The 2004 elections in India includes the general election and elections to the Rajya Sabha, to state legislative assemblies, to Panchayats and urban local bodies.
General election
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date
! Country
! colspan="2" |Government before election
!Prime Minister before election
! colspan="2" |Government after election
!Prime Minister after election
|- style="text-align:center;"
| rowspan="2" | 20 April to 10 May 2004
| rowspan="2" | India
| rowspan="2" bgcolor=""|
| rowspan="2" | National Democratic Alliance
| rowspan="2" | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
|bgcolor="|
|United Progressive Alliance
| rowspan="2" | Manmohan Singh
|-
|bgcolor="|
|style="text-align:center"|Left Front
|-
|}
Overall result
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Date(s)
!State
!colspan="2"|Government before
!Chief Minister before
! colspan="2" |Government after
!Elected Chief Minister
!Maps
|-
|rowspan=4|20 April and 26 April 2004
|Andhra Pradesh
|
|N. Chandrababu Naidu
|
|Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
|50px
|-
|Odisha
|
|Naveen Patnaik
|
|Naveen Patnaik
|50px
|-
| rowspan="2" |Karnataka
|
| rowspan="2" |S. M. Krishna
|
| rowspan="2" |Dharam Singh
| rowspan="2" |50px
|-
|
| align="left"|Janata Dal (Secular)
|-
|10 May 2004
|Sikkim
|
|Pawan Kumar Chamling
|
|Pawan Kumar Chamling
|50px
|-
|rowspan=4|13 October 2004
|Arunachal Pradesh
|
|Gegong Apang
|
|Gegong Apang
|50px
|-
|rowspan=2|Maharashtra
|
| rowspan="2" |Sushilkumar Shinde
|
| rowspan="2" |Vilasrao Deshmukh
|rowspan=2|50px
|-
|
|
|-
|}
Legislative Assembly elections
Andhra Pradesh
thumb|right|[[Andhra Pradesh]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Party
! No. of candidates
! No. of elected
! No. of votes
! %
|-
| Bharatiya Janata Party
| 27
| 2
| 942008
| 2,63%
|-
| Bahujan Samaj Party
| 160
| 1
| 440719
| 1,23%
|-
| Communist Party of India
| 12
| 6
| 545867
| 1.53%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| 14
| 9
| 656721
| 1,84%
|-
| Indian National Congress
| 234
| 185
| 13793461
| 38,56%
|-
| Telugu Desam Party
| 267
| 47
| 13444168
| 37,59%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
| 11
| 0
| 66997
| 0,19%
|-
| Janata Dal (Secular)
| 5
| 0
| 3864
| 0,01%
|-
| Indian Union Muslim League
| 2
| 0
| 5371
| 0,02%
|-
| Rashtriya Janata Dal
| 8
| 0
| 2725
| 0,01%
|-
| Samajwadi Party
| 19
| 1
| 95416
| 0,27%
|-
| Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
| 4
| 0
| 3792
| 0,01%
|-
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
| 7
| 4
| 375165
| 1,05%
|-
| Ambedkar National Congress
| 5
| 0
| 6573
| 0,02%
|-
| Backward Castes United Front
| 7
| 0
| 3652
| 0,01%
|-
| Bahujan Republican Party
| 9
| 0
| 10576
| 0,03%
|-
| Bharatiya Rashtravadi Paksha
| 1
| 0
| 542
| 0,00%
|-
| Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar)
| 1
| 0
| 2339
| 0,01%
|-
| Indian Justice Party
| 2
| 0
| 1361
| 0,00%
|-
| Janata Party
| 37
| 2
| 306347
| 0,86%
|-
| Lok Janshakti Party
| 4
| 0
| 21550
| 0,06%
|-
| Majlis Bachao Tahreek
| 7
| 0
| 70285
| 0,20%
|-
| Marxist Communist Party of India
| 16
| 0
| 23373
| 0,06%
|-
| Mudiraj Rashtriya Samithi
| 5
| 0
| 10606
| 0,03%
|-
| NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi)
| 18
| 0
| 7857
| 0,02%
|-
| Praja Party
| 8
| 0
| 4439
| 0,01%
|-
| Pyramid Party of India
| 65
| 0
| 115187
| 0,32%
|-
| Peoples Republican Party
| 1
| 0
| 1515
| 0,00%
|-
| Rashtriya Praja Congress (Secular)
| 1
| 0
| 1037
| 0,00%
|-
| Republican Party of India
| 3
| 0
| 1523
| 0,00%
|-
| Republican Party of India (Athvale)
| 1
| 0
| 956
| 0,00%
|-
| Republican Party of India (Khobragade)
| 5
| 0
| 6031
| 0,02%
|-
| Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
| 1
| 0
| 1991
| 0,01%
|-
| Telangana Congress Party
| 1
| 0
| 52161
| 0,15%
|-
| Telangana Praja Party
| 2
| 0
| 1083
| 0,00%
|-
| Bharat Rashtra Samithi
| 54
| 26
| 2390940
| 6,68%
|-
| Independents
| 872
| 11
| 2349436
| 6,57%
|-
| Total:
| 1896
| 294
| 35767634
|
|}
The elected independents include one member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy.
Karnataka
thumb|right|[[Karnataka]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Party
! No. of candidates
! No. of elected
! No. of votes
! %
|-
| Bharatiya Janata Party
| 198
| 79
| 7118658
| 28,33%
|-
| Bahujan Samaj Party
| 102
| 0
| 437564
| 1,74%
|-
| Communist Party of India
| 5
| 0
| 26223
| 0,10%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| 5
| 1
| 92081
| 0,37%
|-
| Indian National Congress
| 224
| 65
| 8861959
| 35,27%
|-
| Janata Dal (Secular)
| 220
| 58
| 5220121
| 20,77%
|-
| Janata Dal (United)
| 26
| 5
| 517904
| 2,06%
|-
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
| 2
| 0
| 16737
| 0,07%
|-
| All India Forward Bloc
| 1
| 0
| 657
| 0,00%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
| 2
| 0
| 2323
| 0,01%
|-
| Indian Union Muslim League
| 6
| 0
| 3698
| 0,01%
|-
| Shiv Sena
| 11
| 0
| 47805
| 0,19%
|-
| Samajwadi Party
| 15
| 0
| 11028
| 0,04%
|-
| All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist)
| 1
| 0
| 1099
| 0,00%
|-
| Ambedkar National Congress
| 2
| 0
| 1155
| 0,00%
|-
| Bharatiya Praja Paksha
| 1
| 0
| 228
| 0,00%
|-
| Bharatiya Peoples and National Security National Party
| 1
| 0
| 189
| 0,00%
|-
| Indian Christian Secular Party
| 1
| 0
| 111
| 0,00%
|-
| Janata Party
| 155
| 0
| 504932
| 2,01%
|-
| Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha
| 5
| 1
| 38687
| 0,15%
|-
| Kannada Nadu Party
| 188
| 1
| 330547
| 1,32%
|-
| Karnataka Rajya Ryota Sangha
| 10
| 0
| 52874
| 0,21%
|-
| Lok Janshakti Party
| 4
| 0
| 3775
| 0,02%
|-
| Manava Party
| 1
| 0
| 343
| 0,00%
|-
| Parcham Party of India
| 1
| 0
| 2058
| 0,01%
|-
| Pyramid Party of India
| 3
| 0
| 2866
| 0,01%
|-
| Republican Party of India
| 3
| 1
| 25379
| 0,10%
|-
| Republican Party of India (Athvale)
| 9
| 0
| 8483
| 0,03%
|-
| Sirpanch Samaj Party
| 3
| 0
| 4037
| 0,02%
|-
| Urs Samyuktha Paksha
| 67
| 0
| 66319
| 0,26%
|-
| Independents
| 442
| 13
| 1724480
| 6,57%
|-
| Total:
| 1715
| 224
| 25129066
|
|}
Orissa
thumb|right|[[Orissa, India|Orissa]]
thumb|Parliament diagram after the election
Source:ECI
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Party
! No. of candidates
! No. of elected
! No. of votes
! %
|-
| Indian National Congress
| 133
| 38
| 5896713
| 34,82%
|-
| Biju Janata Dal
| 84
| 61
| 4632280
| 27,36%
|-
| Bharatiya Janata Party
| 63
| 32
| 2898105
| 17,11%
|-
| Bahujan Samaj Party
| 86
| 0
| 326724
| 1,93%
|-
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
| 12
| 4
| 301777
| 1,78%
|-
| Orissa Gana Parishad
| 4
| 2
| 217998
| 1,29%
|-
| Communist Party of India
| 6
| 1
| 129989
| 0,77%
|-
| Samajwadi Party
| 29
| 0
| 99214
| 0,59%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| 3
| 1
| 93159
| 0,55%
|-
| Janata Dal (Secular)
| 8
| 0
| 75223
| 0,44%
|-
| Republican Party of India
| 23
| 0
| 47831
| 0,28%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
| 8
| 0
| 28531
| 0,17%
|-
| Samajwadi Jan Parishad
| 1
| 0
| 20365
| 0,12%
|-
| All Jharkhand Students Union
| 4
| 0
| 18982
| 0,11%
|-
| Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Party
| 10
| 0
| 12498
| 0,07%
|-
| Janata Dal (United)
| 5
| 0
| 12080
| 0,07%
|-
| Kosal Party
| 4
| 0
| 11062
| 0,07%
|-
| Shiv Sena
| 4
| 0
| 10733
| 0,06%
|-
| Jharkhand Party
| 3
| 0
| 8751
| 0,05%
|-
| Janata Party
| 4
| 0
| 8022
| 0,05%
|-
| Revolutionary Socialist Party
| 2
| 0
| 4469
| 0,03%
|-
| Rashtriya Janata Dal
| 4
| 0
| 2942
| 0,02%
|-
| Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
| 1
| 0
| 2159
| 0,01%
|-
| Lok Janshakti Party
| 1
| 0
| 1621
| 0,01%
|-
| Indian Justice Party
| 1
| 0
| 1563
| 0,01%
|-
| Jharkhand Disom Party
| 1
| 0
| 1489
| 0,01%
|-
| Proutist Sarva Samaj Party
| 1
| 0
| 1443
| 0,01%
|-
| Sirpanch Samaj Party
| 1
| 0
| 1251
| 0,01%
|-
| All India Forward Bloc
| 1
| 0
| 832
| 0,00%
|-
| Independents
| 295
| 8
| 2065650
| 12,20%
|-
| Total:
| 802
| 147
| 16933456
|
|}
Sikkim
thumb|right|[[Sikkim]]
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
| style="text-align: center;" colspan=5|File:2004 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election.svg
|-
! Party
! No. of candidates
! No. of elected
! No. of votes
! %
|-
| Bharatiya Janata Party
| 4
| 0
| 667
| 0,34%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| 1
| 0
| 144
| 0,07%
|-
| Indian National Congress
| 28
| 1
| 51329
| 26,13%
|-
| Sikkim Democratic Front
| 32
| 31
| 139662
| 71,09%
|-
| Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad
| 9
| 0
| 1123
| 0,57%
|-
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad
| 1
| 0
| 90
| 0,05%
|-
| Independents
| 16
| 0
| 3450
| 1,76%
|-
| Total:
| 91
| 32
| 196465
|
|}
Arunachal Pradesh
thumb|right|[[Arunachal Pradesh]]
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Party
! No. of candidates
! No. of elected
! No. of votes
! %
|-
| Bharatiya Janata Party
| 39
| 9
| 87312
| 2.63%
|-
| Indian National Congress
| 60
| 34
| 204102
| 44.41%
|-
| Nationalist Congress Party
| 10
| 2
| 19673
| 4.28%
|-
| Arunachal Congress
| 11
| 2
| 17817
| 3.88%
|-
| Independents
| 48
| 13
| 130654
| 28.43%
|-
| Total:
| 168
| 60
| 459558
|
|}
Maharashtra
thumb|right|[[Maharashtra]]
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Party
! No. of candidates
! No. of elected
! No. of votes
! %
|-
| Bharatiya Janata Party
| 111
| 56
| 5717287
| 13,67%
|-
| Bahujan Samaj Party
| 272
| 0
| 1671429
| 4,00%
|-
| Communist Party of India
| 15
| 0
| 59242
| 0,14%
|-
| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| 16
| 3
| 259567
| 0,62%
|-
| Indian National Congress
| 157
| 69
| 8810363
| 21,06%
|-
| Nationalist Congress Party
| 124
| 71
| 7841962
| 18,75%
|-
| Shiv Sena
| 163
| 62
| 8351654
| 19,97%
|-
| All India Forward Bloc
| 2
| 0
| 2747
| 0,01%
|-
| Janata Dal (Secular)
| 34
| 0
| 242720
| 0,58%
|-
| Janata Dal (United)
| 17
| 0
| 16891
| 0,04%
|-
| Indian Union Muslim League
| 2
| 0
| 342
| 0,00%
|-
| Rashtriya Lok Dal
| 12
| 0
| 9538
| 0,02%
|-
| Samajwadi Party
| 95
| 0
| 471425
| 1,13%
|-
| Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha
| 18
| 0
| 14914
| 0,04%
|-
| Akhil Bharatiya Sena
| 20
| 1
| 69986
| 0,17%
|-
| Apna Dal
| 1
| 0
| 1053
| 0,00%
|-
| All India Forward Bloc (Subhasist)
| 1
| 0
| 1113
| 0,00%
|-
| All India Krantikari Congress
| 3
| 0
| 1527
| 0,00%
|-
| Ambedkarist Republican Party
| 21
| 0
| 13282
| 0,03%
|-
| Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangha
| 83
| 1
| 516221
| 1,23%
|-
| Bharatiya Minorities Suraksha Mahasangh
| 1
| 0
| 223
| 0,00%
|-
| Bahujan Mahasangha Paksha
| 6
| 0
| 20478
| 0,05%
|-
| Bharatiya Rashtriya Swadeshi Congress Paksh
| 1
| 0
| 721
| 0,00%
|-
| Gondvana Gantantra Party
| 30
| 0
| 58288
| 0,14%
|-
| Hindu Ekta Andolan Party
| 1
| 0
| 273
| 0,00%
|-
| Hindustan Janata Party
| 2
| 0
| 1832
| 0,00%
|-
| Indian Justice Party
| 9
| 0
| 7153
| 0,02%
|-
| Indian Union Muslim League (dissident group)
| 1
| 0
| 111
| 0,00%
|-
| Janata Party
| 2
| 0
| 1497
| 0,00%
|-
| Jan Surajya Shakti
| 19
| 4
| 368156
| 0,88%
|-
| Kranti Kari Jai Hind Sena
| 14
| 0
| 10683
| 0,01%
|-
| Lok Janshakti Party
| 33
| 0
| 30180
| 0,07%
|-
| Lok Rajya Party
| 9
| 0
| 16738
| 0,04%
|-
| Maharashtra Rajiv Congress
| 2
| 0
| 586
| 0,00%
|-
| Maharashtra Secular Front
| 1
| 0
| 457
| 0,00%
|-
| National Loktantrik Party
| 15
| 0
| 9509
| 0,02%
|-
| Nag Vidarbha Andolan Samiti
| 1
| 0
| 29499
| 0,07%
|-
| Native People’s Party
| 1
| 0
| 315
| 0,00%
|-
| Peoples Republican Party
| 55
| 0
| 73806
| 0,18%
|-
| Prabuddha Republican Party
| 21
| 0
| 12501
| 0,03%
|-
| Peasants and Workers Party of India
| 43
| 2
| 549010
| 1,31%
|-
| Republican Party of India
| 4
| 0
| 62531
| 0,15%
|-
| Republican Party of India (Athvale)
| 20
| 1
| 206175
| 0,49%
|-
| Republican Party of India (Democratic)
| 18
| 0
| 12094
| 0,03%
|-
| Republican Party of India (Kamble)
| 2
| 0
| 866
| 0,00%
|-
| Rashtriya Samajik Nayak Paksha
| 6
| 0
| 10087
| 0,02%
|-
| Rashtriya Samaj Paksha
| 38
| 0
| 144753
| 0,35%
|-
| Sachet Bharat Party
| 1
| 0
| 378
| 0,00%
|-
| Samajwadi Janata Party(Maharashtra)
| 4
| 0
| 25866
| 0,06%
|-
| Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
| 1
| 0
| 473
| 0,00%
|-
| Swatantra Bharat Paksha
| 7
| 1
| 176022
| 0,42%
|-
| Shivrajya Party
| 37
| 0
| 28071
| 0,07%
|-
| Savarn Samaj Party
| 1
| 0
| 262
| 0,00%
|-
| Samajwadi Jan Parishad
| 1
| 0
| 545
| 0,00%
|-
| Vidharbha Janata Congress
| 2
| 0
| 7417
| 0,02%
|-
| Vidharbha Rajya Party
| 10
| 0
| 6157
| 0,01%
|-
| Womanist Party of India
| 9
| 0
| 5215
| 0,01%
|-
| Independents
| 1083
| 19
| 5877454
| 14,05%
|-
| Total:
| 2678
| 288
| 41829645
|
|}
Legislative By-elections
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Results by constituency |
- Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency
! colspan="2" |Assembly Constituency
!Turnout
! colspan="5" |Winner
! colspan="5" |Runner Up
! rowspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Margin
|-
! #k
! Names
!%
! Candidate
! colspan="2" | Party
! data-sort-type=number | Votes
!%
! Candidate
! colspan="2" | Party
! data-sort-type=number | Votes
!%
|-
|1||Basohli||59.76%||Kanta Andotra ||||18,759||.97%||Jagdish Raj Sapolia||||14,980||.66%||style="background:"|<span style="color:white;">3,779</span>
|-
|2||Pahalgam||21.64%||Mufti Mohammad Sayeed||||9,056||3.75%||Rafi Ahmad Mir ||||3,882||3.%||style="background:"|<span style="color:white;">5,174</span>
|-
|3||Batmaloo||11.72%||Tariq Ahmed Kara ||||6,856||4.58%||Irfan Ahmed Shah ||||3,588||1.13%||style="background:"|<span style="color:white;">3,268</span>
|-
|4||Akhnoor||64.4%||Sham Lal Sharma||||17,251||31.19%||Govind Ram Sharma ||||13,675||24.73%||style="background:"|<span style="color:white;">3,576</span>
|}
References
External links
- Election Commission of India