1980 elections in India

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General Elections

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Overall result

Date(s) State Government before Chief Minister before Government after Elected Chief Minister Maps
28 May 1980 Tamil Nadu President's Rule Template:Full party name with color M. G. Ramachandran
Goa President's Rule Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress (Urs) Pratapsingh Rane
Manipur President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Raj Kumar Dorendra Singh
Arunachal Pradesh President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Gegong Apang
Bihar President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Jagannath Mishra
Maharashtra President's Rule Template:Full party name with color A. R. Antulay
Madhya Pradesh President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Arjun Singh
Uttar Pradesh President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Odisha President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Rajasthan President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Jagannath Pahadia
Gujarat President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Madhav Singh Solanki
Pondicherry President's Rule Template:Full party name with color M. D. R. Ramachandran
Kerala President's Rule Template:Full party name with color E. K. Nayanar
Punjab President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Darbara Singh

Legislative Assembly elections

Arunachal Pradesh

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Bihar

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Goa, Daman and Diu

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Party Votes % Seats +/–
Indian National Congress (Urs) 134,651 38.36 20 New
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 127,714 36.36 7 –8
Janata Party 14,431 4.11 0 –3
Indian National Congress 12,338 3.51 0 –10
Janata Party (Secular) 6,045 1.72 0 New
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1,089 0.31 0 New
Independents 54,773 15.60 3 +1
Invalid/blank votes 12,232 – – –
Total 363,273 100 30 +1
Registered voters/turnout 522,652 69.51 – –
Source: Election Commission of India

Gujarat

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Kerala

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Party Wise Results[1]
Party Seats Alliance
Communist Party of India (CPI) 17 Left Democratic Front
Communist Party of Indian (Marxist) (CPM) 35
Indian National Congress (U) (INC (U)) 21
Kerala Congress (Pillai Group) (KCP) 1
Kerala Congress (M) (KCM) 8
All India Muslim League (AIMUL) 5
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) 6
Indian National Congress (I) (INC (I)) 17 United Democratic Front
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) 14
Kerala Congress (J) (KEC) 6
Janata Party (JNP) 5
National Democratic Party (NDP) 3
Praja Socialist Party (PSP) 1
Independent (IND) 1 N/A
Total 140 LDF-93, UDF-46, IND-1

Madhya Pradesh

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SN Party Seats
Contested 		Seats
won 		Seats
Changed 		%
Votes
1 Indian National Congress (I) 320 246 47.52%
2 Bharatiya Janata Party 310 60 30.34%
3 Communist Party of India 46 2 1.50%
4 Janata Party 124 2 2.88%
5 Janata Party (Secular) 204 1 4.82%
6 Republican Party of India (Khobragade) 13 1 0.33%
6 Independent 288 8 10.26%
Total 320

Maharashtra

Template:Main Template:Election table !colspan=10| |- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center colspan=2|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat +/- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote % !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote % +/- |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Indira)Template:Composition bar||286||186||Template:Increase 124||7,809,533||44.50%||Template:Increase 26.16% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Urs)Template:Composition bar||192||47||Template:Decrease 22 (from INC seats)||3,596,582||20.49%||Template:Decrease 4.84% (from INC vote share) |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata PartyTemplate:Composition bar||111||17||Template:Decrease 82||1,511,042||8.61%||Template:Decrease 19.38% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata PartyTemplate:Composition bar||145||14||Template:Increase 14||1,645,734||9.38%||Template:Increase 9.38% (New Party) |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of IndiaTemplate:Composition bar||41||9||Template:Decrease 4||726,338||4.14%||Template:Decrease 1.40% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of IndiaTemplate:Composition bar||17||2||Template:Increase 1||230,570||1.31%||Template:Decrease 0.17% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)Template:Composition bar||10||2||Template:Decrease 7||162,651||0.93%||Template:Decrease 0.76% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Republican Party of India (Khobragade)Template:Composition bar||42||1||Template:Decrease 1||239,286||1.36%||Template:Decrease 0.05% |- |Template:Full party name with color |36 |0 |Template:Down 2 |132,798 |0.76% |Template:Down 0.30% |- |Template:Full party name with color |1 |0 |Template:Down3 |5,598 |0.03% |Template:Down0.79% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|IndependentsTemplate:Composition bar||612||10||Template:Decrease 18||1,409,177||8.03%||Template:Decrease 6.03% |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1537||288||Template:No change||17,548,655||53.30%||Template:Decrease 14.29% |- |}

Manipur

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Odisha

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 % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress (I) | | 147 || 118 || "NEW" || 80.27 || 30,37,487 || 47.78 || "NEW" |- | | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress (U) | | 98 || 2 || "NEW" || 1.36 || 4,46,818 || 10.49 || "NEW" |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party | | 28 || 0 || NA || 0|| 86,421 || 7.09 || NA |- | Template:Party color cell | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 27 || 4 || Template:Steady 0|| 3.57 || 2,33,971 || 2.72 || Template:Decrease 3.4 |- | Template:Party name with colour | | 248 || 7 || N/A || 4.76 || 7,55,087 || 15.77 || N/A |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 147 (Template:Increase 7) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,39,09,115 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|65,49,074 (47.08%) |}

Puducherry

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Punjab

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Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1980[4]
Party contested Seats won change in seats popular vote %
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Indian National Congress 117 63 Template:Increase46 28,25,827 45.19%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Shiromani Akali Dal 73 37 Template:Decrease21 16,83,266 26.92%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Communist Party of India 18 9 Template:Increase2 4,03,718 6.46%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Communist Party of India (Marxist) 13 5 Template:Decrease3 2,53,985 4.06%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Bharatiya Janata Party 41 1 (new) 4,05,106 6.48%
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Independents 376 2 Template:Unchanged 4,07,799 6.52%
Others 84 0 - 2,73,215 4.36%
Total 722 117 62,52,916

Rajasthan

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Tamil Nadu

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Election map of results based on parties. Colours are based on the results table on the left

Template:Election table |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Alliance/Party !style="width:4px" | ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats won ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Popular Vote ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Adj. %‡ |- ! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | 162 | +14 | 9,328,839 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 48.9% |- |AIADMK ! style="background-color: #008000" | | 129 | -1 | 7,303,010 | 38.8% | 50.4% |- |CPI(M) ! style="background-color: #000080" | | 11 | -1 | 596,406 | 3.2% | 47.6% |- |CPI ! style="background-color: #0000FF" | | 9 | +4 | 501,032 | 2.7% | 43.9% |- |GKC ! style="background-color: teal" | | 6 | +6 | 322,440 | 1.7% | 44.1% |- |IND ! style="background-color: olive" | | 6 | +6 | 488,296 | 2.6% | |- |FBL ! style="background-color: #800000" | | 1 | – | 65,536 | 0.4% | 44.6% |- |INC(U) ! style="background-color:" | | 0 | – | 52,119 | 0.3% | 29.3% |- ! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | 69 | -6 | 8,371,718 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 44.4% |- |DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" | | 37 | -11 | 4,164,389 | 22.1% | 45.7% |- |INC(I) ! style="background-color: #00FFFF" | | 31 | +4 | 3,941,900 | 20.9% | 43.4% |- |IND ! style="background-color: lime" | | 1 | +1 | 265,429 | 1.4% | |- ! style="background-color:gray; color:white"|Others ! style="background-color:gray" | | 3 | -8 | 1,144,449 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 6.1% |- |JNP(JP) ! style="background-color: #FFFF00" | | 2 | -8 | 522,641 | 2.8% | 6.9% |- |IND ! style="background-color: #666666" | | 1 | – | 598,897 | 3.2% | – |- | style="text-align:center;" |Total ! style="background-color: " | | 234 | – | 18,845,006 | 100% | style="text-align:center;" | – |- |}Template:Refbegin ‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India[5] and Keesing's Report[6] Template:Refend

Uttar Pradesh

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Party name Seats
Indian National Congress (INC) 309
Janata Party (Secular) (JNP (SC)) 59
Indian National Congress (U) (INC (U)) 13
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 11
Communist Party of India (CPI) 6
Janata Party (JNP(JP)) 4
Janata Party (Secular) (JNP(SR)) 4
Soshit Samaj Dal (Akhil Bharatiya) (SSD) 1
Independent 17
Total 425

References

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named :0
  2. ↑ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1980 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH. Election Commission of India.
  3. ↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh, Chief Electoral Officer.
  4. ↑ Punjab Assembly Election Results in 1980, Elections.in.
  5. ↑ 1980 Election Statistical Report, Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  6. ↑ Keesing's Statistical Report

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