15th Lok Sabha

During the tenure of the 15th Lok Sabha, 71% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination[4][5]

• Speaker: Meira Kumar, INC, Sasaram, Bihar
• Deputy Speaker: Kariya Munda, BJP, Khunti, Jharkhand
• Leader of the House: Pranab Mukherjee, INC, Jangipur, West Bengal (May, 2009 - 2012) (He went on to become the 13th President of India in 2012)

Sushil Kumar Shinde, INC, Solapur, Maharashtra (2012 - May, 2014)

• Leader of the Opposition: Sushma Swaraj, BJP, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
• Secretary General:
  • P.D.T. Achary[6]
  • T. K. Viswanathan

Number of members by the alliance in Lok Sabha

Seats of the 15th Lok Sabha

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha by political party and alliance:[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Alliances		Party	Seats	Leader
United Progressive Alliance 262		Indian National Congress	206	Sushil Kumar Shinde
		All India Trinamool Congress	19	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	18	T R Balu
		Nationalist Congress Party	9	Sharad Pawar
		Rashtriya Janata Dal	4	Lalu Prasad Yadav
		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	3
		Bodoland People's Front	1
		Indian Union Muslim League	2
National Democratic Alliance Seats: 167		Bharatiya Janata Party	117	Sushma Swaraj
		Janata Dal (United)	20
		Shiv Sena	11
		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	9
		Shiromani Akali Dal	4
		Bharat Rashtra Samithi	2	K. Chandrashekar Rao
		Asom Gana Parishad	1
		Haryana Janhit Congress	1
		Sikkim Democratic Front	1
		Bodoland People's Front	1
Third Front Seats: 75		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	15	Basudev Acharia
		Communist Party of India	4	Gurudas Dasgupta
		Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	Prasanta Kumar Majumdar
		All India Forward Bloc	2	Narahari Mahato
		Bahujan Samaj Party	21
		Biju Janata Dal	14
		Telugu Desam Party	6	Nama Nageswara Rao
		Janata Dal (Secular)	1
		Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1
Fourth Front Seats: 26		Samajwadi Party	22
		Rashtriya Janata Dal	4
Other Parties and Independents Seats: 21
		Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)	2
		YSR Congress Party	2	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
		Swabhimani Paksha	1
		Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi	1
		All India United Democratic Front	1
		All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	1
		Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	1
		Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1
		Independents	9
		Nominated	2
	Total			545

List of members by political party

Members by political party in 15th Lok Sabha are given below[14]-

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag	Number of MPs	Leader in Loksabha
1	Indian National Congress (INC)		222	Sushil Kumar Shinde
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		112	Sushma Swaraj
3	Samajwadi Party (SP)		21	Mulayam Singh Yadav
4	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		21	Dara Singh Chauhan
5	Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))		19	Ram Sundar Das
6	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		18	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
7	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)		18	T R Balu
8	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		16	Basudeb Acharia
9	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)		14	Arjun Charan Sethi
10	Shiv Sena (SS)		10	Anant Geete
11	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)		9	M. Thambidurai
12	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		8	Sharad Pawar
13	Independent (Ind.)		7
14	Telugu Desam Party (TDP)		6	Nama Nageswara Rao
15	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)		5
16	Communist Party of India (CPI)		4	Gurudas Dasgupta
17	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)		4	Rattan Singh Ajnala
18	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)		3
19	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)		3
20	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		2	Narahari Mahato
21	Muslim League Kerala State Committee (MLKSC)		2	E Ahamed
22	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)		2
23	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM(P))	Comb	2	Babu Lal Marandi
24	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (RSP)		2
25	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)		2	K. Chandrasekhar Rao
26	YSR Congress Party (YSRCP)		2	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
27	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)		1	Asaduddin Owaisi
28	All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF)		1	Badruddin Ajmal
29	Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)		1	Joseph Toppo
30	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA)		1	Baliram Sukur Jadhav
31	Bodoland People's Front (BPF)		1	Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary
32	Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) (HJC(BL))		1	Kuldeep Bishnoi
33	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))		1
34	Kerala Congress (Mani) (KC(M))		1	Jose K Mani
35	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)		1	A. Ganeshamurthi
36	Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)		1	Prem Das Rai
37	Swabhimani Paksha (SWP)		1	Raju Shetti
38	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C))		1	Tarun Mandal
39	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK)		1	Thol. Thirumavalavan
-	Vacant Constituencies		22[15]	-

The below list only covers seats whose vacancies were filled through by-elections. Conventionally, vacancies occurring with less than a year to go for the conclusion of the term, are generally left vacant for the remainder of the term. In the case of the 15th Lok Sabha, this means that by-elections would not have been held for vacancies post June 2013, with less than a year to go for the 2014 election. Only vacancies for which by-elections were held, i.e, occurring prior to May 2013, are mentioned here.

• A total of 19 by-elections across seats in 11 different states were held through the duration of the 15th Lok Sabha, with the first in November 2009 and the last in August 2013.
• 6 of these by-elections were necessitated by the death of the incumbent MP, and 13 due to resignation.
• Of the 13 resignations, 1 was for vacating a second seat, 6 for becoming Chief Ministers of different states, 1 for becoming President, 2 for becoming MLAs and 3 due to party defections.
• In May 2009, Firozabad fell vacant due to the resignation of Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav as he preferred to retain Kannauj after winning two seats in the 2009 election. Raj Babbar of Indian National Congress won the seat in the by-election.[22]
• In June 2010, Banka fell vacant due to the death of independent MP Digvijay Singh. His widow Putul Kumari won the seat as an independent in the by-election.
• In November 2010, Kadapa fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MP Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who also resigned his party membership. He contested the seat again in the by-elections on a YSR Congress Party ticket and won.
• In February 2011, Jamshedpur fell vacant due to the resignation of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Arjun Munda, as he became Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Ajoy Kumar of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) won the seat in the by-election.
• In March 2011, Bastar fell vacant due to the death of BJP MP Baliram Kashyap. His son Dinesh Kashyap of BJP won the seat in the by-election.
• In June 2011, Hisar fell vacant due to the death of Haryana Janhit Congress MP Bhajan Lal Bishnoi. His son Kuldeep Bishnoi of HJC won the seat in the by-election.
• In October 2011, Kolkata Dakshin fell vacant due to the resignation of All India Trinamool Congress MP Mamata Banerjee, as she became Chief Minister of West Bengal, after the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress won the seat in the by-election.
• In November 2011, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru fell vacant due to the resignation of BJP MP D. V. Sadananda Gowda, as he became Chief Minister of Karnataka. K. Jayaprakash Hegde of Congress won the seat in the by-election.
• In February 2012, Nellore fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MP Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, who also resigned his party membership. He contested the seat again in the by-elections on a YSR Congress Party ticket and won.
• In May 2012, Kannauj fell vacant due to the resignation of SP MP Akhilesh Yadav, as he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, after the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[23] His wife, Dimple Yadav of SP was elected unopposed from the seat in the by-elections.[24]
• In July 2012, Jangipur fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MP Pranab Mukherjee, who also resigned his party membership, as he became President of India, after his victory in the 2012 Indian presidential election. His son Abhijit Mukherjee of Congress won the seat in the by-election.
• In July 2012, Tehri Garhwal fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna, as he became Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, after the 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah of BJP won the seat in the by-election.
• In January 2013, Mandi fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MP Virbhadra Singh, as he became Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, after the 2012 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. His wife Pratibha Singh of Congress won the seat in the by-election.
• In January 2013, Porbandar fell vacant due the resignation of Congress MP Vitthalbhai Radadiya, as he became an MLA in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, after his victory from Dhoraji in the 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. However, he soon after resigned as MLA too, as well as his party membership. He contested the Lok Sabha seat again in the by-election on a BJP ticket and won.
• In January 2013, Maharajganj, Bihar fell vacant due to the death of Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Umashankar Singh. Prabhunath Singh of RJD won the seat in the by-election.
• In March 2013, Banaskantha fell vacant due to the death of Congress MP Mukesh Gadhvi. Haribhai Chaudhary of BJP won the seat in the by-election.
• In April 2013, Howrah fell vacant due to the death of Trinamool Congress MP Ambica Banerjee. Prasun Banerjee of Trinamool Congress, a retired football player-turned-politician, won the seat in the by-election.
• In May 2013, Mandya fell vacant due to the resignation of Janata Dal (Secular) MP N. Chaluvaraya Swamy, as he became an MLA in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, after his victory from Nagamangala in the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. Divya Spandana of Congress won the Lok Sabha seat in the by-election.
• In May 2013, Bengaluru Rural fell vacant due to the resignation of JDS MP H. D. Kumaraswamy, as he became an MLA in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, after his victory from Ramanagara in the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. D. K. Suresh of Congress won the Lok Sabha seat in the by-election.

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• Lok Sabha website
• List of winning candidates published by election commission of india on 17 May 2009.
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• "A legislative history of the 15th Lok Sabha" – The Hindu (April 8, 2015)