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Elections in the Republic of India in 1987 included elections to six state legislative assemblies, seats in the Rajya Sabha and the posts of President and vice president.

Overall Results

Date(s) State Government before election Chief Minister before election Government after election Chief Minister after election Maps
16 February 1987 Mizoram Template:Full party name with color Laldenga Template:Full party name with color Laldenga
23 March 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Template:Full party name with color Farooq Abdullah Template:Full party name with color Farooq Abdullah
Kerala Template:Full party name with color K. Karunakaran Template:Full party name with color E. K. Nayanar
10 April 1987 West Bengal Template:Full party name with color Jyoti Basu Template:Full party name with color Jyoti Basu
Haryana Template:Full party name with color Bansi Lal Template:Full party name with color Devi Lal
18 November 1987 Nagaland Template:Full party name with color Hokishe Sema Template:Full party name with color Hokishe Sema

Legislative Assembly elections

Haryana

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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
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|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Lok Dal||69||60||2,349,397||38.58% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||20||16||613,819||10.08% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||0||5||1,776,820||29.18% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||4||1||47,434||0.78% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||5||1||32,738||0.54% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||1045||7||1,128,803||18.54% |- | ! Total !! 1322 !! 90 !! 6,089,130 !! |- |}

Jammu and Kashmir

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Kerala

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Party Wise Results[1][2][3]
Party Seats
Communist Party of India (CPI) 16
Communist Party of Indian (Marxist) (CPM) 38
Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha) ICS(SCS) 6
Indian National Congress (INC) 33
Janta Party (JNP) 7
Lok Dal (LKD) 1
Kerala Congress (KEC) 5
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) 15
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) 5
Independent (IND) 14
Total 140

Mizoram

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Nagaland

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West Bengal

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Party Candidates Seats Votes %
Left Front Communist Party of India (Marxist) 212 187 10,285,723 39.12
All India Forward Bloc 34 26 1,534,795 5.84
Revolutionary Socialist Party 23 18 1,036,138 3.94
Communist Party of India 12 11 503,854 1.92
Revolutionary Communist Party of India 3 1 118,985 0.42
Marxist Forward Bloc 2 2 107,732 0.41
Biplobi Bangla Congress 1 0 42,261 0.16
West Bengal Socialist Party and
Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
7 6 288,915 1.10
Indian National Congress (I) 294 40 10,989,520 41.81
Socialist Unity Centre of India 46 2 237,674 0.90
Indian Union Muslim League 36 1 162,850 0.62
Bharatiya Janata Party 57 0 134,867 0.51
Janata Party 30 0 41,475 0.16
Lok Dal 18 0 10,032 0.04
Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha) 4 0 3,335 0.01
Independents 718 0 784,937 2.99
Total 1,497 294 26,283,093 100
Source:ECI[4]

Rajya Sabha

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President

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Candidate Electoral Values
R. Venkataraman 740,148
V. R. Krishna Iyer 281,550
Mithilesh Kumar 2,223
Total 1,023,921

Vice-president

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References

  1. Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Election Commission of India(1987)
  2. Kerala Assembly Election Results in 1987. www.elections.in. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  3. Red letter day in Kerala: Congress(I) out of power, Left Democratic Front forms govt. India Today(April 15, 1987). Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  4. Statistical Report on General Election, 1987 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission of India.

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