"International Journal of Geography, Geology and Environment"

India is the world’s most populous democracy. Democracy is a form of government in which political decision makers are elected directly by the entire body of adult population of a country. In this paper, the main objective of the study is to examine the spatial pattern of the electoral performance of the national and state parties in India in the parliamentary election, 2009. In the present study, the electoral analysis has been carried out for the India as whole for the Parliamentary Election, 2009. The source of data for the Parliamentary Election, 2009 is election commission of India, New Delhi. The Parliamentary constituencies have been selected as the unit of analysis and the analysis was carried for all 543 parliamentary constituencies. The electoral performance of national and state parties was taken for the analysis. The total vote polled percent in 2009 election was 58.21. The national party performance declined in the last two decades and state parties had emerged at all India level, and they played a very important role in the formation of government in last two decades. On the basis, it appears that the state parties improved their position in terms of seats and vote polled. They played important role in the government formation and alliance formation at both levels - the state and the centre.