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{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 1977 elections in India
| previous_year = 1977
| election_date = 1978
| next_election = 1979 elections in India
| next_year = 1979
}}
{{Politics of India}}

'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1978'' included elections to seven state legislative assemblies.

==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
|-
|rowspan ="5"|25 February 1978
|[[1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Andhra Pradesh]]
| {{Party color cell|Indian National Congress (R)}}
| align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (R)]]
|[[Jalagam Vengala Rao]]
| {{Party color cell|Indian National Congress (I)}}
| align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
|[[Marri Channa Reddy]]
|[[File:IN-AP.svg|50px]]
|-
|[[1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Arunachal Pradesh]]
|colspan="3"|''New State was created''
|{{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|[[Prem Khandu Thungan]]
|[[File:IN-AR.svg|50px]]
|-
| [[1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election|Assam]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Sarat Chandra Sinha]]
| {{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
|[[Golap Borbora]]
|[[File:IN-AS.svg|50px]]
|-
| [[1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Karnataka]]
| bgcolor="#000000" |
| colspan="2" align="center" |[[President's rule|President's Rule]]
| {{Party color cell|Indian National Congress (I)}}
| align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
| [[D. Devaraj Urs]]
| [[File:IN-KA.svg|50px]]
|-
|[[1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election|Meghalaya]]
|{{Full party name with color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}
|[[Williamson A. Sangma]]
|{{Full party name with color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}
|[[Darwin Diengdoh Pugh]]
|[[File:IN-ML.svg|50px]]
|-
|rowspan="2" |25 February 1978
|rowspan="2" |[[1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|Maharashtra]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Vasantdada Patil]]
| {{Party color cell|Indian National Congress (I)}}
| align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Vasantdada Patil]]
| rowspan="2" |[[File:IN-MH.svg|50px]]
|-
| {{Party color cell|Indian National Congress (Urs)}}
| align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Urs)|Indian National Congress (U)]]
|-
|17 and 20 May 1978
|[[1978 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election|Mizoram]]
|{{Full party name with color|Mizo Union}} (''contested as Independent'')
|[[C. Chhunga]]
|{{Full party name with color|Mizoram People's Conference}}
|[[T. Sailo]]
|[[File:IN-MZ.svg|50px]]
|}

==Legislative Assembly elections==
===Andhra Pradesh===
{{Main|1978 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable"
|'''PARTY <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Election Results, 1978, Andhra Pradesh|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4047-andhra-pradesh-1978/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515060714/https://www.eci.gov.in/files/file/4047-andhra-pradesh-1978/ |archive-date=15 May 2019 }}</ref>'''
| colspan="3" |'''SEATS'''
| colspan="2" |'''VOTES POLLED'''
|'''VOTE % IN'''
|-
|'''NATIONAL PARTIES'''
|'''CONTESTED'''
|'''WON'''
|'''FD'''
|'''VOTES'''
|'''%'''
|'''SEATS'''
|-
|1. '''CPI'''
|31
|6
|12
|501452
|2.49%
|23.40%
|-
|2. '''CPM'''
|22
|8
|1
|546262
|2.71%
|34.65%
|-
|3. '''INC'''
|257
|30
|130
|3426850
|17.01%
|19.48%
|-
|4 . '''INC(I)'''
|290
|175
|18
|7908220
|39.25%
|39.69%
|-
|5 . '''JNP'''
|270
|60
|36
|5812532
|28.85%
|31.52%
|-
|'''STATE PARTIES'''
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|6. '''ADK'''
|9
|0
|9
|38691
|0.19%
|6.22%
|-
|7. '''DMK'''
|2
|0
|2
|6547
|0.03%
|4.12%
|-
| colspan="7" |'''REGISTERED (Unrecognised) PARTIES'''
|-
|8. '''BCM'''
|2
|0
|2
|2123
|0.01%
|1.53%
|-
|9. '''RPI'''
|1
|0
|1
|500
|0.00%
|0.69%
|-
|10 . '''RPK'''
|13
|0
|11
|53497
|0.27%
|6.03%
|-
|11 . '''RRP'''
|1
|0
|1
|611
|0.00%
|1.06%
|-
|'''INDEPENDENTS'''
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|12. '''IND'''
|640
|15
|593
|1852808
|9.20%
|11.35%
|-
|'''Grand Total :'''
|'''1538'''
|'''294'''
|'''816'''
|'''20150093'''
|
|
|}
===Arunachal Pradesh===
{{Main|1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}

{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1978.svg]]
|party1=[[Janata Party]]|votes1=66906|seats1=17|sc1=New
|party2=[[People's Party of Arunachal]]|votes2=48075|seats2=8|sc2=New
|party3=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes3=720|seats3=0|sc3=New
|party11=[[Independent (politics)|Independents]]|votes11=43287|seats11=5|sc11=New
|total_sc=New
|invalid=5599
|electorate=224839
|source=ECI<ref name="eci">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1978/StatisticalReport%20Arunachal%20Pradesh%2078.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1978 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127195039/http://eci.gov.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1978/StatisticalReport%20Arunachal%20Pradesh%2078.pdf |date=27 January 2013 }}''</ref>
}}

===Assam===
{{Main|1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Sl No ||Party||Abbreviation||Party-type||Contested|| Won ||Votes polled %|| Vote % in seats contested
|-
| 1|| [[Communist Party of India]]||CPI||National || 35 ||5 || 4.09 ||14.39
|-
| 2||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist) ]]||CPM|| National || 27 || 11 ||5.62 ||25.87
|-
| 3|| [[Indian National Congress]]||INC|| National || 126 || 26 ||23.62||23.62
|-
| 4||[[Indian National Congress (I)]]||INC(I) || National || 115 ||8||8.78||9.84
|-
| 5|| [[Janata Party]]||JNP||National ||117||53||27.55||29.95
|-
| 6|| [[All India Forward Bloc]]||FBL||State||3 ||0||0.09 ||4.28
|-
| 7|| [[Plain Tribals Council of Assam]]||PTC|| State ||9||4||2.60 ||32.54
|-
| 8|| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) ]]||RSP|| State ||6||0 || 0.44||8.85
|-
| 9|| [[All India Gorkha League ]]||IGL||Registered||1||0 ||0.04 ||6.08
|-
| 10|| [[Revolutionary Communist Party of India]]||RCI|| Registered ||10||4||1.40 ||17.68
|-
| 11||[[ Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | Socialist Unity Centre of India]]||SUC|| Registered ||4||0||0.07 ||2.29
|-
| 12||Independent||IND|| || ||15|| 25.67||26.50
|-
| ||'''Total'''|||| || ||'''126'''|| ||
|-
|align=left colspan=8|Source: [https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3996-assam-1978/ Statistical Report on Legislative Assembly election of Assam, 1978]
|}

===Karnataka===
{{Main|1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1978/Statistical%20Report%20Karnataka%201978.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Contestants 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change 
|- style="background: #90EE90;"
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]||214||149||||5,543,756||44.25%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party]]||222||59||||4,754,114||37.95%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||6||3||{{steady}}||148,567||1.19%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||212||2||||1,001,553||7.99%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India]]||3||1||||22,443||0.18%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||||10||{{decrease}} 10||940,677||7.51%||''N/A''
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||||'''224'''||||''' '''||||
|-
|}

===Maharashtra===
{{Main|1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1978<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1978/Statistical_Report_1978_Maharashtra.pdf |title=Key Highlights of General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] }}</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party]]||215||99||5,701,399||27.99%||{{increase}} 99
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||259||69||5,159,828||25.33%||{{decrease}} 159
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Indira)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Indira)]]||203||62||3,735,308||18.34%||{{increase}} 62
|-
| {{party color cell|Peasants and Workers Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Peasants and Workers Party of India]]||88||13||1,129,172||5.54%||{{increase}} 6
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||12||9||345,008||1.69%||{{increase}} 8
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Forward Bloc}}
|align="left"|[[All India Forward Bloc]]||6||3||166,497||0.82%||{{increase}} 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India]]||25||2||215,487||1.06%||{{nochange}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Republican Party of India (Khobragade)]]||23||2||287,533||1.41%||{{increase}} 2
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||48||1||301,056||1.48%||{{decrease}} 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||894||28||2,864,023||14.06%||{{increase}} 5
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||1819||288||20,367,221||100%||
|-
|}

===Meghalaya===
{{Main|1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="2"| Seats
|-
!Votes
!%
!±[[Percentage point|pp]]
!Won
!+/−
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| align="left"| [[Indian National Congress]] (INC)
| 109,654 || 28.96 ||19.07 {{Increase}}
| 20 || 11 {{Increase}}
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}"|
| align="left" |[[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] (APHLC)
|94,362
|24.92
|10.75 {{Decrease}}
|16
|16 {{Decrease}}
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HSPDP)
|72,852
|19.24
| style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|14{{ref label|alpha|a}}
| style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Indian National Congress (I)}}"|
| align="left" |[[Indian National Congress (I)]]
| 5,447 || 1.44

| style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9"|
| 0

| style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9"|
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| align="left" |[[Communist Party of India]]
|2,361
|0.62
|0.05 {{Increase}}
|0
|{{Steady}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |
| align="left" |[[Independent (politician)|Independents]] (IND)
| 93,970 || 24.82 ||29.04 {{Decrease}}
| 10{{ref label|beta|b}} ||9 {{Decrease}}
|-
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total
| 378,646 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 60 || ±0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |Source: [[Election Commission of India]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3670-meghalaya-1978/|title=Meghalaya 1978|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref>
|}
{{note label|alpha|a}} The HSPDP won 8 seats in the 1972 election, but the party's representatives were recorded as independents at the time of that election.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Warjri |first=Antarwell |date=March 2017 |title=Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya |url=https://www.ijhsss.com/files/19.-Antarwell-Warjri.pdf |journal=International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=206–218 |access-date=9 January 2022 |archive-date=6 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506102130/http://www.ijhsss.com/files/19.-Antarwell-Warjri.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{note label|beta|b}}Two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.<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>

===Mizoram===
{{Main|1978 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Mizoram Legislative Assembly 1978.svg]]
|party1=[[Mizoram People's Conference]]|votes1=52640|seats1=22|sc1={{increase}}22
|party2=[[Independent (politics)|Independents]]|votes2=87830|seats2=8|sc2={{decrease}}16
|total_sc=0
|valid=140470
|invalid=1838
|electorate=224936
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3655-mizoram-1978/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1978 to the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 13 July 2021}}</ref>
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |url=https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/statistical-reports/ |title=Election Results - Full Statistical Reports |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}

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