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Elections in the Republic of India in 1989 included the 1989 Indian general election, elections to eight state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

General election

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Overall result

Date(s) State Government before Chief Minister before Government after Elected Chief Minister Maps
21 January 1989 and 11 March 1989 Tamil Nadu President's Rule Template:Full party name with color M. Karunanidhi
22 November 1989 Andhra Pradesh Template:Full party name with color N. T. Rama Rao Template:Full party name with color Marri Chenna Reddy
Goa Template:Full party name with color Pratapsingh Rane Template:Full party name with color Pratapsingh Rane
Karnataka President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Veerendra Patil
Mizoram President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Lal Thanhawla
Nagaland President's Rule Template:Full party name with color S. C. Jamir
Uttar Pradesh Template:Full party name with color Narayan Dutt Tiwari Template:Full party name with color Mulayam Singh Yadav
26 November 1989 Sikkim Template:Full party name with color Nar Bahadur Bhandari Template:Full party name with color Nar Bahadur Bhandari

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

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No Party Seats Contested Seats Won Seats change Vote Share Swing
1 Indian National Congress 287 181 +131 47.09% +3.67%
2 Telugu Desam Party 241 74 -128 36.54% -9.67%
3 Communist Party of India 19 8 -3 2.31% -0.05%
4 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 15 6 -5 2.46% +0.15%
5 Bharatiya Janata Party 12 5 -3 1.78% +0.46%
6 Janata Dal 4 1 +1 0.37% +0.37%
7 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 35 4 +4 1.99 +1.99%
8 Independent (politician) 15 +6 6.58% -2.52%

Goa

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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"|Indian National Congress||221||178||7,990,142||43.76%||Template:Increase 113 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Dal||209||24||4,943,854||27.08%||New Party |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||118||4||755,032||4.14%||Template:Increase 2 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Party (JP)||217||2||2,070,341||11.34%||Template:Decrease 137 |- | |align="left"|Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha||105||2||654,801||3.59%||New Party |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|AIADMK||1||1||32,928||0.18%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Muslim League||13||1||80,612||0.44%||New Party |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||1088||12||1,482,482||8.12%||Template:Decrease 1 |- | |align="left"|Total||2043||224||18,257,909|| |- |}

Mizoram

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Nagaland

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Sikkim

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Tamil Nadu

Template:Main 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:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | 169 | +137 | 9,135,220 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 37.9% |- |DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" | | 150 | +126 | 8,001,222 | 33.2% | 38.7% |- |CPI(M) ! style="background-color: #000080" | | 15 | +10 | 851,351 | 3.5% | 36.5% |- |JNP ! style="background-color: #FFFF00" | | 4 | +1 | 282,647 | 1.2% | 29.1% |- ! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | | 34 | -100 | 7,757,452 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 32.2% |- |AIADMK(J) ! style="background-color: lime" | | 27 | rowspan=3 style="text-align:right;"|-101 | 5,098,687 | 22.2% | 25.0% |- |AIADMK(JA) ! style="background-color: olive" | | 2 | 2,214,965 | 9.2% | 12.2% |- |AIADMK(United) ! style="background-color: #008000" | | 2 | 148,630 | 0.6% | 37.4% |- |CPI ! style="background-color: #0000FF" | | 3 | +1 | 295,170 | 1.2% | 21.3% |- ! style="background-color:gray; color:white"|Others ! style="background-color:gray" | | 31 | -37 | 7,218,796 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 29.9% |- |INC ! style="background-color: #00FFFF" | | 26 | -37 | 4,780,714 | 19.8% | 21.8% |- |IND ! style="background-color: #666666" | | 5 | +1 | 2,164,484 | 9.0% | 9.1% |- | style="text-align:center;" |Total ! style="background-color: " | | 234 | – | 24,111,468 | 100% | style="text-align:center;" | – |- |} Template:Refbegin : Seat change reflects 33 MLAs that supported Jayalalithaa faction and 97 MLAs that supported Janaki faction (2 MLAs that supported her had their constituency election in a later March by-election after the merge). It also reflects GKC merging with INC and AKD not winning a seat after winning a seat in 1984.
: 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.
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Uttar Pradesh

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Rajya Sabha

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References

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