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{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 1987 elections in India
| previous_year = 1987
| election_date = 1988
| next_election = 1989 elections in India
| next_year = 1989
}}
{{Politics of India}}
'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1988'' included elections to 2 state legislative assemblies and to seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]].

==Overall result==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Polling Date(s)
! State
! colspan="2" |Government before
! Chief Minister before
! colspan="2" |Government after
! Elected Chief Minister
! Maps
|- style="text-align:center;"
|rowspan="2" | 2 February 1988
|[[1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election|Meghalaya]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Williamson A. Sangma]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[P. A. Sangma]]
|[[File:IN-ML.svg|50px]]
|-style="text-align:center;"
|[[1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election|Tripura]]
| {{Party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
| align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|[[Nripen Chakraborty]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|[[Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar]]
|[[File:IN-TR.svg|50px]]
|-
|}

==Legislative Assembly elections==
=== Meghalaya ===
{{Main|1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election}}
Elections were held on 2 February for the [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]].<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=3 April 2020|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>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; font-size:95%;"
|+ [[1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election#Results|←]] Summary of the 2 February 1988 [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly]] election results [[1993 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)
| 198,028 || 32.65 ||4.97 {{Increase}}
| 22 || 3 {{Decrease}}
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="green"|
|align="left" |[[Hill People's Union]] (HPU)
|162,806
|26.84
|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|19
|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|Hill State People's Democratic Party}}" |
| align="left" |[[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HDP)
|78,884
|12.68
|6.64 {{Decrease}}
|6
|9 {{Decrease}}
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="{{party color|All Party Hill Leaders Conference}}" |
|align="left" |All Party Hill Leaders Conference (Armison Marak Group)
|28,391
|4.68
|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|2
|style="color:inherit;background:#E9E9E9" |
|-
| width="1" bgcolor="purple"|
|align="left" |[[Public Demands Implementation Convention|Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)]]
|19,402
|3.2
|1.62 {{Decrease}}
|2
|{{Steady}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Communist Party of India}}" |
| align="left" |[[Communist Party of India]] (CPI)
|2,206
|0.36
|0.16 {{Decrease}}
|0
|{{Steady}}
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Independent (politician)}}" |
| align="left" |[[Independent (politician)|Independents]] (IND)
| 118,816 || 19.59 ||2.9 {{Decrease}}
| 9 ||6 {{Increase}}
|-
| colspan="7" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
| align="left" colspan="2"| Total
| 606,533 || 100.00 || bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
| 60 || ±0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" |<small>Source: [[Election Commission of India]]</small><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3674-meghalaya-1988/|title=Meghalaya 1988|website=Election Commission of India|access-date=3 April 2020}}</ref>
|}

===Tripura===
{{Main|1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Performance of the political parties<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3302-tripura-1988/|title=1988 Tripura Election result}}</ref>
! Party
! Seats contested
! Seats won
! No. of votes
! % of votes
! 1983 Seats
|-
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| 10
| 0
| 1,757
| 0.15%
| 0
|-
| [[Communist Party of India]]
| 1
| 0
| 9,314
| 0.82%
| 0
|-
| [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| 55
| 26
| 520,697
| 45.82%
| 37
|-
| [[Indian National Congress]]
| 46
| 25
| 424,241
| 37.33%
| 12
|-
| [[Janata Party]]
| 10
| 0
| 1,138
|0.10%
| 0
|-
| [[All India Forward Block]]
| 1
| 0
| 7,631
| 0.67%
| 0
|-
| [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]
| 2
| 2
| 18,182
| 1.60%
| 2
|-
| [[Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti]]
| 14
| 7
| 119,599
| 10.52%
| 6
|-
| [[Independent (politician)|Independents]]
| 81
| 0
| 33,846
| 2.98%
| 3
|-
! Total
! 220
! 60
! 1,136,405
!
!
|}

==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|1988 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]]}}

{{Indian elections}}

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[[Category:1988 elections in Asia|India]]
[[Category:1988 in India]]
[[Category:Elections in India by year]]

1988 elections in India - Revision history

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