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'''General elections''' were held in [[India]] in 1989 to elect the members of the [[9th Lok Sabha]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Elections 1989: Congress(I) faces prospect of being routed in Bihar|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/elections-1989-congressi-faces-prospect-of-being-routed-in-bihar/1/324190.html}}</ref> The incumbent [[Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress (I)]] government under the premiership of [[Rajiv Gandhi]] was defeated by the [[National Front (India)|National Front]], an alliance forged by [[Janata Dal]], which won a plurality of seats. The alliance formed the government with outside support from [[Bharatiya Janata Party|Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)]].<ref>{{cite web|date=29 November 2008|title=V. P. Singh, a Leader of India Who Defended Poor, Dies at 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30singh.html?_r=1&|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dDH9q7nVQ8C&pg=PA124|title=Indian Parliamentary Democracy|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|year=2003|isbn=978-81-269-0193-7|page=124}}</ref> [[Vishwanath Pratap Singh|V. P. Singh]] was sworn in as the seventh [[Prime Minister of India]] on 2 December 1989.
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hindi.eci.gov.in/files/file/7527-election-law-reports-vol-lxxxvi-1989/// | title=Elections in Gujarat in 1989 }}</ref>

BJP wins 12 seats, Janata Dal wins 11 and Congress wins 3 seats out of a total of 26 seats.

== Party-wise results summary==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan=2|Party
!Seats won
|-
|
|BJP
|12
|-
|
|Janata Dal
|11
|-
| bgcolor="{{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|[[Indian National Congress|Congress]]
|3
|-
|}

== Results- Constituency wise ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!No
!Constituency
!Winner
!Party
|-
!1
|[[Kachchh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kachchh]]
|BABU BHAI MEGHJI SHAH
|BJP
|-
!2
|[[Surendranagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Surendranagar]]
|KOLI PATEL SOMABHAI GANDHI
|BJP
|-
!3
|[[Jamnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Jamnagar]]
|KORADIYA CHANDRESH KUMAR VALJIBHAI

(CHANDRESH PATEL)
|BJP
|-
!4
|[[Rajkot (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rajkot]]
|VEKARIA SHIVLAL NAGIBHAI
|BJP
|-
!5
|Porbandar
|MANVAR BALVANTBHAI BACHUBHAI
|JD
|-
!6
|[[Junagadh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Junagadh]]
|SHEKHADA GOVINDHHAL KANJIBHAI
|JD
|-
!7
|[[Amreli (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amreli]]
|MANUBHAI KOTADIYA
|JD
|-
!8
|[[Bhavnagar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhavnagar]]
|JAMOD SHASHIKANT MAVJIBHAI
|INC
|-
!9
|Dhandhuka (SC)
|RATILAL KALIDAS VERMA
|BJP
|-
!10
|AHMEDABAD
|HARIN PATHAK
| |BJP
|-
!11
|Gandhinagar
|VEGHELA SHANKARJI LAXMANJI
|BJP
|-
!12
|[[Mahesana (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mahesana]]
|A.K.PATEL
| |BJP
|-
!13
|[[Patan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patan]] (SC)
|CHAWADA KHEM CHANDBHAI SOMABHAI
| |JD
|-
!14
|BANASKANTHA
|SHAH JAYANTILAL VIRCHANDBHAI
|JD
|-
!15
|SABARKANTHA
|MAGANBHAI MANIBHAI PATEL
| |JD
|-
!16
|Kapadvanj
|GABHAJI MANGAJI THAKOR
|BJP
|-
!17
|DOHAD (ST)
|SOMAIBAHI DAMOR
| |INC
|-
!18
|Godhra
|PATEL SHANTILA PURUSHOTTAMDAS
| |JD
|-
!19
|KAIRA
|CHAUHAN PRABHATSINH HATHISINH
| |JD
|-
!20
|[[Anand (Lok Sabha constituency)|Anand]]
|PATEL NATHUBHAI MANIBHAI
| |BJP
|-
!21
|Chota Udaipur (ST)
|RAHAWA NARANBHAI JAMALBHAI
| |JD
|-
!22
|BARODA
|KOKO ALIAS PRAKASH KANUBHAI BRAHMBHATT
| |JD
|-
!23
|BROACH
|DESHMUKH CHANDUBHAI SHAMBHAI
| |BJP
|-
!24
|[[Surat (Lok Sabha constituency)|Surat]]
|KASHIRAM RANA
| |BJP
|-
!25
|MANDAVI (ST)
|GHAMIT CHHITUBHAI DEVIBHAI
| |INC
|-
!26
|BULSAR (ST)
|AJUNBHAI LALLUBHAI PATEL
| |JD
|}

==References==
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{{Gujarat elections}}

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