Mandate 2009 threw couple of surprises, with Congress and UPA doing better than expected. BJP and its NDA allies fared well in the BJP ruled states, whereas Congress- Samajwadi duo gave fair amount of jitters to Mayawati's BSP in Uttar Pradesh. Congress-Trinamool Congress almost wrote off Left in West Bengal. Congress stole the show in Kerala as well. Maharashtra too brought good news for Congress and its alliance partner NCP. Varun won by a record margin in the first ever election that he contested. The new Lok Sabha will see all the Gandhis in the Parliament.
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India Elections: Just in
Lone ranger Sajjad loses poll but wins base
Advani not keen to be Leader of Opposition: Rajnath
Karat is narcissistic, should quit: Somnath Chatterjee
Congress wins 21 seats in Uttar Pradesh, stumps rivals
DMK-led front bags 28 seats in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry
Seven out of seven for Congress in Delhi
Congress sweeps Lok Sabha polls in Andhra
21.45pm: UPA 259 NDA 162 Third Front 77 Others 45
Pakistan President Zardari congratulates Dr Manmohan Singh
UP voted for development and against politics of caste: Rahul
Jayalalitha: DMK's money and muscle power won
8.46 pm: UPA 258; NDA 164; Third Front 78; Fourth Front 30
Left Front routed out in Kerala
Congress secures majority in Andhra Pradesh
West Bengal: Left's worst showing in 32 years
Congress posts its best performance since 1991
Rahul: Advani fought a strong election
PM to Advani:Time to start a new chapter
Advani wanted to quit politics: Venkaiah Naidu
Advani to step down as the leader of opposition
Mulayam Singh wins from Mainpuri (UP)
6.39 pm: UPA 260; NDA 163; Third Front 77; Fourth Front 27
Rahul Gandhi wins from Amethi
Murali Manohar Joshi wins from Varanasi
BJP: Best mandate to rule is with UPA
Shibhu Soren wins in Jharkhand
Vinod Khanna loses from Bhatinda in Punjab
Naveen Jindal wins from Kurukshetra, Haryana
Congress: Lalu, some other ministers to stay
Advani congratulates Sonia, Manmohan on UPA win
5.34 pm: UPA 257; NDA 166; Third Front 78; Fourth Front 26
Somnath: CPM should consider change of leadership
L K Advani leading by a margin of 1,19,000 votes in Gandhinagar
Chidambaram wins after recount in Sivaganga (TN)
Pranab Mukherjee wins from Jangipur, West Bengal
Union Minister Renuka Choudhary loses from Andhra Pradesh
All secular parties should come together: PM
Manmohan Singh is our Prime Minister, reiterates Sonia
Sonia: People of India know what's good for them
4 pm: Party position
Cong 203
BJP 121
Left 25
BSP 23
TC 19
DMK 18
JDU 21
SP 21People expressed faith in the visionary leadership of Sonia Gandhi: PM
PM for cabinet post to Rahul Gandhi
Samajwadi's Jaya Prada wins from Rampur (UP)
Devegowda wins in Karnataka
Varun Gandhi wins by a record margin
NCP's Prafull Patel wins in Maharashtra
Gopinath Munde (BJP) wins in Maharashtra
Salman Khurshid (Cong) leading in Uttar Pradesh
Lalu Prasad Yadav wins from Saran (Bihar); loses from Patliputra
Pranab Mukherjee leading in West Bengal
3.36 pm: Congress alone secures over 200 seats, Cong plus allies (UPA) reach 261 mark
Priya Dutt (Cong- Mumbai); Mohammed Azharuddin (Cong- Moradabad, UP) win
3.15 pm: UPA just 12 seats short of majority number 272
3.14 pm: UPA 259; NDA 158; Third Front 82; Fourth Front 27
Chiranjeevi wins from Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh
BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi wins from Varanasi
Dispute arises in Sivaganga; PC claims victory; AIADMK counters it
Recounting ordered in Sivaganga (TN)
Shiela Dikshit's son, Sandeep Dikshit wins from East Delhi
Congress wins in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Farooq Abdullah wins from Srinagar
BJP wins in Bangalore North
Congress wins from North West Delhi
BJP's Navjyot Singh Sidhu scores a hat-trick; wins from Amritsar
DMK leading in Chennai Central
Mulayam's Samajwadi Party doing remarkably well in UP
Kamal Nath wins from Chinddwara (MP) retaining the seat for consecutive 29 years
Sachin Pilot wins from Ajmer, Rajasthan by a margin of 77,000 votes
Congress leading in Anand, Gujarat
Congress leading in Jammu
Congress wins in North Central Mumbai
BJP leads in Bangalore North
BJP wins in Surat, Gujarat
Sonia Gandhi wins from Rai Bareli
Congress leading in Mumbai North
BJP leading in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Won't support Cong or BJP led govt: Patnaik
Maneka Gandhi wins from Aonla in Uttar Pradesh
Ram Vilas Paswan loses in Bihar
Gujarat: BJP wins in Vadodara
Orissa: BJD wins Kandhamal
Punjab: Congress wins in Jalandar
U-turns: Jaya Prada, Ajit Singh, Raj Babbar, Kalyan Singh leading
Congress emerges as the single largest party in UP
Shashi Tharoor wins by 63,000 votes
Rajnath Singh: Absence of Vajpayee impacted us
Delhi: Congress leading in all seven seats
- Pawar: NCP will support Dr Manmohan Singh as the PM
- Akali-BJP tie up faring well in Punjab
- Anand Sharma: Rahul re-energised Congress
- Maharashtra: Cong-NCP sweeping; Raj Thackeray’s MNS at no. 2
- Gujarat: Modi doing better than last time; leading in 16 out of 26
India Elections: Hits & Misses
Elections 2009: Stalwarts who made it big
Elections 2009: Giants who bit the dust
The good professor is back ... with a better mandate
Rahul Gandhi's summer of content
End of the road for L. K. Advani?
India Elections: Reactions
Supporters throng Race Course Road as 'Singh emerges King'
Gloom at BJP office, leaders and workers stay away
Advani's residence wears gloomy look
Projection of Modi as future PM was an 'error of judgement'
Sonia, Rahul congratulate Manmohan Singh
Markets move up brushing aside poll result fears
India Inc hails UPA victory; expects faster reforms
Bankers welcome poll results; feel reforms will get a push
Celebrations in front of Mamata's residence
