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

Overall result[edit | edit source]

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
25 February 1978	Andhra Pradesh		Indian National Congress (R)	Jalagam Vengala Rao	Indian National Congress (I)	Marri Channa Reddy	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
	Arunachal Pradesh	New State was created			Janata Party	Prem Khandu Thungan	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
	Assam		Indian National Congress	Sarat Chandra Sinha	Janata Party	Golap Borbora
	Karnataka		President's Rule		Indian National Congress (I)	D. Devaraj Urs
	Meghalaya		All Party Hill Leaders Conference	Williamson A. Sangma	All Party Hill Leaders Conference	Darwin Diengdoh Pugh
25 February 1978	Maharashtra		Indian National Congress	Vasantdada Patil	Indian National Congress (I)	Vasantdada Patil
25 February 1978	Maharashtra		Indian National Congress (U)	Vasantdada Patil		Vasantdada Patil
17 and 20 May 1978	Mizoram		Mizo Union (contested as Independent)	C. Chhunga	Mizoram People's Conference	T. Sailo

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

PARTY ^[1]	SEATS			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%
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[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
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	Janata Party	66,906	42.08	17	New
	People's Party of Arunachal	48,075	30.24	8	New
	Indian National Congress	720	0.45	0	New
	Independents	43,287	27.23	5	New
Total		158,988	100.00	30	New

Valid votes		158,988	96.60
Invalid/blank votes		5,599	3.40
Total votes		164,587	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		224,839	73.20
Source: ECI^[2]

Assam[edit | edit source]

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	SUC	Registered	4	0	0.07	2.29
12	Independent	IND			15	25.67	26.50
	Total				126
Source: Statistical Report on Legislative Assembly election of Assam, 1978

Karnataka[edit | edit source]

e • d
Political Party	Contestants	Seats won	Seat change	Number of votes	Vote share	Net change
Indian National Congress (Indira)	214	149		5,543,756	44.25%
Janata Party	222	59		4,754,114	37.95%
Communist Party of India	6	3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	148,567	1.19%
Indian National Congress	212	2		1,001,553	7.99%
Republican Party of India	3	1		22,443	0.18%
Independents		10	10	940,677	7.51%	N/A
Total		224

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

e • d
Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Seat change
Janata Party	215	99	5,701,399	27.99%	99
Indian National Congress	259	69	5,159,828	25.33%	159
Indian National Congress (Indira)	203	62	3,735,308	18.34%	62
Peasants and Workers Party of India	88	13	1,129,172	5.54%	6
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	12	9	345,008	1.69%	8
All India Forward Bloc	6	3	166,497	0.82%	1
Republican Party of India	25	2	215,487	1.06%	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Republican Party of India (Khobragade)	23	2	287,533	1.41%	2
Communist Party of India	48	1	301,056	1.48%	1
Independents	894	28	2,864,023	14.06%	5
Total	1819	288	20,367,221	100%

Meghalaya[edit | edit source]

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	109,654	28.96	19.07	20	11
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (APHLC)	94,362	24.92	10.75	16	16
	Hill State People's Democratic Party (HSPDP)	72,852	19.24		14^[a]
	Indian National Congress (I)	5,447	1.44		0
	Communist Party of India	2,361	0.62	0.05	0	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
	Independents (IND)	93,970	24.82	29.04	10^[b]	9

Total		378,646	100.00		60	±0
Source: Election Commission of India^[3]

^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.^[4]

^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.^[5]

Mizoram[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
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	Mizoram People's Conference	52,640	37.47	22	22
	Independents	87,830	62.53	8	16
Total		140,470	100.00	30	0

Valid votes		140,470	98.71
Invalid/blank votes		1,838	1.29
Total votes		142,308	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		224,936	63.27
Source: ECI^[6]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Election Results, 1978, Andhra Pradesh". Archived from the original on 15 May 2019.
↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1978 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Meghalaya 1978". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
↑ Warjri, Antarwell (March 2017). "Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya" (PDF). International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies. 3 (5): 206–218. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
↑ Gupta, Susmita Sen (2005). Regionalism in Meghalaya. South Asian Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 978-81-7003-288-5.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

External links[edit | edit source]

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

[1] "Election Results, 1978, Andhra Pradesh". Archived from the original on 15 May 2019.

[eci-2] Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1978 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH Archived 27 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Meghalaya 1978". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 March 2020.

[4] Warjri, Antarwell (March 2017). "Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya" (PDF). International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies. 3 (5): 206–218. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2022.

[5] Gupta, Susmita Sen (2005). Regionalism in Meghalaya. South Asian Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 978-81-7003-288-5.

[6] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

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