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Elections in the Republic of India in 1995 included elections to six state legislative assemblies.

Overall result[edit | edit source]

Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister
12 February and 9 March 1995	Maharashtra	Indian National Congress	Sharad Pawar	Shiv Sena	Manohar Joshi
12 February and 9 March 1995	Maharashtra	Bharatiya Janata Party	Sharad Pawar		Manohar Joshi
16 and 19 February 1995	Manipur	Indian National Congress	Rishang Keishing	Indian National Congress	Rishang Keishing
9 March 1995	Odisha	Janata Dal	Biju Patnaik	Indian National Congress	Janaki Ballabh Pattanaik
	Gujarat	Indian National Congress	Chhabildas Mehta	Bharatiya Janata Party	Keshubhai Patel
25 and 28 March 1995	Bihar	Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav
	Arunachal Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Gegong Apang	Indian National Congress	Gegong Apang

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Arunachal Pradesh[edit | edit source]

Source:^[1]

	CONTESTED	WON	FD	VOTES	%	SEATS
NATIONAL PARTIES
1 . BJP	15	0	11	14335	3.37%	11.45%
2 . INC	60	43	0	214543	50.50%	50.50%
3 . JD	34	3	8	73248	17.24%	29.65%
4 . JP	5	2	1	10743	2.53%	28.49%
INDEPENDENTS
5 . IND	59	12	19	111958	26.35%	39.11%
Grand Total :	173	60	39	424827

Bihar[edit | edit source]

Source:^[2]

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Seats Change	Vote Share
Janata Dal	264	167	(+) 45	28.0
Bharatiya Janata Party	315	41	(+) 2	13.0
Indian National Congress	320	29	(−) 42	16.3
Communist Party of India	61	26	(+) 3	4.8
Independent	5674	11	(−) 19	13.8
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	63	10	(−) 8	2.3
Samata Party	310	7	(+) 7	7.1
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)	89	6	(+) 6	2.4
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	31	2	(−) 4	1.4
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	22	6	(+) 6
JMM (Marandi)	58	3	(+) 3	1.0
Samajwadi Party	176	2	(+) 2	1.7
Marxist Co-ordination Committee	5	2	(+) 0	0.3
Bahujan Samaj Party	161	2	(+) 2	1.3
Jharkhand People's Party	33	2	(+) 2	0.3
Champaran Vikas Party	15	1	(+) 1	0.3
Jharkhand Party	29	1	(+) 1	0.2
Bhartiya Pragatisheel Party	259	1	(+) 1	3.0

Gujarat[edit | edit source]

Source:^[3]

Parties and coalitions	Popular vote		Seats
Parties and coalitions	Votes	%	Won	+/−
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	7,672,401	42.51	121	+54
Indian National Congress (INC)	5,930,216	32.86	45	+12
Independents (IND)	3,376,637	18.71	16
Janta Dal	508,561	2.82	0
SP	14,513	0.08	0	0
CPM	30,563	0.17	0
Bahujan Smajvadi Party	288,572	1.6	0	0
CPI	19,129	0.11	0	0
SAP	10,239	0.06	0	0
IUML	2,223	0.01	0	0
RSP	700	0.00	0	0
SHS	10,759	0.06	0	0

Total	18,048,194	100.00	182	±0

Valid votes	18,048,194	95.60
Invalid votes	462,624	4.40
Votes cast / turnout	18,686,757	64.39
Registered voters	29,021,184

Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

Source:^[4]

Political Party	Seats			Popular Vote
Political Party	Contested	Won	+/-	Votes polled	Votes%	+/-
Indian National Congress 80 / 288 (28%)	286	80	61	1,19,41,832	31.00%	7.17%
Shiv Sena 73 / 288 (25%)	171	73	21	63,15,493	16.39%	0.45%
Bharatiya Janata Party 65 / 288 (23%)	117	65	23	49,32,767	12.80%	2.09%
Janata Dal 11 / 288 (4%)	182	11	13	22,58,914	5.86%	4.85%
Peasants and Workers Party of India 6 / 288 (2%)	42	6	2	7,88,286	2.05%	0.37%
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 3 / 288 (1%)	18	3		3,86,009	1.00%	0.13%
Samajwadi Party 3 / 288 (1%)	22	3	3	3,56,731	0.93%	0.93%
Nag Vidarbha Andolan Samiti 1 / 288 (0.3%)	2	1	1	82,677	0.21%	0.21%
Maharashtra Vikas Congress	3	1	1	45,404	0.12%	0.12%
Independents 45 / 288 (16%)	3196	45	32	91,04,036	23.63%	10.04%
Total	4727	288		3,8,526,206	100%

Manipur[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	328,362	28.08	22	–2
	Manipur Peoples Party	271,247	23.20	18	+9
	Janata Dal	136,594	11.68	7	–4
	Samata Party	70,887	6.06	2	New
	Communist Party of India	64,026	5.48	2	-1
	Federal Party of Manipur	56,300	4.82	2	New
	Indian Congress (Socialist)	44,797	3.83	1	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	38,405	3.28	1	+1
	National People's Party (India)	30,417	2.60	2	+1
	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	30,417	2.60	0	New
	Kuki National Assembly	2,832	0.24	0	-2
	Manipur Hill People's Council	2,440	0.21	0	0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,327	0.20	0	New
	Janata Party	1,611	0.14	0	New
	Independents	88,526	7.57	3	+3
Total		1,169,188	100.00	60	+6

Valid votes		1,169,188	98.83
Invalid/blank votes		13,868	1.17
Total votes		1,183,056	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,160,690	101.93
Source: ECI^[5]

Odisha[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Indian National Congress	6,180,237	39.08	80	+70
	Janata Dal	5,600,853	35.41	46	–77
	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,245,996	7.88	9	+7
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	307,517	1.94	4	New
	Communist Party of India	271,199	1.71	1	–4
	Jharkhand People's Party	27,494	0.17	1	New
	Others	521,158	3.30	0	0
	Independents	1,661,485	10.51	6	0
Total		15,815,939	100.00	147	0

Valid votes		15,815,939	97.30
Invalid/blank votes		439,618	2.70
Total votes		16,255,557	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		22,075,775	73.64
Source: ECI^[6]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Andhra Pradesh 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
↑ "Bihar 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
↑ "Gujarat 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
↑ "Maharashtra 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

External links[edit | edit source]

Election Commission of India

[1] "Andhra Pradesh 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[2] "Bihar 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[3] "Gujarat 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[4] "Maharashtra 1985". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[5] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 November 2021.

[6] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

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