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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = legislative
| previous_election = 1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1978
| next_election = 1985 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1985
| seats_for_election= All 224 seats of the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 113

| image1 =
| party1 = Janata Party
| leader1 = [[Ramakrishna Hegde]]
| leaders_seat1 =
| last_election1 =
| seats_before1 =
| seats1 = 95
| seat_change1 =
| popular_vote1 = 4,272,318
| percentage1 = 33.07%
| swing1 =

| image2 =
| party2 = Indian National Congress
| leader2 = [[R. Gundu Rao]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Somwarpet]] (lost)
| last_election2 =
| seats_before2 =
| seats2 = 82
| seat_change2 =
| popular_vote2 = 5,221,419
| percentage2 = 40.42%
| swing2 =

| title = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister]]
| before_election = [[R. Gundu Rao]]
| before_party = Indian National Congress
| after_election = [[Ramakrishna Hegde]]
| after_party = Janata Party
}}
{{Annotated image
| image = Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituencies 1978-2008.jpg
| image-width = 700 
| image-left = -190 
| image-top = -80 
| width = 350 
| height = 484 
| float = right
| annotations = 
| caption = Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituencies (1978-2008)
| icon = none
}}
The '''1983 Karnataka State Legislative Assembly election''' was held in the [[India]]n state of [[Karnataka]] to elect 224 members of the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]]. The elections resulted in a hung assembly with the [[Janata Party]] emerging as the single largest party winning 95 seats.<ref name= pdf>{{cite web|url= |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, Election Commission of India }}Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, [[Election Commission of India]] {{small|([http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1983/Statistical%20Report%201983%20karnatkaa.pdf])}}</ref> Later, Janata Party leader [[Ramakrishna Hegde]] formed the first non-Congress government in Karnataka with the support of [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] and other smaller parties.

==Results==
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1983<ref name=pdf />|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Contested 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Won 
!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]]||193||95||4,272,318||33.07%||{{increase}} 36
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||221||82||5,221,419||40.42%||{{decrease}} 67
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||110||18||1,024,892||7.93%||{{increase}} 18
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||7||3||161,192||1.25%||{{nochange}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||4||3||115,320||0.89%||{{increase}} 3
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
|align="left"|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]||1||1||16,234||0.13%||{{increase}} 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||751||22||1,998,256||15.47%||{{increase}} 12
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||'''1365'''||'''224'''||12,919,459||||
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Karnataka elections}}

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