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Elections in the Republic of India in 1987 included elections to six state legislative assemblies, seats in the Rajya Sabha and the posts of President and vice president.

Overall Results[edit | edit source]

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
16 February 1987	Mizoram	Mizo National Front	Laldenga	Mizo National Front	Laldenga
23 March 1987	Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	Farooq Abdullah	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	Farooq Abdullah	Error creating thumbnail: File missing
23 March 1987	Kerala	United Democratic Front	K. Karunakaran	Left Democratic Front	E. K. Nayanar
10 April 1987	West Bengal	Left Front	Jyoti Basu	Left Front	Jyoti Basu
	Haryana	Indian National Congress	Bansi Lal	Lok Dal	Devi Lal
18 November 1987	Nagaland	Indian National Congress	Hokishe Sema	Indian National Congress	Hokishe Sema

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Haryana[edit | edit source]

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Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes
Lok Dal	69	60	2,349,397	38.58%
Bharatiya Janata Party	20	16	613,819	10.08%
Indian National Congress	0	5	1,776,820	29.18%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	4	1	47,434	0.78%
Communist Party of India	5	1	32,738	0.54%
Independents	1045	7	1,128,803	18.54%
Total	1322	90	6,089,130

Jammu and Kashmir[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
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	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	857,830	32.98	40	6
	Indian National Congress	525,261	20.20	26	0
	Bharatiya Janata Party	132,528	5.10	2	New
	Others	181,175	6.97	0	0
	Independents	903,971	34.76	8	6
Total		2,600,765	100.00	76	1

Valid votes		2,600,765	97.69
Invalid/blank votes		61,590	2.31
Total votes		2,662,355	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,555,549	74.88
Source: ECI^[1]

Kerala[edit | edit source]

**Party Wise Results^[2]**^[3]^[4]
Party	Seats
Communist Party of India (CPI)	16
Communist Party of Indian (Marxist) (CPM)	38
Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha) ICS(SCS)	6
Indian National Congress (INC)	33
Janta Party (JNP)	7
Lok Dal (LKD)	1
Kerala Congress (KEC)	5
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)	15
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)	5
Independent (IND)	14
Total	140

Mizoram[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Independents^{[lower-alpha 1]}	99,996	43.31	24	22
	Indian National Congress	76,152	32.99	13	7
	Mizoram People's Conference	54,717	23.70	3	5
Total		230,865	100.00	40	10

Valid votes		230,865	98.85
Invalid/blank votes		2,691	1.15
Total votes		233,556	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		322,066	72.52
Source: ECI^[5]

↑ Independents included the winning Mizo National Front candidates

Nagaland[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Indian National Congress	193,199	36.10	34	+10
	Naga National Democratic Party	140,112	26.18	18	–6
	Nagaland Peoples Front	43,782	8.18	1	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	926	0.17	0	New
	Independents	157,173	29.37	7	–5
Total		535,192	100.00	60	0

Valid votes		535,192	98.71
Invalid/blank votes		6,980	1.29
Total votes		542,172	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		581,953	93.16
Source: ECI^[6]

West Bengal[edit | edit source]

Party		Candidates	Seats	Votes	%
Left Front	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	212	187	10,285,723	39.12
	All India Forward Bloc	34	26	1,534,795	5.84
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	23	18	1,036,138	3.94
	Communist Party of India	12	11	503,854	1.92
	Revolutionary Communist Party of India	3	1	118,985	0.42
	Marxist Forward Bloc	2	2	107,732	0.41
	Biplobi Bangla Congress	1	0	42,261	0.16
	West Bengal Socialist Party and Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)	7	6	288,915	1.10
Indian National Congress (I)		294	40	10,989,520	41.81
Socialist Unity Centre of India		46	2	237,674	0.90
Indian Union Muslim League		36	1	162,850	0.62
Bharatiya Janata Party		57	0	134,867	0.51
Janata Party		30	0	41,475	0.16
Lok Dal		18	0	10,032	0.04
Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha)		4	0	3,335	0.01
Independents		718	0	784,937	2.99
Total		1,497	294	26,283,093	100
Source:ECI^[7]

Rajya Sabha[edit | edit source]

President[edit | edit source]

Candidate	Electoral Values
R. Venkataraman	740,148
V. R. Krishna Iyer	281,550
Mithilesh Kumar	2,223
Total	1,023,921

Vice-president[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala (PDF). Election Commission of India. 1987. p. 3.
↑ "Kerala Assembly Election Results in 1987". www.elections.in. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
↑ Pillai, Sreedhar; Chawla, Prabhu (15 April 1987). "Red letter day in Kerala: Congress(I) out of power, Left Democratic Front forms govt". India Today. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India.

External links[edit | edit source]

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

[5] Independents included the winning Mizo National Front candidates

[1] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[2] Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala (PDF). Election Commission of India. 1987. p. 3.

[3] "Kerala Assembly Election Results in 1987". www.elections.in. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[4] Pillai, Sreedhar; Chawla, Prabhu (15 April 1987). "Red letter day in Kerala: Congress(I) out of power, Left Democratic Front forms govt". India Today. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

[6] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 July 2021.

[7] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 August 2021.

[8] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Election Commission of India.

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+| [[1987 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election|Mizoram]]
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+|[[1987 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|Haryana]]
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+|[[1987 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election|Nagaland]]
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