In 1971, he ran for and won an open Assembly seat.
They won 18 out of a possible 294 assembly seats.
In the following year, 1997, it won a single Assembly seat while taking 1% of the vote.
They will need about 30,000 votes to win one assembly seat.
In that time he also lost a primary race for an Assembly seat.
It won 31 of the 32 assembly seats in the 2004 election.
"They feel that maybe they'll get lucky and win the Assembly seat."
The elections were held in the state for all 60 Assembly seats on 2009-10-13.
It managed to hold on to only 61 assembly seats.
His first stint at politics was in year 1999 from same assembly seat, which he lost.