Arunachal Pradesh
SN | Party | Seats contested | No. of elected | Seats changed |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Indian National Congress | 60 | 42/55 | + 8/+ 21 |
2 | Nationalist Congress Party | 37 | 5/0 | + 3/- 2 |
2 | All India Trinamool Congress | 26 | 5/1 | + 5/+ 1 |
3 | People's Party of Arunachal | 10 | 4/0 | + 4/0 |
4 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 18 | 3 | - 6 |
5 | Independent | 6 | 1 | - 12 |
Total: | 157 | 60 |
In a major political development, four Trinamool Congress (TMC) and five Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislators joined the ruling Congress on october 7,2012, increasing its strength to 55 in the 60-member assembly. The four PPA MLAs had already switched over to the Congress on February 14, 2012.With this, the parties' positions in the assembly has changed to Congress 55 seats, BJP three seats, and TMC and Independents one seat each.
Read more about this topic: State Assembly Elections In India, 2009