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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		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister
	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
1 May 1983	Tripura	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty
17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983	Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	Farooq Abdullah	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	Farooq Abdullah

Legislative Assembly elections[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

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]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Indian National Congress	1,194,657	52.53	91	+65
	Indian Congress (Socialist)	137,685	6.05	4	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	116,923	5.14	2	–9
	Plain Tribals Council of Assam	106,084	4.66	1	–3
	Communist Party of India	58,746	2.58	1	–4
	Independents	659,995	29.02	10	–5
Total		2,274,090	100.00	109	–21

Valid votes		2,274,090	95.34
Invalid/blank votes		111,100	4.66
Total votes		2,385,190	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,284,612	32.74
Source: ECI^[1]

Jammu and Kashmir[edit | edit source]


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–

	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	1,039,064	47.29	46	1
	Indian National Congress	666,112	30.32	26	15
	Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference	100,622	4.58	1	New
	Others	170,415	7.76	0	0
	Independents	220,904	10.05	2	2
Total		2,197,117	100.00	75	1

Valid votes		2,197,117	96.71
Invalid/blank votes		74,692	3.29
Total votes		2,271,809	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,101,665	73.24
Source: ECI^[2]

Karnataka[edit | edit source]

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

Meghalaya[edit | edit source]

← Summary of the 17 February 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results →
Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
Parties and coalitions		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	130,956	27.68	1.64	25	5
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL)	118,593	24.92	0.15	15	1
	Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP)	91,386	19.32	0.08	15	1
	Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)	23,253	4.92		2	^[a]
	Communist Party of India	2,442	0.52	0.1	0
	Independents (IND)	106,378	22.49	2.33	3	5 ^[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]

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]

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]

References[edit | edit source]

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

External links[edit | edit source]

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

[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.

[:1-3] "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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+{{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}}
+'''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==
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 ===Assam===
 {{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===
 {{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===
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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|→]]
 |-
-|- 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"| %
@@ Line 155: / Line 223: @@
 ! 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)
 | 130,956 || 27.68 ||1.64 {{Decrease}}
 | 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)
 |118,593
@@ Line 168: / Line 236: @@
 |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)
 |91,386
@@ Line 180: / Line 248: @@
 |23,253
 |4.92
-|bgcolor="#E9E9E9" |
+|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
 |2
 |{{Steady}} {{ref label|alpha|a}}
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 | 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>
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 |+ Performance of the political parties in this election
 ! Party
-! Seats Contested
+! Seats contested
-! Seats Won
+! Seats won
-! No. of Votes
+! No. of votes
-! % of Votes
+! % of votes
 ! 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==
 {{Main|1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}
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