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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1967 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| previous_election = 1962 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1962
| previous_mps =
| election_date = 21 February 1967
| next_election = 1972 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1972
| seats_for_election= all 75 seats in [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 38
| opinion_polls =
| turnout = 58.8%

| image1 =
|-
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| leader1 = [[Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq]]
| leader_since1 =
| leaders_seat1 =
| last_election1 =
| seats1 = 61
| seat_change1 =

| image2 = [[File:JKNC-flag.svg|100x90px]]
|-
| party2 = Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
| leader2 = [[Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad]]
| leader_since2 =
| leaders_seat2 =
| last_election2 = 70
| seats2 = 8
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 62

| image4 =
| leader4 =
| party4 = Bharatiya Jana Sangh
| leader_since4 =
| leaders_seat4 =
| last_election4 = 2
| seats4 = 3
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 1

| title = Chief Minister
| before_election = [[Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress
| after_election = [[Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq]]
| after_party = Indian National Congress
}}

'''Elections for the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]''' were held in February 1967.{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|pp=380–381}}<ref>[http://www.elections.in/jammu-and-kashmir/assembly-constituencies/1967-election-results.html 1967 J&K elections]</ref><ref name=report>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1967/Statistical_Report_Jk_1967.pdf Statistical Report on General Election, 1967], Election Commission of India.</ref> [[Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq]] was appointed [[Chief Minister of Jammu]] and [[Kashmir]].

==Background==
In 1965, the working committee of the [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference]] announced that it would dissolve itself and merge with the [[Indian National Congress]]. A rival faction led by [[Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad]] refused to go along and contested the elections under the National Conference banner.{{sfn|Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|pp=82–83}}

Prior to that, in 1963, the [[Jammu Praja Parishad]] also merged into the national party [[Bharatiya Jana Sangh]].<ref name="Kumar1990">{{citation |author=Kedar Nath Kumar |title=Political Parties in India, Their Ideology and Organisation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3pJ8t4rxIsC&pg=PA108 |date=1990 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-7099-205-9 |pages=108–}}</ref>
These mergers are seen by analysts as a major "centralizing strategy" and a victory for the Hindu nationalist agenda of the Praja Parishad and its allies.{{sfn|Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|p=82}}

There were reports that Bakshi was planning to forge an electoral alliance with the Jana Sangh, despite their differences on the [[Article 370]], but the alliance did not materialize. The Jana Sangh, whose main base was in the [[Jammu Division]], planned to contest in the [[Kashmir Valley]] taking advantage of the rivalry between the Congress and the National Conference.{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|p=380}}

==The election==
Of the 75 seats, 42 seats were allocated to the Kashmir Valley, 31 to Jammu, and 2 to Ladakh.{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|p=380}}

The National Conference contested 73 seats overall. The Jana Sangh contested all 31 seats of Jammu and several seats in the Valley. The [[All Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front|Plebiscite Front]] officially boycotted the election, but several members contested as independent candidates, including the General Secretary Ali Mohammad Naik, who contested from [[Tral]], and Ghulam Mohammed Bhat, contesting from Habbakadal in Srinagar. The Awami Action Committee also boycotted the election. Other parties that contested included the rump group of the National Conference under the leadership of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the rump group of the Democratic National Conference under the leadership of Ram Piara Saraf, and the national parties [[Communist Party of India]], [[Praja Socialist Party]] and the [[Hindu Mahasabha]].{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|p=380}}

The nomination papers of 118 candidates were rejected on technical grounds, 55 of them because the candidates had failed to take the obligatory oath of allegiance to the Constitution. As a result, 22 seats in the Valley were unopposed, resulting in a win for the Congress candidates.{{sfn|Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|p=85}}

Simultaneously, elections were also held for the [[Lok Sabha]] (the Lower House of the Indian Parliament) in the 6 Lok Sabha constituencies of the State.{{sfn|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012|p=380}}

==Results==
The Indian National Congress won 61 seats in the state assembly, emerging as the winning party. Bakshi's National Conference won 8 seats and the Jana Sangh 3 seats. Three other seats were won by independent candidates, one of them by Ali Mohammed Naik of the Plebiscite Front.<ref name=report/>{{sfn|Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|p=86}}

In the elections for the Lok Sabha, 5 of the 6 seats were won by the Congress, of which 2 were unopposed. The remaining seat was won by Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad of the National Conference, contesting from [[Srinagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Srinagar]]. Scholar [[Sumantra Bose]] remarks that Bakshi might never have won a free election "at any point during his ten years in office", but he did so now holding the banner of Kashmiri regionalist resistance to New Delhi.{{sfn|Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003|p=86}}

==Government formation==
On 17 March, a 14-member ministry headed by G. M. Sadiq was sworn in. The Cabinet ministers included [[Girdhari Lal Dogra]], [[D. P. Dhar]], Mohammed Ayub Khan, Peer Giasuddin and Kanwar Ranjit Singh. [[Abdul Gani Lone]] was among the Ministers of State, and [[Mufti Mohammed Sayeed]] was among the Deputy Ministers.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{citation |first=Sumantra |last=Bose |authorlink=Sumantra Bose |title=Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-674-01173-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ACMe9WBdNAC |ref={{sfnref|Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace|2003}}}}
* {{citation |last=Das Gupta |first=Jyoti Bhusan |title=Jammu and Kashmir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dpTpCAAAQBAJ |date=2012 |origyear=first published 1968 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-011-9231-6 |ref={{sfnref|Das Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir|2012}}}}

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