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{{Infobox election
| election_name = Elections in India
| country = India
| previous_election = 1996 elections in India
| previous_year = 1996
| election_date = 1997
| next_election = 1998 elections in India
| next_year = 1998
}}
{{Politics of India}}
'''Elections in the Republic of India''' in ''1997'' included, the [[1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly election]], elections to seats in the [[Rajya Sabha]] and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.

==Legislative Assembly elections==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
! Date(s)
!State
! colspan="2" |Government before election
!Chief Minister before election
! colspan="2" |Government after election
!Chief Minister after election
!Maps
|-
| rowspan="2" | 7 February 1997
| rowspan="2" |[[1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly election|Punjab]]
| {{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Rajinder Kaur Bhattal]]
| {{Full party name with color|Shiromani Akali Dal}}
| rowspan="2" |[[Parkash Singh Badal]]
| rowspan="2" |[[File:IN-PB.svg|50px]]
|-
| {{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|-
|}
===Punjab===
{{Main|1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly election}}
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 1997<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1997/StatiscialReport-PU97.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1887 to the Legislative Assembly of Punjab}} [[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" |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|Shiromani Akali Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Shiromani Akali Dal]]||92||75||38,73,099||37.64%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]||22||18||8,57,219||8.33%
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||105||14||27,36,346||26.38%
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||15||2||3,07,023||2.86%
|-
| {{party color cell|Bahujan Samaj Party}}
|align="left"|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]||67||1||7,69,675||6.37%
|-
| {{party color cell|Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann)}}
|align="left"|[[Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann)|Shiromani Akali Dal (M)]]||30||1||3,19,111||3.10%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||244||6||11,18,348||10.87%
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''<ref>The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.</ref>||'''693'''||'''117'''||''' 1,02,89,814'''||
|-
|}

==Legislative Assembly By-elections==
=== Jammu and Kashmir ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Results by constituency |
* Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency<ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/ByeElection/ByeApril1997/index.htm |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date = 1 January 2025 |title=Election Statistics - Bye Elections 1997 |publisher=Election Commission Of India |website=eci.gov.in}}</ref>
! colspan="2" |Assembly Constituency
!Turnout
! colspan="5" |Winner
! colspan="5" |Runner Up
! rowspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Margin
|-
! #k
! Names
!%
! Candidate
! colspan="2" | Party
! data-sort-type=number | Votes
!%
! Candidate
! colspan="2" | Party
! data-sort-type=number | Votes
!%
|-
|1||[[Doda Assembly constituency|Doda]]||66.08%||Khalid Najeeb||{{party name with color|Jammu & Kashmir National Conference}}||23,564||74.36%||Ajay Kumar||{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}||7,789||24.58%||style="background:{{party color|Jammu & Kashmir National Conference}}"|'''15,775'''
|-
|}

==Rajya Sabha==
{{Main|1997 Indian Rajya Sabha elections}}

==President==
{{Main|1997 Indian presidential election}}
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
![[States of India|States]]
!No. of MLA/MPs
!Value of each Vote
![[K. R. Narayanan]] (Votes)
!K. R. Narayanan (Values)
![[T. N. Seshan]] (Votes)
!T. N. Seshan (Values)
!Invalid (Votes)
!Invalid (Values)
|-
|[[Member of Parliament (India)|Members of Parliament]]
|776
|708
|676
|478,608
|26
|18,408
|32
|22,656
|-
|[[Andhra Pradesh]]
|294
|148
|254
|37,592
|9
|1,332
|17
|2,516
|-
|[[Arunachal Pradesh]]
|60
|8
|56
|448
|0
|0
|3
|24
|-
|[[Assam]]
|126
|116
|110
|12,760
|5
|580
|1
|116
|-
|[[Bihar]]
|324
|174
|285
|49,590
|8
|1,392
|15
|2,610
|-
|[[Goa]]
|40
|20
|35
|700
|2
|40
|3
|60
|-
|[[Gujarat]]
|182
|147
|156
|22,932
|11
|1,617
|7
|1,029
|-
|[[Haryana]]
|90
|112
|77
|8,624
|3
|336
|6
|672
|-
|[[Himachal Pradesh]]
|68
|51
|63
|3,213
|0
|0
|2
|102
|-
|[[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]
|87
|72
|74
|5,328
|1
|72
|4
|288
|-
|[[Karnataka]]
|224
|131
|191
|25,021
|13
|1,703
|11
|1,441
|-
|[[Kerala]]
|140
|152
|135
|20,520
|0
|0
|2
|304
|-
|[[Madhya Pradesh]]
|320
|130
|296
|38,480
|9
|1,170
|13
|1,690
|-
|[[Maharashtra]]
|288
|175
|173
|30,275
|96
|16,800
|1
|175
|-
|[[Manipur]]
|60
|18
|52
|936
|4
|72
|0
|0
|-
|[[Meghalaya]]
|60
|17
|43
|731
|10
|170
|4
|68
|-
|[[Mizoram]]
|40
|8
|34
|272
|2
|16
|0
|0
|-
|[[Nagaland]]
|60
|9
|55
|495
|2
|18
|0
|0
|-
|[[Orissa, India|Orissa]]
|147
|149
|132
|19,668
|0
|0
|9
|1,341
|-
|[[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]
|117
|116
|106
|12,296
|1
|116
|7
|812
|-
|[[Rajasthan]]
|200
|129
|174
|22,446
|4
|516
|12
|1,548
|-
|[[Sikkim]]
|32
|7
|31
|217
|0
|0
|0
|0
|-
|[[Tamil Nadu]]
|234
|176
|229
|40304
|2
|352
|2
|352
|-
|[[Tripura]]
|60
|26
|59
|1534
|0
|0
|0
|0
|-
|[[Uttar Pradesh]]
|425
|208
|377
|78,416
|24
|4,992
|7
|1,456
|-
|[[West Bengal]]
|294
|151
|272
|41,072
|5
|755
|4
|604
|-
|[[Delhi]]
|70
|58
|58
|3,364
|3
|174
|8
|464
|-
|[[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry]]
|30
|16
|28
|448
|0
|0
|1
|16
|-
|'''TOTAL'''
|'''4,848'''
|'''3,232'''
|'''4,231'''
|'''956,290'''
|'''240'''
|'''50,631'''
|'''171'''
|'''22,656'''
|-
|align=left colspan=9|Source: Election Commission of India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alfa.nic.in/hm/result.html |title=Presidential Election Results – 1997 |work=[[Internet Archive]] |publisher=[[Indian Parliament]] |accessdate=23 May 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970804211707/http://alfa.nic.in/hm/result.html |archivedate=4 August 1997 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|}

==Vice president==
{{Main|1997 Indian vice presidential election}}
{{election table|title=Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/President_VP_Elec2012/Vice%20Presidentail%20Election%20Background.pdf |title=Background Material Regarding Fourteenth Election to the Office of the Vice-President, 2012 |publisher=[[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|Janata Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Krishan Kant]]||align="left"|[[Janata Dal]]||441||61.76
|-
| {{party color cell|Shiromani Akali Dal}}
|align="left"|[[Surjit Singh Barnala]]||align="left"|[[Shiromani Akali Dal|SAD]]||273||38.24
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total
! style="text-align:right;"|714
! style="text-align:right;"|100.00
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
|-
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||714||93.95
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||46||6.05
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||760||96.20
|-
|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||30||3.80
|-
|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}}

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