Elections in Rajasthan 2014

 

Election in Rajasthan

 
Rajasthan is the largest state in India in terms of area. Jaipur is the capital of the state. General elections in the state will be held in two phases on 17th April and 24th April. There are 25 parliamentary constituencies. First phase will cover 20 constituencies and second phase will cover the remaining 5 constituencies.
 

Election Results 2014 for Rajasthan Civic Bodies (Municipal)

 

SNo	District	MUNICIPALITY	WARDS	BJP	BSP	CPI(M)	NCP	INC	IND
1	AJMER	BEAWAR	45	21				11	13
		PUSHKAR	20	16				1	3
2	ALWAR	ALWAR	50	23				11	16
		BHIWARI	45	22				11	12
3	BANSWARA	BANSWARA	45	27				16	2
4	BARAN	CHHABRA	25	17				4	4
		MANGROLE	20	9				5	6
5	BARMER	BARMER	40	16				19	5
		BALOTRA	35	11				18	6
6	BHARATPUR	BHARATPUR	50	18	1			11	20
7	BIKANER	BIKANER	60	35				16	9
8	CHITTORGARH	CHITTORGARH	45	33				9	3
		NIMBHAHERA	35	25				9	1
		RAWATBHATA	25	14				7	4
9	CHURU	CHURU	45	30				11	4
		RAJGARH	30	12	3			5	10
10	NGANAGARGA	GANGANAGAR	50	21				10	19
		SURATGARH	35	17		1		5	12
11	JAIPUR	JAIPUR	91	64				18	9
12	HANUMANGARH	HANUMANGARH	45	27				7	11
13	JAISELMER	JAISELMER	35	22				7	6
14	JALORE	BHINMAL	30	15				8	7
		JALORE	30	15				11	4
15	JHUNJHUNU	BISAU	20	9				3	8
		JHUNJHUNU	45	15				16	14
		PILANI	25	6					19
16	JODHPUR	JODHPUR	65	38				19	5
		PHALODI	30	17				12	1
17	KOTA	KAITHOON	20	8				12
		KOTA	65	53				6	6
		SANGOD	20	18					2
18	NAGAUR	DIDWANA	30	16				6	8
		MAKRANA	40	3				18	19
19	PALI	PALI	50	24				17	9
		SUMERPUR	25	17				3	5
20	SIKAR	NEEM KA THANA	25	9				15	1
		SIKAR	50	17			1	26	6
21	SIROHI	Mt ABU	20	11				6	3
		PINDWARA	20	15				2	3
		SHIVGANJ	25	17				6	2
		SIROHI	25	14				8	3
22	RAJSAMAND	AMET	20	16				4
		NATHDWARA	30	22				8
23	TONK	TONK	45	18				22	5
24	UDAIPUR	KANOD	15	8				2	5
		UDAIPUR	55	49		1		3	2
		TOTAL	1696	930	4	2	1	444	312

 

Rajasthan Municipal Elections – Result & Dates

 

Event	Date
Date of Issue of Notification	11/07/14
Last date of making nomination	11/11/14
Date of Scrutiny	11/12/14
Last date of withdrawal	11/14/14
Date of Poll	11/22/14
Date of Counting	11/25/14
Date of Completion of Election	12/29/14

 

Rajasthan General Elections – 2014

 
The date and schedule for the general elections in Rajasthan are as below:

Phase 5
No of PCs going to poll 20	(PC no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
Issue of Notification	19 Mar 14 (Wed)
Last Date for filing Nominations	26 Mar 14 (Wed)
Scrutiny of Nominations	27 Mar 14 (Thu)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	29 Mar 14 (Sat)
Date of Poll	17 Apr 14 (Thu)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be Completed	28 May 14 (Wed)
Phase 6
No of PCs going to poll 5	(PC no. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
Issue of Notification	29 Mar 14 (Sat)
Last Date for filing Nominations	05 Apr 14 (Sat)
Scrutiny of Nominations	07 Apr 14 (Mon)
Last date for withdrawal of Candidature	09 Apr 14 (Wed)
Date of Poll	24 Apr 14 (Thu)
Counting of Votes	16 May 14 (Fri)
Date before which the election shall be Completed	28 May 14 (Wed)

List of Parliamentary Constituencies in Rajasthan

P.C. No.	P.C. Name	P.C. No.	P.C. Name	P.C. No.	P.C. Name
1	Ganganagar (SC)	10	Bayana (SC)	18	Udaipur
2	Bikaner	11	Sawai Madhopur (ST)	19	Chittorgarh
3	Churu	12	Ajmer	20	Bhilwara
4	Jhunjhunu	13	Tonk (SC)	21	Pali
5	Sikar	14	Kota	22	Jalore (SC)
6	Jaipur	15	Jhalawar	23	Barmer
7	Dausa	16	Banswara (ST)	24	Jodhpur
8	Alwar	17	Salumber (ST)	25	Nagaur
9	Bharatpur

Political parties in the state

The state of Rajasthan is influenced both by national and regional level parties:
NC – Indian National Congress
BJP – Bharatiya Janata Party
CPIM – Communist Party of India, Marxist
BSP – Bahujan Samaj Party
CPI – Communist Party of India
NCP – Nationalist Congress Party
The regional parties are:
INLD – Indian National Lok Dal
JD(U) – Janata Dal (United)
JD(S) – Janata Dal (Secular)
RLD – Rashtriya Lok Dal
AIFB – All India Forward Bloc
CPI (ML) (L) – Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
SP – Samajwadi Party
SHS – Shivsens
Lok Jan Shakti Party
Rajasthan Samajik Naya Manch

 

Administration Process

The state of Rajasthan is run by the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister. The constitutional head of the state is Governor and he is appointed by the President of India. All the executive powers lies in the hands of the chief minister. For better administration, the state is divided into 33 districts. It has a unicameral Legislature with a Legislative Assembly which has a term of five years.

 

List of Chief Ministers of Rajasthan

Sr.no.	Chief Ministers Name	From	To	Party Name
1	Heera Lal Shastri	Apr 7, 1949	Jan 5, 1951	INC
2	C S Venkatachari	Jan 6, 1951	Apr 25, 1951	INC
3	Jai Narayan Vyas	Apr 26, 1951	Mar 3, 1952	INC
4	Tika Ram Paliwal	Mar 3, 1952	Oct 31, 1952	INC
5	Jai Narayan Vyas	Nov 1, 1952	Nov 12, 1954	INC
6	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Nov 13, 1954	Apr 11, 1957	INC
7	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Apr 11, 1957	Mar 11, 1962	INC
8	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Mar 12, 1962	Mar 13, 1967	INC
	President’s rule	Mar 13, 1967	Apr 26, 1967
9	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Apr 26, 1967	Jul 9, 1971	INC
10	Barkatullah Khan	Jul 9, 1971	Aug 11, 1973	INC
11	Hari Dev Joshi	Aug 11, 1973	Apr 29, 1977	INC
	President’s rule	Apr 29, 1977	Jun 22, 1977
12	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Jun 22, 1977	Feb 16, 1980	JP
13	Jagannath Pahadia	Jun 6, 1980	Jul 13, 1981	INC
14	Shiv Charan Mathur	Jul 14, 1981	Feb 23, 1985	INC
15	Hira Lal Devpura	Feb 23, 1985	Mar 10, 1985	INC
16	Hari Dev Joshi	Mar 10, 1985	Jan 20, 1988	INC
17	Shiv Charan Mathur	Jan 20, 1988	Dec 4, 1989	INC
18	Hari Dev Joshi	Dec 4, 1989	Mar 4, 1990	INC
19	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Mar 4, 1990	Dec 15, 1992	BJP
	President’s rule	Dec 15, 1992	Dec 4, 1993
20	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Dec 4, 1993	Nov 29, 1998	BJP
21	Ashok Gehlot	Dec 1, 1998	Dec 8, 2003	INC
22	Vasundhara Raje Scindia	Dec 8, 2003	Dec 11, 2008	BJP
23	Ashok Gehlot	Dec 12, 2008	Dec 13, 2013	INC
24	Vasundhara Raje Scindia	Dec 13, 2013	Present	BJP

List of Governors of Rajasthan

Sr.no.	Governors Name	From	To
1	Gurumukh Nihal Singh	Nov 1, 1956	Apr 16, 1962
2	Sampurnanand	Apr 16, 1962	Apr 16, 1967
3	Sardar Hukam Singh	Apr 16, 1967	Jul 1, 1972
4	Sardar Jogendra Singh	Jul 1, 1972	Feb 15, 1977
5	Vedpal Tyagi (acting)	Feb 15, 1977	May 11, 1977
6	Raghukul Tilak	May 17, 1977	Aug 8, 1981
7	K.D. Sharma (acting)	Aug 8, 1981	Mar 6, 1982
8	Om Prakash Mehra	Mar 6, 1982	Jan 4, 1985
9	Vasantrao Patil	Nov 20, 1985	Oct 15, 1987
10	Sukhdev Prasad	Feb 20, 1988	Feb 3, 1990
11	Milap Chand Jain (acting)	Feb 3, 1990	Feb 14, 1990
12	Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya	Feb 14, 1990	Aug 26, 1991
13	Swarup Singh (acting)	Aug 26, 1991	Feb 5, 1992
14	Marri Chenna Reddy	Feb 5, 1992	May 31, 1993
15	Dhanik Lal Mandal (additional charge)	May 31, 1993	Jun 30, 1993
16	Bali Ram Bhagat	Jun 30, 1993	May 1, 1998
17	Darbara Singh	May 1, 1998	May 24, 1998
18	Navrang Lal Tibrewal (acting)	May 25, 1998	Jan 16, 1999
19	Anshuman Singh	Jan 16, 1999	May 14, 2003
20	Nirmal Chandra Jain	May 14, 2003	Sep 22, 2003
21	Kailashpati Mishra (additional charge)	Sep 22, 2003	Jan 14, 2004
22	Madan Lal Khurana	Jan 14, 2004	Nov 1, 2004
23	T. V. Rajeswar (additional charge)	Nov 1, 2004	Nov 8, 2004
24	Pratibha Patil	Nov 8, 2004	Jun 21, 2007
25	Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge)	Jun 21, 2007	Sep 6, 2007
26	S. K. Singh	Sep 6, 2007	Dec 1, 2009
27	Prabha Rau	Dec 2, 2009	Apr 26, 2010
28	Shivraj Patil (additional charge)	Apr 26, 2010	Apr 28, 2012
29	Margaret Alva	Apr 28, 2012	Present