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2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
The 2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, also called the 14th Tamil Nadu Assembly election, saw Jayalalithaa's AIADMK win 150 of 234 seats on 38.4% of the vote, reducing the incumbent DMK to 23 seats amid the 2G spectrum scandal, with the DMDK becoming the official opposition.
2012 East Timorese elections
The 2012 East Timorese elections in Timor-Leste comprised a presidential election won by Taur Matan Ruak in April and a July parliamentary election won by Gusmão's CNRT.
2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, held in February and March 2012, chose all 403 members of the state's Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha, with the Samajwadi Party winning a majority.
2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election (4 December 2013): hung 70-seat assembly vote ending 15 years of Congress rule; debut AAP won 28 seats, Congress fell to 8, Kejriwal beat Sheila Dikshit, and a 49-day minority AAP government followed.
2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, held 30 April and 7 May 2014 after the state's bifurcation, elected 175 seats; the TDP-BJP alliance won 106 seats under N. Chandrababu Naidu, YSRCP took 67, and Congress was wiped out.
2014 Indian general election
The 2014 Indian general election elected 543 Lok Sabha members from April 7 to May 12, 2014, giving Narendra Modi's BJP India's first single-party majority since 1984.
2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election
2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Fourteenth Assembly polls. BJP won 122 of 288 seats after splitting from Shiv Sena over seat-sharing; Devendra Fadnavis became Maharashtra's first BJP chief minister, ending 15 years of Congress-NCP rule.
2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
The 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election was a five-phase October-November 2015 vote in which Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav's Grand Alliance won 178 of 243 seats against the BJP-led NDA's 58, ending the NDA's post-2014 dominance in Bihar.
2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
The 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election (7 February 2015) elected Delhi's Sixth Assembly; the Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal won 67 of 70 seats with about 54% of votes, while the BJP took 3 seats on 32.2% and Congress won none.
2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election
The 2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election, held in April 2016, ended 15 years of Congress rule as the BJP, AGP, and BPF alliance won 86 of 126 seats, making Sarbananda Sonowal chief minister.
2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, held May 2016 for 140 seats, saw the LDF under Pinarayi Vijayan defeat the incumbent UDF (91-47 seats), with the BJP winning its first Kerala Assembly seat at Nemom.
2016 Philippine presidential election
Held May 9, 2016, the Philippine presidential election elected Rodrigo Duterte, the first president from Mindanao, with 16,601,997 votes (39.02%), while Leni Robredo won the separately-run vice presidency over Duterte's running mate Cayetano.
2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, held 16 May 2016: AIADMK under J. Jayalalithaa won 134 of 232 seats, breaking three decades of anti-incumbency; DMK-Congress took 98 seats; third front wiped out.
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: six-phase poll returning Mamata Banerjee's TMC to power with 211 of 294 seats and about 47% vote share, reducing the Left-Congress alliance to 71 seats and the BJP to 3.
2017 elections in India
2017 elections in India: assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa (Feb-March), then Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. BJP won 312 of 403 UP seats and 6 of 7 state assemblies; Congress took Punjab with 77 of 117.
2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
The 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election (held 9 and 14 December 2017) elected 182 seats; BJP won a sixth straight term with 99 seats against Congress's 77, its narrowest win since 1995.
2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election
2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election (4 February 2017), Indian state election for 117 seats: Congress under Amarinder Singh won 77 seats, defeating SAD-BJP (18) and AAP (20); results 11 March 2017.
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: held February-March 2017, results 11 March; BJP won 312 of 403 seats, defeating the SP-Congress alliance (SP 47, BSP 19, INC 7); Yogi Adityanath became chief minister.
2018 Bangladeshi general election
The 2018 Bangladeshi general election (11th National Parliament, December 30, 2018) returned Sheikh Hasina's Awami League with over 95% of seats amid a BNP-led opposition campaign marred by mass cases, arrests, violence, and rigging allegations.
2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election
2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election, held in two phases in November 2018: the Indian National Congress won 68 of 90 seats with 43.04% vote share, ending 15 years of BJP rule under Raman Singh; BJP fell to 15, JCC(J) 5, BSP 2.
2018 elections in India
2018 elections in India: State Legislative Assembly polls including Nagaland (February) and five states (Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram) with results on 11 December 2018; the BJP won none of the five, Congress revived, and VVPAT rollout preceded the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
The 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, held on 12 May 2018, produced a hung assembly: the BJP won 104 seats, but a Congress–JD(S) coalition under H.D. Kumaraswamy formed the government.
2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election (Vidhan Sabha election): Congress won 114 of 230 seats to BJP's 109 despite a lower vote share (40.9% vs 41.0%); Kamal Nath became chief minister on December 17, 2018, and the government fell in March 2020 when 22 MLAs followed Jyotiraditya Scindia to the BJP.
2018 Malaysian general election
The 14th Malaysian general election (GE14), 9 May 2018: Pakatan Harapan under Mahathir Mohamad won 121-122 of 222 seats, ending Barisan Nasional's rule since 1957; turnout 82.3%.
2018 Pakistani general election
Pakistan's 25 July 2018 general election elected the National Assembly and provincial assemblies; PTI led by Imran Khan won the most seats, amid a failed RTS result system, pre-poll violence, and an EU EOM finding of an uneven playing field.
2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was held on April 11, 2019, to form the 15th assembly. The YSRCP won 151 seats, ending the TDP government.
2019 elections in India
India's 2019 general election (17th Lok Sabha): seven phases, 11 April–19 May 2019; 67.40% record turnout; 8,054 candidates, 673 parties; BJP won 303 seats, NDA over 350; Congress 52.
2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election
2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election (21 October 2019): BJP won 40 of 90 seats with 36.7% votes, short of the 46 majority mark, and formed a BJP-JJP coalition government with Manohar Lal Khattar as chief minister and Dushyant Chautala as deputy chief minister.
2019 Indian general election in Kerala
2019 Indian general election in Kerala (Lok Sabha, 20 seats, voted 23 April 2019): the Congress-led UDF won 19 seats with 47.23% of votes, the LDF kept only Alappuzha, and the BJP-led NDA won none despite a rising vote share.
2019 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu
The 2019 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu (18 April 2019; Vellore on 5 August) saw the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance win 37 of 39 Lok Sabha seats, the AIADMK-BJP front only one, and the BJP none.