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{{Short description|Elections in India in 1983}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name    = Elections in India
| country          = India
| previous_election = 1982 elections in India
| previous_year    = 1982
| election_date    = 1983
| next_election    = 1984 elections in India
| next_year        = 1984
}}
{{Politics of India}}
{{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]].


'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1983'' included elections to six state legislative assemblies and to seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]].
==Overall result==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Date(s)
!State
!colspan="2"|Government before
!Chief Minister before
! colspan="2"|Government after
!Elected Chief Minister
!Maps
|-
|
| [[1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Karnataka]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[R. Gundu Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
| [[Ramakrishna Hegde]]
| [[File:IN-KA.svg|50px]]
|-
|17 February 1983
|[[1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election|Meghalaya]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Williamson A. Sangma]]
|{{Full party name with color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}
|[[B. B. Lyngdoh]]
|[[File:IN-ML.svg|50px]]
|-
|14–20 February 1983
| [[1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election|Assam]]
| bgcolor="#000000" |
| colspan="2" align="center" |[[President's rule|President's Rule]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[Hiteswar Saikia]]
|[[File:IN-AS.svg|50px]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|1 May 1983
|[[1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Andhra Pradesh]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy]]
|{{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|[[N. T. Rama Rao]]
|[[File:IN-AP.svg|50px]]
|-
|[[1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election|Tripura]]
| {{Party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
| align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Nripen Chakraborty]]
| {{Party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
| align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Nripen Chakraborty]]
|[[File:IN-TR.svg|50px]]
|-
|17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983
|[[1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|{{Full party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir National Conference}}
|[[Farooq Abdullah]]
|{{Full party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir National Conference}}
|[[Farooq Abdullah]]
|[[File:IN-JK.svg|50px]]
|-
|}


==Legislative Assembly elections==
==Legislative Assembly elections==
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===Assam===
===Assam===
{{Main|1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Main|1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Assam Legislative Assembly 1983.svg]]
|party1=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes1=1194657|seats1=91|sc1=+65
|party2=[[Indian Congress (Socialist)]]|votes2=137685|seats2=4|sc2=New
|party3=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]|votes3=116923|seats3=2|sc3=–9
|party4=[[Plain Tribals Council of Assam]]|votes4=106084|seats4=1|sc4=–3
|party5=[[Communist Party of India]]|votes5=58746|seats5=1|sc5=–4
|party21=Independents|votes21=659995|seats21=10|sc21=–5
|total_sc=–21
|invalid=111100
|electorate=7284612
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eci.gov.in/files/file/3998-assam-1983/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=10 February 2022}}</ref>
}}


===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"|<!-- color -->
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br>
|-
| {{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===
===Jammu and Kashmir===
{{Main|1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Main|1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly 1983.svg]]
|party1=[[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference]]|votes1=1039064|seats1=46|sc1={{decrease}}1
|party2=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes2=666112|seats2=26|sc2={{increase}}15
|party3=[[Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference]]|votes3=100622|seats3=1|sc3=New
|party20=Others|votes20=170415|seats20=0|sc20=0
|party21=Independents|votes21=220904|seats21=2|sc21={{decrease}}2
|total_sc={{decrease}}1
|invalid=74692
|electorate=3101665
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3792-jammu-kashmir-1983/ |title=Jammu & Kashmir 1983 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=22 June 2022}}</ref>
}}


===Karnataka===
===Karnataka===
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|+ [[1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|←]] Summary of the 17 February 1983 [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly]] election results [[1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|→]]
|+ [[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
! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="485"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="2"| Seats
! colspan="2"| Seats
|- bgcolor="#E9E9E9" align="center"
|-
! width="70"| Votes
! width="70"| Votes
! width="45"| %
! width="45"| %
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! width="30"| +/−
! width="30"| +/−
|-
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| align="left"| [[Indian National Congress]] (INC)
| align="left"| [[Indian National Congress]] (INC)
| 130,956 || 27.68 ||1.64 {{Decrease}}
| 130,956 || 27.68 ||1.64 {{Decrease}}
| 25 || 5 {{Increase}}
| 25 || 5 {{Increase}}
|-
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}"|
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}"|
| align="left" |[[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] (AHL)
| align="left" |[[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] (AHL)
|118,593
|118,593
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|1 {{Decrease}}
|1 {{Decrease}}
|-
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}"|
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HDP)
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HDP)
|91,386
|91,386
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|23,253
|23,253
|4.92
|4.92
|bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|2
|2
|{{Steady}} {{ref label|alpha|a}}
|{{Steady}} {{ref label|alpha|a}}
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| 60 || ±0
| 60 || ±0
|-
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |<small>Source: [[Election Commission of India]]</small><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>
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |<small>Source: [[Election Commission of India]]</small><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://old.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}}<small>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.</small><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|alpha|a}}<small>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.</small><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>
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|+ Performance of the political parties in this election
|+ Performance of the political parties in this election
! Party  
! Party  
! Seats Contested
! Seats contested
! Seats Won
! Seats won
! No. of Votes
! No. of votes
! % of Votes
! % of votes
! 1977 Seats
! 1977 Seats
|-
|-
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!  
!  
!
!
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3302-tripura-1983/|title=1983 Tripura Election result}}</ref>
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3302-tripura-1983/|title=1983 Tripura Election result}}</ref>
 
==Local Elections==
===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"|<!-- color -->
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br>
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br>
|-
| {{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 !!
|-
|}
 
==Rajya Sabha==
==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}
{{Main|1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}
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{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}


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


{{Indian elections}}
{{Indian elections}}


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[[Category:State Assembly elections in India]]
[[Category:1983 in India]]
[[Category:1983 in Indian politics]]
[[Category:Elections in India by year]]

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

Overall result[edit | edit source]

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 Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Tripura Communist Party of India (Marxist) Nripen Chakraborty Communist Party of India (Marxist) Nripen Chakraborty Error creating thumbnail: File missing
17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983 Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Farooq Abdullah Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Farooq Abdullah Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Main article: 1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Indian National Congress1,194,65752.5391+65
Indian Congress (Socialist)137,6856.054New
Communist Party of India (Marxist)116,9235.142–9
Plain Tribals Council of Assam106,0844.661–3
Communist Party of India58,7462.581–4
Independents659,99529.0210–5
Total2,274,090100.00109–21
Valid votes2,274,09095.34
Invalid/blank votes111,1004.66
Total votes2,385,190100.00
Registered voters/turnout7,284,61232.74
Source: ECI[1]

Jammu and Kashmir[edit | edit source]

Main article: 1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference1,039,06447.2946Decrease1
Indian National Congress666,11230.3226Increase15
Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference100,6224.581New
Others170,4157.7600
Independents220,90410.052Decrease2
Total2,197,117100.0075Decrease1
Valid votes2,197,11796.71
Invalid/blank votes74,6923.29
Total votes2,271,809100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,101,66573.24
Source: ECI[2]

Karnataka[edit | edit source]

Main article: 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
e • d 
Political Party
 Seats Contested
 Seats Won
 Number of Votes
 % of Votes
 Seat change
Janata Party 193 95 4,272,318 33.07% Increase 36
Indian National Congress 221 82 5,221,419 40.42% Decrease 67
Bharatiya Janata Party 110 18 1,024,892 7.93% Increase 18
Communist Party of India 7 3 161,192 1.25% Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4 3 115,320 0.89% Increase 3
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 1 1 16,234 0.13% Increase 1
Independents 751 22 1,998,256 15.47% Increase 12
Total 1365 224 12,919,459

Meghalaya[edit | edit source]

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 Decrease 25 5 Increase
All Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL) 118,593 24.92 0.15 Increase 15 1 Decrease
Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP) 91,386 19.32 0.08 Increase 15 1 Increase
Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC) 23,253 4.92 2 Error creating thumbnail: File missing [a]
Communist Party of India 2,442 0.52 0.1 Decrease 0 Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Independents (IND) 106,378 22.49 2.33 Decrease 3 5 Decrease[b]
Total 473,050 100.00 60 ±0
Source: Election Commission of India[3]

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.[4]

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

Tripura[edit | edit source]

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

[5]

Local Elections[edit | edit source]

Delhi[edit | edit source]

Main article: 1983 Delhi Metropolitan Council election
e • d 
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[edit | edit source]

Main article: 1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Jammu & Kashmir 1983". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "Meghalaya 1983". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ↑ Gupta, Susmita Sen (2005). Regionalism in Meghalaya. South Asian Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 978-81-7003-288-5.
  5. ↑ "1983 Tripura Election result".

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