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The '''Indian general election of 1967''' elected the [[4th Lok Sabha]] of [[India]] and was held from 17 to 21 February. The 27 Indian states and union territories were represented by 520 single-member constituencies in the Lok Sabha, an increase of 26 from the [[3rd Lok Sabha|previous session]] of Lok Sabha including two seats from Gujarat.<ref name="General Election of India 1967">{{cite web|title=General Election of India 1967, 4th Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185108/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf|archivedate=18 July 2014|accessdate=13 January 2010|publisher=Election Commission of India|page=5|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="General Election 1967">{{cite web|title=General Election, 1967, 4th Lok Sabha|url=https://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1967-election-results.html}}</ref><ref name="Why General election of 1967 year are so important?">{{cite web|title=Why 1967 general election was a watershed in Indian politics and the lessons it left behind|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-1967-poll-that-changed-india-2330738}}</ref>

Elections to state assemblies were also held simultaneously, the last general election to do so. [[Indian National Congress|INC]] won 11 seats, while [[Swatantra Party]] won 12 seats out of twenty-four seats from Gujarat.

== Party-wise results summary==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan=2|Party
!Seats won
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
|11
|-
|
|[[Swatantra Party]]<ref name="Socialist Party in 1967 year">{{cite web|title=Socialist parties in India, 1967, 4th Lok Sabha|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2642162?seq=1}}</ref>

|12
|-
|
|Independent
|1
|-
|}

== Results- Constituency wise ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!No
!Constituency
!Winner
!Party
|-
!1
|[[Kachchh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kachchh]]
|T.M. SHETH
| INC
|-
!2
|[[Surendranagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Surendranagar]]
|MEGHRAJJI
|SWA
|-
!3
|[[Rajkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rajkot]]
|M.R. MASANI
|SWA
|-
!4
|[[Jamnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jamnagar]]
|N. DANDEKAR
|SWA
|-
!5
|[[Junagadh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Junagadh]]
|V.J. SHAH
|SWA
|-
!6
|[[Amreli (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amreli]]
|J.V. SHAH
|INC
|-
!7
|[[Bhavnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhavnagar]]
|J.N. MEHTA
|INC
|-
!8
|DHANDHUKA
|R.K. AMIN
|SWA
|-
!9
|AHMEDABAD
|I.YAGNIK
| |IND
|-
!10
|GANDHINAGAR (SC)
|S.M. SOLANKI
|INC
|-
!11
|[[Mahesana (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mahesana]]
|R.J. AMIN
| |SWA
|-
!12
|[[Patan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patan]] (SC)
|D.R. PARMAR
| |SWA
|-
!13
|BANASKANTHA
|M. AMERSEY
|SWA
|-
!14
|SABARKANTHA
|C.C. DESAI
| |SWA
|-
!15
|DOHAD (ST)
|B.R. PARMAR
| |INC
|-
!16
|GODHRA
|P.H. MODY
|SWA
|-
!17
|KAIRA
|P.N. SOLANKI
| |SWA
|-
!18
|[[Anand (Lok Sabha constituency)|Anand]]
|N.R. MAHIDA
| |INC
|-
!19
|BARODA
|P.C. PATEL
| |SWA
|-
!20
|DABHOI
|M.M. PATEL
| |INC
|-
!21
|BROACH
|M.B. RANA
| |INC
|-
!22
|[[Surat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Surat]]
|M.R. DESAI
| |INC
|-
!23
|MANDAVI (ST)
|C.M. KEDARIA
| |INC
|-
!24
|BULSAR (ST)
|N.N. PATEL
| |INC
|}

==References==
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