15th Lok Sabha - Bye-elections

Bye-elections

• On November 2009, Raj Babbar of Indian National Congress got elected from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. Seat was vacant as Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party resigned from this seat keeping the Kannauj Seat as he had contested from both and had to drop one seat.
• On May 13, 2011, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of YSR Congress got elected from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. He resigned his seat, when he resigned from Indian National Congress. He contested that seat again won by 5,45,000 votes.
• Elections were held on 13th October 2011 for the Hissar Lok Sabha seat due to the death of Mr. Bhajan Lal. The HJC-BJP alliance, represented by Mr. Kuldeep Bishnoi s/o Late Mr. Bhajan Lal, won the election.
• On May 3, 2012, Akhilesh Yadav resigned from the Kannauj seat, to serve as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, after Samajwadi Party won Assembly Elections. His wife, Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed from the seat in the bye-elections.
• On October 13, 2012 results of by-elections to Tehri Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttarakhand and Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal were declared. The incumbent MP of Tehri Mr.Vijay Bahuguna had resigned upon being elected to the Uttarakhand state assembly and becoming Chief Minister, while the MP from Jangipur, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, had ceased to be an MP upon election as the President Of India, thus necessitating the by-elections. In Tehri, Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah of BJP won the seat while Mr.Abhijit Mukherjee (son of Pranab Mukherjee) retained the Jangipur seat as Congress nominee.