1983 elections in India

Template:Infobox election Template:Politics of India Elections in the Republic of India in 1983 included elections to six state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

Overall result

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
	Karnataka	Template:Full party name with color	R. Gundu Rao	Template:Full party name with color	Ramakrishna Hegde
17 February 1983	Meghalaya	Template:Full party name with color	Williamson A. Sangma	Template:Full party name with color	B. B. Lyngdoh
14–20 February 1983	Assam		President's Rule		Template:Full party name with color	Hiteswar Saikia
1 May 1983	Andhra Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy	Template:Full party name with color	N. T. Rama Rao
	Tripura	Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty	Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty
17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983	Jammu and Kashmir	Template:Full party name with color	Farooq Abdullah	Template:Full party name with color	Farooq Abdullah

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

s.no	party	seats contested	seats won	seats change	vote share	swing
1	Telugu Desam Party	289	202	+202	46.3%	+ 46.3%
2	Indian National Congress	294	60	-115	33.64%	-22.78%
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	28	5	-3	2.01%	-0.70%
4	Communist Party of India	48	6	+3	2.79%	+0.30%
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	81	3	+3	2.76%	+2.76%
6	Janata Party	44	1	-59	0.96%	-27.89%
7	others	1100	20	+5	5.00%	-4.20%

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" |Seats Contested
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Won
!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||193||95||4,272,318||33.07%||Template:Increase 36 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||221||82||5,221,419||40.42%||Template:Decrease 67 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||110||18||1,024,892||7.93%||Template:Increase 18 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||7||3||161,192||1.25%||Template:Nochange |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||4||3||115,320||0.89%||Template:Increase 3 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam||1||1||16,234||0.13%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||751||22||1,998,256||15.47%||Template:Increase 12 |- | |align="left"|Total||1365||224||12,919,459|||| |- |}

Meghalaya

← Summary of the 17 February 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"|	Indian National Congress (INC)	130,956	27.68	1.64 Template:Decrease	25	5 Template:Increase
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"|	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL)	118,593	24.92	0.15 Template:Increase	15	1 Template:Decrease
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"|	Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP)	91,386	19.32	0.08 Template:Increase	15	1 Template:Increase
	Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)	23,253	4.92		2	Template:Steady Template:Ref label
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Communist Party of India	2,442	0.52	0.1 Template:Decrease	0	Template:Steady
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Independents (IND)	106,378	22.49	2.33 Template:Decrease	3	5 Template:DecreaseTemplate:Ref label
Total		473,050	100.00		60	±0
Source: Election Commission of India

Template:Note labelIn the 1978 election, two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; at that time, the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.

Template:Note labelDoes not include the two PDIC candidates elected as independents in 1978.

Tripura

Performance of the political parties in this election

Party	Seats contested	Seats won	No. of votes	% of votes	1977 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	4	0	578	0.06%	-
Communist Party of India	1	0	7,657	0.83%	0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	56	37	433,608	46.78%	51
Indian Congress Secular	3	0	540	0.06%	-
Indian National Congress	45	12	282,859	30.51%	0
Janata Party	5	0	515	0.06%	0
All India Forward Block	1	0	6,549	0.71%	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	15,218	1.64%	2
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	14	6	97,039	10.47%	4
Independents	75	3	82,443	8.89%	2
Total	206	60	927,006

Local Elections

Delhi

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
|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||56||34||856,055||47.50% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||50||19||666,605||36.99% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Lok Dal||6||2||73,765||4.09% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Party||37||1||65,980||3.66% |- | ! Total !! 400 !! 56 !! 1,802,118 !! |- |}

External links

• Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Election Commission of India.