2015 elections in India explained

Legislative assembly elections

Date(s)	State/UT	Government before		Chief Minister before election	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
7 February 2015	Delhi		President's Rule			Aam Aadmi Party	Arvind Kejriwal
12 October 2015 – 5 November 2015	Bihar		Janata Dal (United)	Nitish Kumar		Rashtriya Janata Dal	Nitish Kumar
					Janata Dal (United)
			Rashtriya Janata Dal			Indian National Congress

The elections in India in 2015 include the two state legislative assembly elections. The tenures of the state legislative assembly of Bihar were due to expire during the year, and the Delhi Legislative Assembly re-election would also be held due to the inability to form the government.^[1]

Parliamentary by-election

S.No	Date	Constituency	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Bangaon	Kapil Krishna Thakur		All India Trinamool Congress	Mamata Thakur		All India Trinamool Congress
2	21 November 2015	Warangal	Kadiyam Srihari		Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Pasunuri Dayakar		Telangana Rashtra Samithi
3		Ratlam	Dileep Singh Bhuria		Bharatiya Janata Party	Kantilal Bhuria		Indian National Congress

Assembly by-elections

Maharashtra

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Mukhed	Govind Rathod		Bharatiya Janata Party	Tushar Rathod		Bharatiya Janata Party
2	11 April 2015	Tasgaon	R. R. Patil		Nationalist Congress Party	Suman Patil		Nationalist Congress Party
3		Vandre East	Prakash Sawant		Shiv Sena	Trupti Sawant		Shiv Sena

Manipur

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	21 November 2015	Thongju	Thongam Biswajit Singh		All India Trinamool Congress	Thongam Biswajit Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Thangmeiband	Khumukcham Joykishan			Khumukcham Joykishan

Meghalaya

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	27 June 2015	Chokpot	Clifford Marak		Garo National Council	Bluebell Sangma		Indian National Congress
2	21 November 2015	Nongstoin	Hopingstone Lyngdoh		Hill State People's Democratic Party	Diostar Jyndiang		Hill State People's Democratic Party

Tamil Nadu

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	13 February 2015	Srirangam	J. Jayalalithaa		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	S. Valarmathi		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2	27 June 2015	Radhakrishnan Nagar	P. Vetriivel			J. Jayalalithaa

Tripura

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	27 June 2015	Pratapgarh	Anil Sarkar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Ramu Das		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2		Surma	Sudhir Das			Anjan Das

Uttar Pradesh

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
1	11 April 2015	Charkhari	Kaptan Singh		Samajwadi Party	Urmila Rajput		Samajwadi Party
2	30 April 2015	Pharenda	Bajrang Bahadur Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vinod Tiwari

West Bengal

External links

• Election Commission of India

Notes and References

1. Web site: Terms of Houses, Election Commission of India. 2014-07-30.