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Elections in India

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Elections in the Republic of India in 1992 included elections to the Punjab Legislative Assembly, seats in the Rajya Sabha and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.


Punjab Legislative Assembly election[edit | edit source]

e • d 
Political Party
No. of Candidates
Seats won
Number of Votes
% of Votes
Indian National Congress 116 87 13,17,075 43.83%
Shiromani Akali Dal 58 3 1,56,171 5.20%
Bharatiya Janata Party 66 6 4,95,161 16.48%
Communist Party of India 20 4 1,09,386 3.64%
Bahujan Samaj Party 105 9 4,90,552 17.59%
Communist Party of India (M) 17 1 72,061 2.40%
Indian People's Front 2 1 2,292 0.08%
Janata Dal 37 1 64,666 2.15%
Independents 151 4 2,77,706 9.24%
Total[1] 579 117 30,05,083

Rajya Sabha[edit | edit source]

President[edit | edit source]

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website[2][3]

Candidate Electoral Values
Shankar Dayal Sharma 675,864
George Gilbert Swell 346,485
Ram Jethmalani 2,704
Joginder Singh 1,135
Total 1,026,188

Vice-president[edit | edit source]

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Candidate
Party
Electoral Votes
% of Votes
K. R. Narayanan INC 700 99.86
Joginder Singh Independent 1 0.14
Total 701 100.00
Valid Votes 701 98.59
Invalid Votes 10 1.41
Turnout 711 90.00
Abstentions 79 10.00
Electors 790

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.
  2. "Backgrounder". pib.nic.in. Archived from the original on 29 May 2000.
  3. "Election to the Office of President of India 2017" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Media Division, Election Commission of India. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017.

External links[edit | edit source]