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{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 1991 elections in India
| previous_year = 1991
| election_date = 1992
| next_election = 1993 elections in India
| next_year = 1993
}}
{{Politics of India}}

'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1992'' included elections to the [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]], seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]] and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.

==Punjab Legislative Assembly election==
{{Main|1992 Punjab Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 1992<ref name="eci_nic_in1992">{{cite web |title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1992 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1992/StatisticalReport%20Punjab%201992.pdf |website=eci.nic.in |publisher=Election Commission of India |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</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" |Seats won 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||116||87||13,17,075||43.83%
|-
| {{party color cell|Shiromani Akali Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Shiromani Akali Dal]]||58||3||1,56,171||5.20%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||66||6||4,95,161||16.48%
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||20||4||1,09,386||3.64%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bahujan Samaj Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]||105||9||4,90,552||17.59%
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Communist Party of India (M)]]||17||1||72,061||2.40%
|-
|
|align="left"|[[Indian People's Front]]||2||1||2,292||0.08%
|-
| {{party color cell|Janata Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Dal]]||37||1||64,666||2.15%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||151||4||2,77,706||9.24%
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''<ref>The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.</ref>||'''579'''||'''117'''||''' 30,05,083'''||
|-
|}

==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|1992 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}

==President==
{{Main|1992 Indian presidential election}}
Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website<ref>{{Cite web|title=Backgrounder|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/pr.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000529113554/http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/pr.html|archive-date=2000-05-29|access-date=|website=pib.nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Election to the Office of President of India 2017|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/HandBooks/President_Election_08062017.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712110156/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/HandBooks/President_Election_08062017.pdf|archive-date=2017-07-12|website=eci.nic.in|publisher=Media Division, Election Commission of India|page=30}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!Candidate
!Electoral Values
|-
|[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]
|675,864
|-
|[[George Gilbert Swell]]
|346,485
|-
|[[Ram Jethmalani]]
|2,704
|-
|[[Joginder Singh (politician)|Joginder Singh]]
|1,135
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''1,026,188'''
|-
|}

==Vice-president==
{{Main|1992 Indian vice presidential election}}
{{election table|title=Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 1992<ref name=eci>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/President_VP_Elec2012/Vice%20Presidentail%20Election%20Background.pdf BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA]</ref>|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[K. R. Narayanan]]||align="left"|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]||700||99.86
|-
|
|align="left"|[[Joginder Singh (politician)|Joginder Singh]]||align="left"|[[Independent politician|Independent]]||1||0.14
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total
! style="text-align:right;"|701
! style="text-align:right;"|100.00
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||701||98.59
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||10||1.41
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||711||90.00
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||79||10.00
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|}

==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}}

[[Category:1992 elections in India]]
[[Category:1992 elections in Asia|India]]
[[Category:1992 in India]]
[[Category:Elections in India by year]]

1992 elections in India - Revision history

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