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26 July – India launches its first nuclear submarine, the INS Arihant. [27] 6 August – An Indian court sentences to death three people for carrying out bombings that killed more than 50 people in Mumbai in 2003. [28] [29] 11 August – 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Andaman Islands of India. No ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. 2009 Indian general election ← 2004 16 April 2009 – 13 May 2009 (2009-05-13) 2014 → ← outgoing members elected members → 543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority Registered 716,985,101 Turnout 58.21% (0.14 pp) First party Second party Third party ...
To constitute India's 15th Lok Sabha, general elections were held in April–May 2009. The results were announced on 16 May 2009. The main contenders were two alliance groups of the Incumbent United Progressive Alliance and the Opposition National Democratic Alliance; led by Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party respectively.
Party Votes % Seats; Indian National Congress: 119,111,019: 28.55: 206: Bharatiya Janata Party: 78,435,381: 18.80: 116: Bahujan Samaj Party: 25,728,920: 6.17: 21 ...
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9 17 Third Front: Indian National Congress: 6 1 United Progressive Alliance: Communist Party of India: 2 1 Third Front: All India Forward Bloc: 2 1 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) 1 1 Bharatiya Janata Party: 1 1 National Democratic Alliance: Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 1 1 Others
The 2009 elections in India includes the general election and elections to the Rajya Sabha, to state legislative assemblies, to Panchayats and urban local bodies.
The 2009 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu was held for 39 seats in the state. There was a radical change in the alliances in this election compared to the last election, reminiscent of the 1999 election in Tamil Nadu.
The 2009 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh were held for 80 seats with the state going to polls across all the five phases of the general elections.The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Fourth Front.