1978 elections in India

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Elections in the Republic of India in 1978 included elections to seven state legislative assemblies.

Overall result

Date(s) State Government before Chief Minister before Government after Elected Chief Minister Maps
25 February 1978 Andhra Pradesh Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress (R) Jalagam Vengala Rao Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress (I) Marri Channa Reddy File:IN-AP.svg
Arunachal Pradesh New State was created Template:Full party name with color Prem Khandu Thungan File:IN-AR.svg
Assam Template:Full party name with color Sarat Chandra Sinha Template:Full party name with color Golap Borbora File:IN-AS.svg
Karnataka President's Rule Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress (I) D. Devaraj Urs File:IN-KA.svg
Meghalaya Template:Full party name with color Williamson A. Sangma Template:Full party name with color Darwin Diengdoh Pugh File:IN-ML.svg
25 February 1978 Maharashtra Template:Full party name with color Vasantdada Patil Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress (I) Vasantdada Patil File:IN-MH.svg
Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress (U)
17 and 20 May 1978 Mizoram Template:Full party name with color
(contested as Independent) 		C. Chhunga Template:Full party name with color T. Sailo File:IN-MZ.svg

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

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PARTY [1] SEATS VOTES POLLED VOTE % IN
NATIONAL PARTIES CONTESTED WON FD VOTES % SEATS
1. CPI 31 6 12 501452 2.49% 23.40%
2. CPM 22 8 1 546262 2.71% 34.65%
3. INC 257 30 130 3426850 17.01% 19.48%
4 . INC(I) 290 175 18 7908220 39.25% 39.69%
5 . JNP 270 60 36 5812532 28.85% 31.52%
STATE PARTIES
6. ADK 9 0 9 38691 0.19% 6.22%
7. DMK 2 0 2 6547 0.03% 4.12%
REGISTERED (Unrecognised) PARTIES
8. BCM 2 0 2 2123 0.01% 1.53%
9. RPI 1 0 1 500 0.00% 0.69%
10 . RPK 13 0 11 53497 0.27% 6.03%
11 . RRP 1 0 1 611 0.00% 1.06%
INDEPENDENTS
12. IND 640 15 593 1852808 9.20% 11.35%
Grand Total : 1538 294 816 20150093

Arunachal Pradesh

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Assam

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Sl No Party Abbreviation Party-type Contested Won Votes polled % Vote % in seats contested
1 Communist Party of India CPI National 35 5 4.09 14.39
2 Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPM National 27 11 5.62 25.87
3 Indian National Congress INC National 126 26 23.62 23.62
4 Indian National Congress (I) INC(I) National 115 8 8.78 9.84
5 Janata Party JNP National 117 53 27.55 29.95
6 All India Forward Bloc FBL State 3 0 0.09 4.28
7 Plain Tribals Council of Assam PTC State 9 4 2.60 32.54
8 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) RSP State 6 0 0.44 8.85
9 All India Gorkha League IGL Registered 1 0 0.04 6.08
10 Revolutionary Communist Party of India RCI Registered 10 4 1.40 17.68
11 Socialist Unity Centre of India SUC Registered 4 0 0.07 2.29
12 Independent IND 15 25.67 26.50
Total 126
Source: Statistical Report on Legislative Assembly election of Assam, 1978

Karnataka

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 (Indira)||214||149||||5,543,756||44.25%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Party||222||59||||4,754,114||37.95%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||6||3||Template:Steady||148,567||1.19%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||212||2||||1,001,553||7.99%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Republican Party of India||3||1||||22,443||0.18%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||||10||Template:Decrease 10||940,677||7.51%||N/A |- | |align="left"|Total||||224|||| |||| |- |}

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"|Janata Party||215||99||5,701,399||27.99%||Template:Increase 99 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||259||69||5,159,828||25.33%||Template:Decrease 159 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Indira)||203||62||3,735,308||18.34%||Template:Increase 62 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||88||13||1,129,172||5.54%||Template:Increase 6 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||12||9||345,008||1.69%||Template:Increase 8 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|All India Forward Bloc||6||3||166,497||0.82%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Republican Party of India||25||2||215,487||1.06%||Template:Nochange |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Republican Party of India (Khobragade)||23||2||287,533||1.41%||Template:Increase 2 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||48||1||301,056||1.48%||Template:Decrease 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||894||28||2,864,023||14.06%||Template:Increase 5 |- | |align="left"|Total||1819||288||20,367,221||100%|| |- |}

Meghalaya

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Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Won +/−
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"| Indian National Congress (INC) 109,654 28.96 19.07 Template:Increase 20 11 Template:Increase
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"| All Party Hill Leaders Conference (APHLC) 94,362 24.92 10.75 Template:Decrease 16 16 Template:Decrease
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"| Hill State People's Democratic Party (HSPDP) 72,852 19.24 14Template:Ref label
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"| Indian National Congress (I) 5,447 1.44 0
bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Communist Party of India 2,361 0.62 0.05 Template:Increase 0 Template:Steady
bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Independents (IND) 93,970 24.82 29.04 Template:Decrease 10Template:Ref label 9 Template:Decrease
Total 378,646 100.00 60 ±0
Source: Election Commission of India[2]

Template:Note label The HSPDP won 8 seats in the 1972 election, but the party's representatives were recorded as independents at the time of that election.[3]

Template:Note labelTwo candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.[4]

Mizoram

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References

  1. ↑ Election Results, 1978, Andhra Pradesh.
  2. ↑ Meghalaya 1978. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya. International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies({Template:Date).
  4. ↑ Regionalism in Meghalaya{{#if:Gupta|, Gupta}. South Asian Publishers(2005). ISBN 978-81-7003-288-5

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