Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2009

Arunachal Pradesh Assembly Elections 2009

2004 ← 13 October 2009 → 2014

All 60 Assembly Constituencies Turnout 72%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Dorjee Khandu Party INC BJP NCP Alliance UPA NDA UPA Leader since 2007 Leader's seat Mukto none none Last election 2004 2004 Seats before 34 9 2 Seats won 42 3 5 Seat change 8 6 3 Popular vote 879,288 89,787 358,098 Percentage 50.38% 5.21% 19.33% Swing 5.97% 2.58% 15.05%

Arunachal Pradesh District Map

CM before election Dorjee Khandu INC CM-elect Dorjee Khandu INC

Dorjee Khandu
INC

Dorjee Khandu
INC

The Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election of 2009 took place in October 2009, concurrently with the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana. The elections were held in the state for all 60 Assembly seats on 2009-10-13. The results were declared on 2009-10-22. Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's Indian National Congress party came back to power in the state with an increased majority, winning 42 seats in the 60 seat Assembly.

In the 2004 Arunachal Pradesh Assembly election, Congress won 34 of the 60 seats and Congress leader Gegong Apang was elected as the Congress Legislative Party and was sworn in as the Chief Minister. Apang had defected from the Bharatiya Janata Party just a few weeks before the election. The BJP managed to win 9 seats.

However, in April 2007, 29 Congress legislators formally supported a change of leadership in the state Congress. The dissidents also claimed support from 2 NCP, 1 Arunachal Congress and 11 independent legislators. Apang, Arunachal's longest serving chief minister, was forced to step down on 2007-04-09 when the Congress legislators elected Power Minister Dorjee Khandu as the new Congress Legislative Party leader. Khandu was sworn in as the state's seventh Chief Minister by Nagaland Governor K. Sankaranarayanan on 2007-04-10.

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