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17. Net seat change. NDA +1. Local elections. Seats contested. 20. Net seat change. NDA +1. Elections in India in 2023 were held in the Rajya Sabha, state legislative assemblies of nine states and several local bodies.
The seventh-largest country by area, India is located on the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. India was home to the ancient Indus Valley civilisation, and is the birthplace of four world religions: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism. India endured colonisation, eventually being administered by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century to ...
31. West Bengal. TMC + BGPM. BJP. LF + INC + ISF. As of 4th June 2024 NDA have government in 19 States and 1 Union Territories. I.N.D.I.A bloc have government in 8 States and 1 Union Territory. Other one party ZPM, which is not part of any alliance has government in Mizoram state.
India comprises 28 states and 8 union territories.All states and territories, including the three union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, the National Capital Territory of Delhi and Puducherry have elected legislatures and governments patterned on the Westminster system.
In 2023, according to the Freedom in the World report by Freedom House, India was classified as a "partly free" country for the third consecutive year. [31] [32] The V-Dem Democracy Indices by V-Dem Institute classify India as an 'electoral autocracy'. In 2023, it referred to India as "one of the worst autocracies in the last 10 years". [33]
The office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no elections held since the former state was reorganized in 2019. Two of the incumbents are women — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, who has the longest continuous incumbency serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 123 days) and Atishi Marlena Singh in Delhi.
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, commonly known by its backronym I.N.D.I.A. [7] is an opposition front announced by the leaders of 28 parties to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The name was proposed during a meeting in Bengaluru and was unanimously adopted by the 28 participating parties.
Aspirant states and union territories of India. The constitutional power to create new states and union territories in India is solely reserved with the Parliament of India, which can do so by announcing new states/union territories, separating territory from an existing state or merging two or more states/union territories or parts of them. [1]