1967 elections in India

Template:Infobox election Template:Politics of India The elections in India in 1967 included the 1967 Indian general election and nine state legislative assembly elections.

General election

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Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

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Assam

Template:Main Template:Election table |- !colspan=10| |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! % of
Seats !! Votes !! Vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 120 || 73 || 44.66% || 1354748 || 43.60% |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |All Party Hill Leaders Conference | | 12 || 9 || 57.86% || 108447 || 3.49% |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 22 || 7 || 30.19% || 108447 || 5.15% |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party | | 35 || 5 || 23.20% || 213094 || 6.86% |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Samyukta Socialist Party | | 17 || 4 || 26.37% || 101802 || 3.28% |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Swatantra Party | | 13 || 2 || 14.07% || 46187 || 1.49% |- | Template:Party name with colour | | 124 || 26 || 36.12% || 1004695 || 32.33% |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| Total Seats ! 105 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 5449305 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 3369230 (61.83%) |}

Bihar

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Delhi

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Goa, Daman and Diu

Template:Main Template:Election table |- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center colspan=2|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
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party||26||16||111,110||40.42% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|United Goans Party (Sequeira Group)||30||12||104,426||37.98% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||156||2||48,471||17.63% |- !colspan=2|Total^[1]!!226!!30!!264.007!!100% |- |}

Kerala

Template:Main Template:Election table |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote % |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh | | 22 || 0 || NA || 0 || 55,584 || 0.88 || NA |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 22 || 19 || Template:Increase 16 || 14.29 || 538,004 || 8.57 || Template:Increase 0.27 |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 59 || 52 || Template:Increase 12 || 39.10 || 1,476,456 || 23.51 || Template:Increase 3.64 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 133 || 9 || Template:Decrease 27 || 6.77 || 2,789,556 || 35.43 || Template:Increase 1.88 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party | | 7 || 0 || NA || 0 || 13,991 || 0.22 || NA |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Samyukta Socialist Party | | 21 || 19 || 6 || 14.29 || 527,662 || 8.4 || Template:Increase 0.27 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Swatantra Party | | 6 || 0 || NA || 14.29 || 13,105 || 0.21 || NA |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Kerala Congress | | 61 || 5 || Template:Decrease 1 || 3.76 || 475,172 || 7.57 || Template:Decrease 5.01 |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party name with colour | | 15 || 14 || Template:Increase 8 || 10.53 || 424,159 || 6.75 || Template:Increase 2.92 |- | Template:Party name with colour | | 75 || 15 || Template:Increase 3 || 11.28 || 531,783 || 8.47 || Template:Decrease 5.27 |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 133 (Template:Steady 0) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 8,613,658 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|6,518,272 (75.67%) |}

Madras

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Alliances	Party		Popular Vote	Vote %	Seats contested	Seats won	Change
United Front^[4] Seats: 179 Seat Change: Template:Increase 121 Popular Vote: 8,051,433 Popular Vote %: 52.59%	Template:Full party name with color	6,230,552	40.69%	174	137	Template:Increase 87
	Template:Full party name with color	811,232	5.30%	27	20	Template:Increase 12
	Template:Party name with color	623,114	4.07%	22	11	Template:Increase 11
	Template:Full party name with color	136,188	0.89%	4	4	Template:Increase 4
	Template:Full party name with color	95,494	0.62%	3	3	Template:Increase 3
	Template:Full party name with color	84,188	0.55%	3	2	Template:Increase 2
	DMK Backed Independents		70,665	0.46%	2	2	Template:Increase 2
Indian National Congress Seats: 51 Seat Change: Template:Decrease 84 Popular Vote: 6,293,378 Popular Vote %: 41.10%	Template:Full party name with color	6,293,378	41.10%	232	51	Template:Decrease 84
Others Seats: 4 Seat Change: Template:Decrease 4	Template:Full party name with color	591,214	3.86%	246	1	Template:Decrease 4
	Template:Full party name with color	275,932	1.80%	32	2	Template:Nochange
	Template:Full party name with color	44,714	0.29%	1	1	Template:Nochange
	Template:Full party name with color	31,286	0.20%	13	0	Template:Nochange
	Template:Full party name with color	22,745	0.15%	24	0	Template:Nochange
Total	11 Political Parties		15,310,702	100%	—	234	Template:Increase 28

Maharashtra

Template:Main Template:Election table |- 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
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||270||203||6,288,564||47.03%||Template:Decrease 12 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||58||19||1,043,239||7.80%||Template:Increase 4 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||41||10||651,077||4.87%||Template:Increase 4 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||66||8||545,935||4.08%||Template:Decrease 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Republican Party of India||79||5||890,377||6.66%||Template:Increase 5 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||166||4||1,092,670||8.17%||Template:Increase 4 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||48||4||616,466||4.61%||Template:Increase 4 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||11||1||145,083||1.08%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||463||16||1,948,223||14.57%||Template:Increase 1 |- |- | |align="left"|Total||1242||270||13,371,735|| |- |}

Manipur

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Mysore

Template:Main Template:Election table |- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Contestants
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change
|- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||216||126||Template:Decrease 12||3,636,374||48.43%||Template:Decrease 1.79 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||52||20||Template:Steady 0 ||666,662||8.88%||Template:Decrease 5.20 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Swatantra Party||45||16||Template:Increase 7||497,055 ||6.62%||Template:Decrease 0.53 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||17||6||||185,222||2.47%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||37||4||||211,966||2.82%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||||41||Template:Increase 14||2,129,786||28.36%||N/A |- | |align="left"|Total||||216|||||||| |- |}

Odisha

Template:Main Template:Election table |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net Change
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Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 140 || 31 || Template:Decrease 51 || 22.14 || 12,35,149 || 30.66 || Template:Decrease 12.62 |- | | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh | | 19 || 0 || "New" || 0 || 21,788 || 4.07 || "New" |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party | | 33 || 21 || Template:Increase 11 || 7.85 || 4,93,750 || 41.16 || Template:Increase 10.73 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 31 || 7 || Template:Increase 3 || 5 || 2,11,999 || 20.71 || Template:Decrease 6.61 |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 10 || 1 || "New" || 0.71 || 46,597 || 18.16 || "New" |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Swatantra Party | | 101 || 49 || "New" || 35 || 9,09,421 || 34.78 || "New" |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |JAC | | 47 || 26 || "New" || 18.57 || 5,42,734 || 37.17 || "New" |- | Template:Party name with colour | | 21 || 2 || N/A || 1.42 || 5,05,394 || 17.72 || N/A |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 140 (Template:Steady 0) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 98,73,057 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|43,48,838 (44.05%) |}

Punjab

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Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1967^[5]
	Part	contested	Seats won	change in seats	popular vote	%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Akali Dal - Sant Fateh Singh	59	24	Template:Increase 24	8,71,742	20.48
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	49	9	Template:Increase 1	4,18,921	9.84%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India	19	5	Template:Decrease 4	2,21,494	5.20%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	13	3	Template:Increase 3	1,38,857	3.26%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Republican Party of India	17	3	Template:Increase 3	76,089	1.79%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Akali Dal Master Tara Singh Group	61	2	Template:Increase 2	1,78,746	4.20%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Socialist Party	8	1	Template:Decrease 3	30,591	0.72%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Independents	235	9	Template:Decrease 9	6,83,369	16.05%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Indian National Congress	102	48	Template:Decrease 42	15,94,160	37.45%
	Others	19	0		43,144	1.02%
	Total^[6]	602	104		42,57,113

Parties in green box formed coalition government

Rajasthan

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Tripura

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Performance of the political parties in this election
Party	Seats contested	Seats won	No. of votes	% of votes	1963 Seats
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	5	0	1,506	0.35%	No data available
Communist Party of India	7	1	34,562	7.97%	No data available
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	2	93,739	21.61%	No data available
Indian National Congress	30	27	251,345	57.95%	No data available
Sanghata Socialist Party	1	0	83	0.02%	No data available
Independents	28	0	52,457	12.10%	No data available
Total	87	30	433,692

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Uttar Pradesh

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West Bengal

Template:Main Template:Election table |- 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
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|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||280||127||5,207,930||41.13%||Template:Decrease 30 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||135||43||2,293,026||18.11%||Template:Increase 43 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bangla Congress||80||34||1,286,028||10.16%||Template:Increase 34 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||62||16||827,196||6.53%||Template:Decrease 34 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|All India Forward Bloc||42||13||561,148||4.43%||Template:Nochange |- | |align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||26||7||269,234||2.13%||Template:Increase 7 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||26||7||238,694||1.88%||Template:Increase 2 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Revolutionary Socialist Party||16||6||238,694||2.14%||Template:Increase 2 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Socialist Unity Centre of India||8||4||238,694||0.72%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Marxist Forward Bloc||58||1||167,934||1.33%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Revolutionary Communist Party of India||58||1||167,934||1.33%||Template:Decrease 8 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||58||1||167,934||1.33%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Swatantra Party||21||1||102,576||0.81%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||327||31||1,708,011||13.49%||Template:Increase 20 |- | |align="left"|Total||1058||280||12,663,030|||| |- |}

References

↑ The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win one seat
↑ The Madras Legislative Assembly, 1962-67, A Review. assembly.tn.gov.in(24 August 1976).
↑ Tamil Nadu 1967.
↑ Voting Pattern in the Fourth General Election. I: D M K Success in Madras. Economic and Political Weekly({Template:Date).
↑ List of Polling Booth For Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1967. www.elections.in.
↑ Statistical Report on General Election Punjab 1967. Election Commission of India.
↑ 1967 Tripura Election result.

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[1] The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win one seat

[2] The Madras Legislative Assembly, 1962-67, A Review. assembly.tn.gov.in(24 August 1976).

[3] Tamil Nadu 1967.

[4] Voting Pattern in the Fourth General Election. I: D M K Success in Madras. Economic and Political Weekly({Template:Date).

[5] List of Polling Booth For Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1967. www.elections.in.

[6] Statistical Report on General Election Punjab 1967. Election Commission of India.

[7] 1967 Tripura Election result.

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1967 elections in India

General election

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

Assam

Bihar

Delhi

Goa, Daman and Diu

Gujarat

Haryana

Himachal Pradesh

Jammu and Kashmir

Kerala

Madras

Maharashtra

Manipur

Mysore

Odisha

Punjab

Rajasthan

Tripura

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

References

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