2009 Lok Sabha election: results tally

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat Tuesday said Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L.K. Advani's decisions to resign as leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha after the party's poll debacle and to continue in the post later were his own.

July 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With their Lok Sabha members' tally drastically reduced this time, the Left parties are planning to request Speaker Meira Kumar to allow them to sit as a single block - to present themselves as the third largest entity in the house, a senior Left party leader has said. "The four Left parties are seriously planning to sit as a single block in the Lok Sabha.

May 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission will formally submit the list of newly-elected Lok Sabha members to President Pratibha Patil on Monday. The new House is constituted by the Election Commission, which performs this work within two to three days of declaration of results.

May 18th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The independent MP from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir joined the National Conference (NC) Monday bringing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) tally to 263 in the newly elected Lok Sabha. Ghulam Hassan Khan, who fought the Lok Sabha election against the Congress candidate in the cold desert region of Ladakh, announced his decision to return to the National Conference at a news conference here.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Sunday announced results for all the 543 elected seats of the Lok Sabha, giving the United Progressive Alliance 262 seats, 10 short of the halfway mark. The last pending result of Chandauli constituency of Uttar Pradesh was released in the evening.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leaders of the Left parties Sunday announced that each party will individually review the reverses suffered by them in the 2009 general elections. 'In the light of the Lok Sabha election results, it was decided that each party individually would review the reverses suffered in the elections.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A three-member Election Commission (EC) team headed by Navin Chawla will formally submit the list of newly-elected Lok Sabha members to President Pratibha Patil on Monday. The new House is constituted by the Election Commission, which does that job within two to three days after the results are declared.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The newly-elected Lok Sabha to be constituted after the elections is all set to have a full budget session in June which will last till August, but it will have no monsoon session this year. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will make the customary address to the first and brief joint session of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, marking the beginning of the new House, said Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Achary to media persons in the capital on Saturday.

May 16th, 2009 RANCHI - The election results day Saturday was a good day for Babulal Marandi, Shibu Soren, Arjun Munda and Madhu Koda - the four men who have at different times occupied the chief minister's post since the formation of Jharkhand nine years ago. The first chief minister of the state and president of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) Babulal Marandi won from the Koderma Lok Sabha constituency by over 44,000 votes defeating Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) candidate, Raj Kumar Yadav.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday termed the Lok Sabha poll results as 'unexpected' and 'disappointing' and also said that it missed the presence of party stalwart and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee during the elections. The party cited its not having allies in big states as the reason for the poor showing.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission's new website, specially created to provide the Lok Sabha election trends and results, developed technical snags in the morning and evening Saturday. The website's server crashed for over two hours in the evening and poll panel officials said it would be set right soon.

May 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - After its poor showing in the Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh assembly polls, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu Saturday said that his party would analyse the election results.

May 15th, 2009 GANGTOK - Results for Sikkim's lone Lok Sabha seat and the 32 assembly constituencies are expected to be known by 1 p.m. Saturday, an election official said Friday.

April 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With two rounds of the Lok Sabha elections over, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress - the two chief contenders for power -- are realising it may be tough for them to improve upon their 2004 tally, according to their internal assessments. In the 2004 elections, the Congress emerged the single largest party winning 145 seats followed by the BJP at 138.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With an eye to the Lok Sabha polls to be held in April-May, the Election Commission has called for its first meeting with political parties Feb 3, a statement issued here said Monday. 'The Election Commission of India as part of its exercise for preparation for the general election is holding a series of reviews and consultations during the first week of February,' the statement said.