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{{Short description|Elections in India in 1983}}
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{{Politics of India}}

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

==Legislative Assembly elections==
===Andhra Pradesh===
{{Main|1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! 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|1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election}}

===Delhi===
{{Main|1983 Delhi Metropolitan Council election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1983<ref name="eci-delhi">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1983/StatisticalReportDelhi_83.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1983 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF DELHI]''</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 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||56||34||856,055||47.50%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||50||19||666,605||36.99%
|-
| {{party color cell|Lok Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Lok Dal]]||6||2||73,765||4.09%
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party]]||37||1||65,980||3.66%
|-
|
! Total !! 400 !! 56 !! 1,802,118 !!
|-
|}
===Jammu and Kashmir===
{{Main|1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election}}

===Karnataka===
{{Main|1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1983<ref name=eci-karnataka>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1983/Statistical%20Report%201983%20karnatkaa.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 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" |Seats Contested 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Won 
!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]]||193||95||4,272,318||33.07%||{{increase}} 36
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||221||82||5,221,419||40.42%||{{decrease}} 67
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||110||18||1,024,892||7.93%||{{increase}} 18
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||7||3||161,192||1.25%||{{nochange}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||4||3||115,320||0.89%||{{increase}} 3
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
|align="left"|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]||1||1||16,234||0.13%||{{increase}} 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||751||22||1,998,256||15.47%||{{increase}} 12
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||'''1365'''||'''224'''||12,919,459||||
|-
|}
===Meghalaya===
{{Main|1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ [[1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|←]] Summary of the 17 February 1983 [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly]] election results [[1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|→]]
|-
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="485"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="2"| Seats
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
! width="70"| Votes
! width="45"| %
! width="50"| ±[[Percentage point|pp]]
! width="30"| Won
! width="30"| +/−
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| align="left"| [[Indian National Congress]] (INC)
| 130,956 || 27.68 ||1.64 {{Decrease}}
| 25 || 5 {{Increase}}
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}"|
| align="left" |[[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] (AHL)
|118,593
|24.92
|0.15 {{Increase}}
|15
|1 {{Decrease}}
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HDP)
|91,386
|19.32
|0.08 {{Increase}}
|15
|1 {{Increase}}
|-
|
|align="left" |[[Public Demands Implementation Convention|Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)]]
|23,253
|4.92
|bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
|2
|{{Steady}} {{ref label|alpha|a}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| align="left" |[[Communist Party of India]]
|2,442
|0.52
|0.1 {{Decrease}}
|0
|{{Steady}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |
| align="left" |[[Independent (politician)|Independents]] (IND)
| 106,378 || 22.49 ||2.33 {{Decrease}}
| 3 ||5 {{Decrease}}{{ref label|beta|b}}
|-
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total
| 473,050 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 60 || ±0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |Source: [[Election Commission of India]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3672-meghalaya-1983/|title=Meghalaya 1983|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=2 April 2020}}</ref>
|}
{{note label|alpha|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.<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>

{{note label|beta|b}}Does not include the two PDIC candidates elected as independents in 1978.

===Tripura===
{{Main|1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ 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 (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
| 2
| 2
| 15,218
| 1.64%
| 2
|-
| [[Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti]]
| 14
| 6
| 97,039
| 10.47%
| 4
|-
| [[Independent (politician)|Independents]]
| 75
| 3
| 82,443
| 8.89%
| 2
|-
! Total
! 206
! 60
! 927,006
!
!
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3302-tripura-1983/|title=1983 Tripura Election result}}</ref>
==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}

==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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