1983 elections in India

Elections in India

1983

Elections in the Republic of India in 1983 included elections to six state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

Overall Result

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
	Karnataka		Indian National Congress	R. Gundu Rao		Janata Party	Ramakrishna Hegde
17 February 1983	Meghalaya		Indian National Congress	Williamson A. Sangma		All Party Hill Leaders Conference	B. B. Lyngdoh
14–20 February 1983	Assam		President's Rule			Indian National Congress	Hiteswar Saikia
1 May 1983	Andhra Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy		Telugu Desam Party	N. T. Rama Rao
	Tripura		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty
17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983	Jammu and Kashmir		Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	Farooq Abdullah		Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	Farooq Abdullah

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

Main article: 1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

s.no	party	seats contested	seats won	seats change	vote share	swing
1	Telugu Desam Party	289	202	+202	46.3%	+ 46.3%
2	Indian National Congress	294	60	-115	33.64%	-22.78%
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	28	5	-3	2.01%	-0.70%
4	Communist Party of India	48	6	+3	2.79%	+0.30%
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	81	3	+3	2.76%	+2.76%
6	Janata Party	44	1	-59	0.96%	-27.89%
7	others	1100	20	+5	5.00%	-4.20%

Assam

Main article: 1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	1,194,657	52.53	91	+65
	Indian Congress (Socialist)	137,685	6.05	4	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	116,923	5.14	2	–9
	Plain Tribals Council of Assam	106,084	4.66	1	–3
	Communist Party of India	58,746	2.58	1	–4
	Independents	659,995	29.02	10	–5
Total		2,274,090	100.00	109	–21
Valid votes		2,274,090	95.34
Invalid/blank votes		111,100	4.66
Total votes		2,385,190	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,284,612	32.74
Source: ECI

Jammu and Kashmir

Main article: 1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	1,039,064	47.29	46	1
	Indian National Congress	666,112	30.32	26	15
	Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference	100,622	4.58	1	New
	Others	170,415	7.76	0	0
	Independents	220,904	10.05	2	2
Total		2,197,117	100.00	75	1
Valid votes		2,197,117	96.71
Invalid/blank votes		74,692	3.29
Total votes		2,271,809	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,101,665	73.24
Source: ECI

Karnataka

Main article: 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election

Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1983

	Political Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Seat change
	Janata Party	193	95	4,272,318	33.07%	36
	Indian National Congress	221	82	5,221,419	40.42%	67
	Bharatiya Janata Party	110	18	1,024,892	7.93%	18
	Communist Party of India	7	3	161,192	1.25%
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	4	3	115,320	0.89%	3
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1	1	16,234	0.13%	1
	Independents	751	22	1,998,256	15.47%	12
	Total	1365	224	12,919,459

Meghalaya

Main article: 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election

← Summary of the 17 February 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	130,956	27.68	1.64	25	5
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL)	118,593	24.92	0.15	15	1
	Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP)	91,386	19.32	0.08	15	1
	Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)	23,253	4.92		2	[a]
	Communist Party of India	2,442	0.52	0.1	0
	Independents (IND)	106,378	22.49	2.33	3	5 [b]
Total		473,050	100.00		60	±0
Source: Election Commission of India

^a In the 1978 election, two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; at that time, the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.

^b Does not include the two PDIC candidates elected as independents in 1978.

Tripura

Main article: 1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Performance of the political parties in this election

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	1977 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	4	0	578	0.06%	-
Communist Party of India	1	0	7,657	0.83%	0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	56	37	433,608	46.78%	51
Indian Congress Secular	3	0	540	0.06%	-
Indian National Congress	45	12	282,859	30.51%	0
Janata Party	5	0	515	0.06%	0
All India Forward Block	1	0	6,549	0.71%	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	15,218	1.64%	2
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	14	6	97,039	10.47%	4
Independents	75	3	82,443	8.89%	2
Total	206	60	927,006

Local Elections

Delhi

Main article: 1983 Delhi Metropolitan Council election

Summary of results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1983

	Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes
	Indian National Congress	56	34	856,055	47.50%
	Bharatiya Janata Party	50	19	666,605	36.99%
	Lok Dal	6	2	73,765	4.09%
	Janata Party	37	1	65,980	3.66%
	Total	400	56	1,802,118

Rajya Sabha

Main article: 1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections

External links

• "Election Results - Full Statistical Reports". Election Commission of India.