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{{Infobox election<br />
| election_name = Elections in India <br />
| country = India <br />
| previous_election = 1963 elections in India <br />
| previous_year = 1963<br />
| election_date = 1964<br />
| next_election = 1965 elections in India <br />
| next_year = 1965<br />
}}<br />
{{Politics of India}}<br />
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==Legislative Assembly elections==<br />
[[Legislative Assembly elections in India]] were conducted for [[Nagaland Legislative Assembly]] and [[Puducherry Legislative Assembly]] in 1964.<ref name="NagalandECI1964"/><ref name="PuducherryECI1964"/><br />
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===Nagaland===<br />
{{Main|1964 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election}}<br />
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[[Nagaland]] was granted the statehood on 1 December 1963, and the first state assembly elections were held on January 10–16, 1964.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://statistics.nagaland.gov.in/subpageframe.aspx?val=243 | title=1st General Election to the Legislative Assembly, Nagaland | work=Government of Nagaland | date=1964 | access-date=3 October 2018 | archive-date=3 October 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003221035/http://statistics.nagaland.gov.in/subpageframe.aspx?val=243 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Naga Nationalist Organization (NNO) won 33 out of 46 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The National Democratic Party (NDP) won 11 seats in the Legislative Assembly.<ref name="NagalandECI1964">{{cite web | url=https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1964/StatReport_NL_64.pdf | title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1964 : To the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland | publisher=Election Commission of India | access-date=2018-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/indianagas-1947-present/ | title=17. India/Nagas (1947–present)| work=University of Central Arkansas | access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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{{Election results<br />
|party1=Independents|votes1=62175|seats1=40<br />
|invalid=544<br />
|electorate=124166<br />
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3632-nagaland-1964/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1964 to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 22 July 2021}}</ref><br />
}}<br />
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===Puducherry===<br />
{{Main|1964 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election}}<br />
Elections to the '''[[Vidhan Sabha|Legislative Assembly]]''' of the Indian Union Territory of '''[[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry]]''' took place on 23 August 1964.<ref name="r1">Rahman, S. A. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=mV0wAQAAIAAJ The Beautiful India. Pondicherry]''. New Delhi: Reference Press, 2006. pp. 138–139</ref> These were the first Legislative Assembly elections after the formation of the new Union Territory.<ref>Das, Manoj. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=acUtAAAAMAAJ Pondicherry]''. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1976. p. 20</ref> 21 seats were won by [[Indian National Congress]] while rest of the seats were won by [[Independent candidate|Independents]] and others.<ref name="PuducherryECI1964">{{cite web | url=https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1964/StatReport_PY_64.pdf | title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1964 : To the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry | publisher=Election Commission of India | access-date=2018-10-03}}</ref><br />
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The results of 1964 election were summarized below:<ref name="reference1990">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rpVAAAAYAAJ|title=The Story of Congress Pilgrimage: 1964–1970|work=A.M.Zaidi|volume=6|publisher=Indian Institute of Applied Political Research, New Delhi|year=1990|isbn=9788185355528}}</ref>{{rp|38}}<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
|- valign="top"<br />
!||Parties and Coalitions <br />
! Won<br />
! Votes <br />
! Vote % <br />
! Change<br />
|-<br />
| style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|&nbsp; || style="text-align:left;"|[[Indian National Congress]] <br />
| align="right"|22{{refn|group=note|One candidate elected uncontested}} <br />
| align="right"| 91,338<br />
| align="right"| 54.3<br />
| align="right"|{{increase}}1<br />
|-<br />
| style="background-color:{{party color|Popular Front}}"|&nbsp; || style="text-align:left;"|People's Front <br />
| align="right"|4<br />
| align="right"|30,495 <br />
| align="right"| 31.6<br />
| align="right"|{{decrease}}9<br />
|-<br />
| style="background-color:{{party color|Independent}}"|&nbsp; || style="text-align:left;"|[[Independent politician|Independents]]<br />
| align="right"| 4<br />
| align="right"|46,218 <br />
| align="right"| 27.5 <br />
| align="right"|{{decrease}}1<br />
|}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[1962 elections in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Indian elections}}<br />
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[[Category:1964 elections in Asia|India]]<br />
[[Category:1964 in India]]<br />
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