, when he was inducted into party's patriarch J Jayalalithaa cabinet as the handloom minister.

TTV Dhinakaran, 54, was pulled out of the cold and handed the reins of the party this February when his aunt, VK Sasikala - headed to a Bengaluru jail to serve her jail term - decided to run the party by remote control.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who met party leaders in Ahmedabad on Saturday to discuss assembly election results, claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much talked-about Gujarat development model was debunked during the polls.

Rahul Gandhi will meet Congress leaders in Gujarat, who have already begun analysing the election result, to review and get insight about the electoral outcome. Gujarat Congress organised a three-day conclave, which ends today, to study the poll results. During the 'chintan shivir' (introspection camp), Congress leaders and workers in Gujarat have ...

A region wise analysis of the Gujarat assembly results shows that the ruling BJP swept Saurashtra, winning 40 of 48 seats, regaining its hold over a region where the Congress held sway in 2017 polls, bagging as many as 28 seats.

The Patidar community, a section of which had voted against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2017 Assembly polls, returned to the ruling outfit in the just concluded polls as it won almost all the seats.

"In Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi has been blessed for the fourth time consecutively -- 2014 Lok Sabha, 2017 Vidha Sabha, 2019 Lok Sabha and now, in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections," BJP president JP Nadda said.

Yogi Adityanath was an unexpected pick for the chief minister's post after the BJP scored a landslide win in the 2017 UP Assembly polls.

The Congress's Goa unit has approached the Supreme Court over the defection of its 10 MLAs to the BJP in 2017. The Congress's move came as counting is going in in the Goa assembly elections 2022.

As voting ends in five states, and ahead of the election results later this week, the Congress has launched unprecedented moves to prevent defections that have hurt the party in the past.

The BJP, which had managed to retain power in Gujarat with a slender majority in the 2017 Assembly polls, has now improved its position ahead of the 2022 state elections by winning all eight seats in the bypolls held last week.

Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was sacked from the BSF in 2017, has resigned from the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) following the party's tie-up with the BJP to form the new Haryana government

Alpesh Thakor, who emerged as an OBC leader during the Patel quota agitation and won the Radhanpur seat in the 2017 polls on Congress' ticket, later quit after differences with the state party leadership.

The Junagadh Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat has been a BJP bastion since 1991, but the party is not going to have it easy this time going by the results of the 2017 assembly polls.

In selecting Marudhu Ganesh, also known as NM Ganesh, as its candidate, the DMK had hoped to send a message to the party cadre that ordinary workers too could rise to important positions in the party. Mr Ganesh comes from a family of DMK card holders; his mother was a municipal councilor between 1996 and 2001 when DMK working president M.K. Stalin ...

AIADMK's E Madhusudanan, the only candidate in the race for the prestigious RK Nagar constituency in Chennai, to have won an election from this seat earlier. This was 20 years ago, in 1991, when he was inducted into party's patriarch J Jayalalithaa cabinet as the handloom minister.

TTV Dhinakaran, 54, was pulled out of the cold and handed the reins of the party this February when his aunt, VK Sasikala - headed to a Bengaluru jail to serve her jail term - decided to run the party by remote control.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who met party leaders in Ahmedabad on Saturday to discuss assembly election results, claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much talked-about Gujarat development model was debunked during the polls.

Rahul Gandhi will meet Congress leaders in Gujarat, who have already begun analysing the election result, to review and get insight about the electoral outcome. Gujarat Congress organised a three-day conclave, which ends today, to study the poll results. During the 'chintan shivir' (introspection camp), Congress leaders and workers in Gujarat have ...