1990 elections in India

Overall result

State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after
Maharashtra	Template:Full party name with color	Sharad Pawar	Template:Full party name with color	Sharad Pawar
Himachal Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Virbhadra Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Shanta Kumar
Gujarat	Template:Full party name with color	Madhav Singh Solanki	Template:Full party name with color	Chimanbhai Patel
Rajasthan	Template:Full party name with color	Hari Dev Joshi	Template:Full party name with color	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Madhya Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Shyama Charan Shukla	Template:Full party name with color	Sunder Lal Patwa
Manipur	Template:Full party name with color	Raj Kumar Jaichandra Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Raj Kumar Ranbir Singh
Pondicherry	Template:Full party name with color	M. O. H. Farook	Template:Full party name with color	M. D. R. Ramachandran
Odisha	Template:Full party name with color	Hemananda Biswal	Template:Full party name with color	Biju Patnaik
Bihar	Template:Full party name with color	Jagannath Mishra	Template:Full party name with color	Lalu Prasad Yadav
Arunachal Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Gegong Apang	Template:Full party name with color	Gegong Apang

Party		Seats contested	Seats	Seat change	Popular vote	Percentage
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Janata Dal	276	122	New Party	8,212,666	25.61%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Indian National Congress	323	71	Template:Decrease 125	7,946,635	24.78%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Bharatiya Janata Party	237	39	Template:Increase 23	3,721,392	11.61%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Communist Party of India	109	23	Template:Increase 11	2,112,887	6.59%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	82	19	Template:Increase 10	1,008,174	3.14%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Indian People's Front	82	7	New Party	889,068	2.77%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	31	6	Template:Increase 5	427,214	1.33%
	Janata Party (JP)	158	3	New Party	494,717	1.54%
	Marxist Co-ordination	11	2	New Party	70,365	0.22%
	Jharkhand Dal	28	1	New Party	134,827	0.42%
	Socialist Party (Lohia)	47	1	New Party	109,871	0.34%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" \|	Independents	4320	30	Template:Increase 1	5,907,134	18.42%
	Total	6629	324		32,063,793

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Parties and coalitions	Popular vote		Seats
Parties and coalitions	Votes	%	Won	+/−
Janata Dal	3,725,148	29.36	70	+70
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	3,386,256	26.69	67	+56
Indian National Congress (INC)	3,899,159	30.74	33	−116
Yuva Vikas Party (YVP)	1,07,220	2.47	1	+1
JNP	69,829	0.55	0	0
CPM	37,436	0.30	0	0
CPI	11,377	0.09	0	0
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	4,565	0.04	0	0
Independents (IND)	1,323,790	10.44	11

Total	12,685,977	100	182	±0

Valid votes	12,685,977	98.03
Invalid votes	2,69,244	1.97
Votes cast / turnout	12,955,221	52.20
Registered voters	24,820,379

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	269	220	+162	39.14%
2	Indian National Congress	318	56	-194	33.38%
3	Janata Dal	115	28	N/A	7.71%
4	Communist Party of India	183	3	N/A	1.25%
5	Bahujan Samaj Party	63	2	N/A	3.54%
6	Krantikari Samajwadi Manch	20	+1		0.40%
7	Independent	320	10	+4	12.31%
	Total		320

Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Votes polled	Votes (%)	Seat change
Indian National Congress	276	141	11,334,773	38.17%	Template:Decrease 20
Shiv Sena	183	52	4,733,834	15.94%	Template:Increase 52
Bharatiya Janata Party	104	42	3,180,482	10.71%	Template:Increase 26
Janata Dal	214	24	3,776,737	12.72%	Template:Increase 24
Peasants and Workers Party of India	40	8	719,807	2.42%	Template:Decrease 5
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	13	3	258,433	0.87%	Template:Increase 1
Communist Party of India	16	2	219,080	0.74%	Template:Nochange
Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha	71	1	290,503	0.98%	Template:Increase 1
Independents	2286	13	4,036,403	13.59%	Template:Decrease 7