Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India.
It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Important members Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress,
Sasaram, Bihar Deputy Speaker: Kariya Munda, Bharatiya Janata
Party, Khunti, Jharkhand Leader of the House: Sushil Kumar Shinde,
Indian National Congress, Solapur, Maharashtra Leader of the Opposition: Sushma Swaraj, Bharatiya
Janata Party, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh Secretary General:
P.D.T. Acharya T. K. Viswanathan
Number of members by alliance in Lok Sabha
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha by political party and alliance:
List of members by political party Members by political party in 15th Lok Sabha
are given below-
Cabinet
United Progressive Alliance Cabinet by party Source: Various news organisations
The new United Progressive Alliance included 79 members, 78 members in the cabinet plus
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The first 20 cabinet ministers including Manmohan Singh,
swore in on 22 May 2009, while the other 59 cabinet members swore in on 27 May 2009. The
5 non-Congress cabinet ministers, include M.K. Azhagiri from the DMK. Mukul Roy from
Trinamool Congress, Sharad Pawar from Nationalist Congress Party and Farooq Abdullah from National
Conference represent the other non-Congress cabinet ministers.
United Progressive Alliance cabinet by states Source: The Hindu
MoS - Ministers of State with Independent charge
Related members Members from same family elected in 15th Lok
Sabha: Mother - Son
Sonia Gandhi - Rahul Gandhi Maneka Gandhi - Varun Gandhi
Father - Son Ajit Singh - Jayant Chaudhary
H. D. Deve Gowda - H. D. Kumaraswamy Sisir Adhikari - Suvendu Adhikari
Father - Daughter Sharad Pawar - Supriya Sule
Father-in-law - Son-in-law Farooq Abdullah - Sachin Pilot
Father-in-law - Daughter-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav - Dimple Yadav
By-Elections On November 2009, Raj Babbar of Indian National
Congress got elected from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. Seat was vacant as Akhilesh Yadav
of Samajwadi Party resigned from this seat keeping the Kannauj Seat as he had contested
from both and had to drop one seat. On 13 May 2011, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of YSR
Congress got elected from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. He resigned his seat, when he resigned from
Indian National Congress. He contested that seat again won by 545,000 votes.
Elections were held on 13 October 2011 for the Hissar Lok Sabha seat due to the death
of Bhajan Lal. The HJC-BJP alliance, represented by Kuldeep Bishnoi s/o Bhajan Lal, won the
election. On 3 May 2012, Akhilesh Yadav resigned from
the Kannauj seat, to serve as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, after Samajwadi Party won
Assembly Elections. His wife, Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed from the seat in the
bye-elections. On 13 October 2012 results of by-elections
to Tehri Garhwal in Uttarakhand and Jangipur in West Bengal were declared. The incumbent
MP of Tehri Vijay Bahuguna had resigned upon being elected to the Uttarakhand state assembly
and becoming Chief Minister, while the MP from Jangipur, Pranab Mukherjee, had ceased
to be an MP upon election as the President Of India, thus necessitating the by-elections.
In Tehri, Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah of BJP won the seat while Abhijit Mukherjee retained
the Jangipur seat as Congress nominee. References
External links Lok Sabha website
List of winning candidates published by election commission of india on 17 May 2009.
Tracking activity of MPs in Parliament