Election officials initially declared that the long ruling Communist Party had won re-election in April.
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Deputy Attorney General Steve Wood said Johnson is the first of 16 juvenile offenders serving life sentences in Delaware who will have to be re-sentenced because of that ruling.
The five governors affected by the ruling had all won re-run elections a year after their initial victories in 2007 were annulled because of irregularities.
BJP-JD(U) alliance, which encompasses the southern state of Karnataka as well, could be the central partnership of the ruling coalition if it is re-elected.