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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 1982 elections in India
| previous_year = 1982
| election_date = 1983
| next_election = 1984 elections in India
| next_year = 1984
}}
{{Politics of India}}
'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1983'' included elections to six state legislative assemblies and to seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]].

==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
|-
|
| [[1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Karnataka]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[R. Gundu Rao]]
| {{Full party name with color|Janata Party}}
| [[Ramakrishna Hegde]]
| [[File:IN-KA.svg|50px]]
|-
|17 February 1983
|[[1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election|Meghalaya]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Williamson A. Sangma]]
|{{Full party name with color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}
|[[B. B. Lyngdoh]]
|[[File:IN-ML.svg|50px]]
|-
|14–20 February 1983
| [[1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election|Assam]]
| bgcolor="#000000" |
| colspan="2" align="center" |[[President's rule|President's Rule]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[Hiteswar Saikia]]
|[[File:IN-AS.svg|50px]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|1 May 1983
|[[1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Andhra Pradesh]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| [[Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy]]
|{{Full party name with color|Telugu Desam Party}}
|[[N. T. Rama Rao]]
|[[File:IN-AP.svg|50px]]
|-
|[[1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election|Tripura]]
| {{Party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
| align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Nripen Chakraborty]]
| {{Party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
| align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Nripen Chakraborty]]
|[[File:IN-TR.svg|50px]]
|-
|17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983
|[[1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|{{Full party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir National Conference}}
|[[Farooq Abdullah]]
|{{Full party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir National Conference}}
|[[Farooq Abdullah]]
|[[File:IN-JK.svg|50px]]
|-
|}

==Legislative Assembly elections==
===Andhra Pradesh===
{{Main|1983 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! s.no
! party
! seats contested
! seats won
! seats change
! vote share
! swing
|-
| 1
| [[Telugu Desam Party]]
| 289
| 202
| +202
| 46.3%
| + 46.3%
|-
| 2
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| 294
| 60
| -115
| 33.64%
| -22.78%
|-
| 3
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| 28
| 5
| -3
| 2.01%
| -0.70%
|-
| 4
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| 48
| 6
| +3
| 2.79%
| +0.30%
|-
| 5
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 81
| 3
| +3
| 2.76%
| +2.76%
|-
| 6
| [[Janata Party]]
| 44
| 1
| -59
| 0.96%
| -27.89%
|-
| 7 || others || 1100 || 20 || +5 || 5.00% || -4.20%
|-
|}
===Assam===
{{Main|1983 Assam Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Assam Legislative Assembly 1983.svg]]
|party1=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes1=1194657|seats1=91|sc1=+65
|party2=[[Indian Congress (Socialist)]]|votes2=137685|seats2=4|sc2=New
|party3=[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]|votes3=116923|seats3=2|sc3=–9
|party4=[[Plain Tribals Council of Assam]]|votes4=106084|seats4=1|sc4=–3
|party5=[[Communist Party of India]]|votes5=58746|seats5=1|sc5=–4
|party21=Independents|votes21=659995|seats21=10|sc21=–5
|total_sc=–21
|invalid=111100
|electorate=7284612
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eci.gov.in/files/file/3998-assam-1983/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=10 February 2022}}</ref>
}}

===Jammu and Kashmir===
{{Main|1983 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election}}
{{Election results
|image=[[File:India Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly 1983.svg]]
|party1=[[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference]]|votes1=1039064|seats1=46|sc1={{decrease}}1
|party2=[[Indian National Congress]]|votes2=666112|seats2=26|sc2={{increase}}15
|party3=[[Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference]]|votes3=100622|seats3=1|sc3=New
|party20=Others|votes20=170415|seats20=0|sc20=0
|party21=Independents|votes21=220904|seats21=2|sc21={{decrease}}2
|total_sc={{decrease}}1
|invalid=74692
|electorate=3101665
|source=ECI<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3792-jammu-kashmir-1983/ |title=Jammu & Kashmir 1983 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=22 June 2022}}</ref>
}}

===Karnataka===
{{Main|1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 1983<ref name=eci-karnataka>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1983/Statistical%20Report%201983%20karnatkaa.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1983 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" |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||||
|-
|}
===Meghalaya===
{{Main|1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ [[1978 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|←]] Summary of the 17 February 1983 [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly]] election results [[1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|→]]
|-
|-
! style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2" colspan="2" width="485"| Parties and coalitions
! colspan="3"| Popular vote
! colspan="2"| Seats
|-
! width="70"| Votes
! width="45"| %
! width="50"| ±[[Percentage point|pp]]
! width="30"| Won
! width="30"| +/−
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
| align="left"| [[Indian National Congress]] (INC)
| 130,956 || 27.68 ||1.64 {{Decrease}}
| 25 || 5 {{Increase}}
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}"|
| align="left" |[[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] (AHL)
|118,593
|24.92
|0.15 {{Increase}}
|15
|1 {{Decrease}}
|-
| width="1" style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}"|
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HDP)
|91,386
|19.32
|0.08 {{Increase}}
|15
|1 {{Increase}}
|-
|
|align="left" |[[Public Demands Implementation Convention|Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)]]
|23,253
|4.92
|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|2
|{{Steady}} {{ref label|alpha|a}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| align="left" |[[Communist Party of India]]
|2,442
|0.52
|0.1 {{Decrease}}
|0
|{{Steady}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |
| align="left" |[[Independent (politician)|Independents]] (IND)
| 106,378 || 22.49 ||2.33 {{Decrease}}
| 3 ||5 {{Decrease}}{{ref label|beta|b}}
|-
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total
| 473,050 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 60 || ±0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |Source: [[Election Commission of India]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3672-meghalaya-1983/|title=Meghalaya 1983|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=2 April 2020}}</ref>
|}
{{note label|alpha|a}}In the 1978 election, two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; at that time, 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>

{{note label|beta|b}}Does not include the two PDIC candidates elected as independents in 1978.

===Tripura===
{{Main|1983 Tripura Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Performance of the political parties in this election
! Party
! Seats contested
! Seats won
! No. of votes
! % of votes
! 1977 Seats
|-
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 4
| 0
| 578
| 0.06%
| -
|-
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| 1
| 0
| 7,657
| 0.83%
| 0
|-
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| 56
| 37
| 433,608
| 46.78%
| 51
|-
| [[Indian Congress Secular]]
| 3
| 0
| 540
| 0.06%
| -
|-
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| 45
| 12
| 282,859
| 30.51%
| 0
|-
| [[Janata Party]]
| 5
| 0
| 515
| 0.06%
| 0
|-
| [[All India Forward Block]]
| 1
| 0
| 6,549
| 0.71%
| 1
|-
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
| 2
| 2
| 15,218
| 1.64%
| 2
|-
| [[Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti]]
| 14
| 6
| 97,039
| 10.47%
| 4
|-
| [[Independent (politician)|Independents]]
| 75
| 3
| 82,443
| 8.89%
| 2
|-
! Total
! 206
! 60
! 927,006
!
!
|}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3302-tripura-1983/|title=1983 Tripura Election result}}</ref>

==Local Elections==
===Delhi===
{{Main|1983 Delhi Metropolitan Council election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1983<ref name="eci-delhi">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1983/StatisticalReportDelhi_83.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1983 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF DELHI]''</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 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||56||34||856,055||47.50%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||50||19||666,605||36.99%
|-
| {{party color cell|Lok Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Lok Dal]]||6||2||73,765||4.09%
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Party]]||37||1||65,980||3.66%
|-
|
! Total !! 400 !! 56 !! 1,802,118 !!
|-
|}

==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|1983 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}

==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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