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->MPGuy2824: Created page by copying relevant sections from 1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election and 1978 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election. See those pages' histories for attribution.

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Created page by copying relevant sections from 1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election and 1978 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election. See those pages' histories for attribution.

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{{Short description|Elections in India in 1978}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Politics of India}}

'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1978'' included elections to seven state legislative assemblies.

==Legislative Assembly elections==
===Andhra Pradesh===
{{Main|1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable"
|'''PARTY <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Election Results, 1978, Andhra Pradesh|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/4047-andhra-pradesh-1978/|url-status=live}}</ref>'''
| colspan="3" |'''SEATS'''
| colspan="2" |'''VOTES POLLED'''
|'''VOTE % IN'''
|-
|'''NATIONAL PARTIES'''
|'''CONTESTED'''
|'''WON'''
|'''FD'''
|'''VOTES'''
|'''%'''
|'''SEATS'''
|-
|1. '''CPI'''
|31
|6
|12
|501452
|2.49%
|23.40%
|-
|2. '''CPM'''
|22
|8
|1
|546262
|2.71%
|34.65%
|-
|3. '''INC'''
|257
|30
|130
|3426850
|17.01%
|19.48%
|-
|4 . '''INC(I)'''
|290
|175
|18
|7908220
|39.25%
|39.69%
|-
|5 . '''JNP'''
|270
|60
|36
|5812532
|28.85%
|31.52%
|-
|'''STATE PARTIES'''
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|6. '''ADK'''
|9
|0
|9
|38691
|0.19%
|6.22%
|-
|7. '''DMK'''
|2
|0
|2
|6547
|0.03%
|4.12%
|-
| colspan="7" |'''REGISTERED (Unrecognised) PARTIES'''
|-
|8. '''BCM'''
|2
|0
|2
|2123
|0.01%
|1.53%
|-
|9. '''RPI'''
|1
|0
|1
|500
|0.00%
|0.69%
|-
|10 . '''RPK'''
|13
|0
|11
|53497
|0.27%
|6.03%
|-
|11 . '''RRP'''
|1
|0
|1
|611
|0.00%
|1.06%
|-
|'''INDEPENDENTS'''
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|12. '''IND'''
|640
|15
|593
|1852808
|9.20%
|11.35%
|-
|'''Grand Total :'''
|'''1538'''
|'''294'''
|'''816'''
|'''20150093'''
|
|
|}
===Arunachal Pradesh===
{{Main|1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

===Assam===
{{Main|1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Sl No ||Party||Abbreviation||Party-type||Contested|| Won ||Votes polled %|| Vote % in seats contested
|-
| 1|| [[Communist Party of India]]||CPI||National || 35 ||5 || 4.09 ||14.39
|-
| 2||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist) ]]||CPM|| National || 27 || 11 ||5.62 ||25.87
|-
| 3|| [[Indian National Congress]]||INC|| National || 126 || 26 ||23.62||23.62
|-
| 4||[[Indian National Congress (I)]]||INC(I) || National || 115 ||8||8.78||9.84
|-
| 5|| [[Janata Party]]||JNP||National ||117||53||27.55||29.95
|-
| 6|| [[All India Forward Bloc]]||FBL||State||3 ||0||0.09 ||4.28
|-
| 7|| [[Plain Tribals Council of Assam]]||PTC|| State ||9||4||2.60 ||32.54
|-
| 8|| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) ]]||RSP|| State ||6||0 || 0.44||8.85
|-
| 9|| [[All India Gorkha League ]]||IGL||Registered||1||0 ||0.04 ||6.08
|-
| 10|| [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]||RCI|| Registered ||10||4||1.40 ||17.68
|-
| 11||[[ Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | Socialist Unity Centre of India]]||SUC|| Registered ||4||0||0.07 ||2.29
|-
| 12||Independent||IND|| || ||15|| 25.67||26.50
|-
| ||'''Total'''|||| || ||'''126'''|| ||
|-
|align=left colspan=8|Source: [https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3996-assam-1978/ Statistical Report on Legislative Assembly election of Assam, 1978]
|}

===Karnataka===
{{Main|1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1978/Statistical%20Report%20Karnataka%201978.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Contestants 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change 
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]||214||149||||5,543,756||44.25%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party]]||222||59||||4,754,114||37.95%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||6||3||{{steady}}||148,567||1.19%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||212||2||||1,001,553||7.99%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India]]||3||1||||22,443||0.18%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||||10||{{decrease}} 10||940,677||7.51%||''N/A''
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||||'''224'''||||''''''||||
|-
|}

===Maharashtra===
{{Main|1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1978/Statistical_Report_1978_Maharashtra.pdf |title=Key Highlights of General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] }}</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party]]||215||99||5,701,399||27.99%||{{increase}} 99
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||259||69||5,159,828||25.33%||{{decrease}} 159
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]||203||62||3,735,308||18.34%||{{increase}} 62
|-
| {{party color cell|Peasants and Workers Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Peasants and Workers Party of India]]||88||13||1,129,172||5.54%||{{increase}} 6
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||12||9||345,008||1.69%||{{increase}} 8
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Forward Bloc}}
|align="left"|[[All India Forward Bloc]]||6||3||166,497||0.82%||{{increase}} 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India]]||25||2||215,487||1.06%||{{nochange}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India (Khobragade)]]||23||2||287,533||1.41%||{{increase}} 2
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||48||1||301,056||1.48%||{{decrease}} 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||894||28||2,864,023||14.06%||{{increase}} 5
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||1819||288||20,367,221||100%||
|-
|}

===Meghalaya===
{{Main|1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="2"| Seats
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
!Votes
!%
!±[[Percentage point|pp]]
!Won
!+/−
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| align="left"| [[Indian National Congress]] (INC)
| 109,654 || 28.96 ||19.07 {{Increase}}
| 20 || 11 {{Increase}}
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}"|
| align="left" |[[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] (APHLC)
|94,362
|24.92
|10.75 {{Decrease}}
|16
|16 {{Decrease}}
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HSPDP)
|72,852
|19.24
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
|14{{ref label|alpha|a}}
| bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
| align="left" |[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
| 5,447 || 1.44

| bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 0

| bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| align="left" |[[Communist Party of India]]
|2,361
|0.62
|0.05 {{Increase}}
|0
|{{Steady}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |
| align="left" |[[Independent (politician)|Independents]] (IND)
| 93,970 || 24.82 ||29.04 {{Decrease}}
| 10{{ref label|beta|b}} ||9 {{Decrease}}
|-
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total
| 378,646 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 60 || ±0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |Source: [[Election Commission of India]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3670-meghalaya-1978/|title=Meghalaya 1978|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref>
|}
{{note label|alpha|a}} The HSPDP won 8 seats in the 1972 election, but the party's representatives were recorded as independents at the time of that election.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Warjri |first=Antarwell |date=March 2017 |title=Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya |url=https://www.ijhsss.com/files/19.-Antarwell-Warjri.pdf |journal=International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=206–218}}</ref>

{{note label|beta|b}}Two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gupta|first=Susmita Sen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRWKAAAAMAAJ|title=Regionalism in Meghalaya|date=2005|publisher=South Asian Publishers|isbn=978-81-7003-288-5|pages=118|language=en}}</ref>

===Mizoram===
{{Main|1978 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Mizoram Legislative Assembly 1978.svg]]
|party1=[[Mizoram People's Conference]]|votes1=52640|seats1=22|sc1={{increase}}22
|party2=[[Independent (politics)|Independents]]|votes2=87830|seats2=8|sc2={{decrease}}16
|total_sc=0
|valid=140470
|invalid=1838
|electorate=224936
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3655-mizoram-1978/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 13 July 2021}}</ref>
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External Links==
* {{cite web |url=https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/statistical-reports/ |title=Election Results - Full Statistical Reports |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}

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