1996 elections in India

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Elections in the Republic of India in 1996 included the 1996 Indian general election, elections to eight state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

General Elections

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Overall Results

Date(s) State Government before election Chief Minister before election Government after election Chief Minister after election Maps
27 April 1996 Assam Template:Full party name with color Hiteswar Saikia Template:Full party name with color Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
Kerala Template:Full party name with color A. K. Antony Template:Full party name with color E. K. Nayanar
27 April 1996 Pondicherry Template:Full party name with color V. Vaithilingam Template:Full party name with color R. V. Janakiraman
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2 May 1996 Tamil Nadu Template:Full party name with color J. Jayalalithaa Template:Full party name with color M. Karunanidhi
13 May 1996 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 Bhajan Lal Bishnoi Template:Full party name with color Bansi Lal
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17 September 1996 Jammu and Kashmir President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Farooq Abdullah
30 September and 7 October 1996 Uttar Pradesh President's Rule Template:Full party name with color Mayawati

Legislative Assembly elections

Assam

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Haryana

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|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Haryana Vikas Party ||65 ||33 ||17,16,572 ||22.7% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Samta Party ||89 ||24 ||15,57,914 ||20.6% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party ||25 ||11 ||6,72,558 ||8.9% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independent ||2022 ||10 ||11,73,533 ||15.5% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress ||90 ||9 ||15,76,882 ||20.8% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) ||62 ||3 ||2,42,638 ||3.2% |- |}

Jammu and Kashmir

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In the 1996 assembly elections, 14 women contested, 10 of whom lost their deposits, while 2 were elected.[1] National Conference won 57 out of 86 seats.[2][3] BSP contested first time on 29 seats in the state and won 4 seats.[4] BJP rose from two seats in 1987 to 8 seats in 1996.[5] Template:Main The National Conference won 57 out of 86 seats.[6][7] The BSP contested first time on 29 seats in the state and won 4 seats.[4] The BJP rose from two seats in 1987 to 8 seats.[8]

Kerala

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Party-wise vote share of 1996 Kerala Assembly Elections[9]
Sl.No: Party Contested Won Popular Votes Share (%)
National Parties
1 All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) (AIIC(T)) 8 0 8,549 0.06
2 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 123 0 7,81,090 5.48
3 Communist Party of India (CPI) 22 18 10,86,350 7.62
4 Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) 62 40 30,78,723 21.59
5 Indian National Congress 94 37 43,40,717 30.43
6 Janata Dal (JD) 13 4 5,87,716 4.12
7 Janata Party (JP) 21 0 8,027 0.06
State Parties
1 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 12 0 17,872 0.13
2 All India Forward Bloc (FBL) 6 0 2,522 0.02
3 Indian Congress (Socialist) (IC(S)) 9 3 3,55,755 2.49
4 Kerala Congress (KEC) 10 6 4,42,421 3.10
5 Kerala Congress (Mani) (KCM) 10 5 4,53,614 3.18
6 Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) 22 13 10,25,556 7.19
7 Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) 6 5 2,94,744 2.07
8 Shiv Sena (SHS) 16 0 4,445 0.03
Unrecognised Parties
1 Bharatiya Labour Party (BLP) 1 0 3,632 0.03
2 Communist Marxist Party (CMPKSC) 3 0 69,934 0.49
3 Indian Labour Congress (ILC) 1 0 630 0.00
4 Indian National League (INL) 3 0 139775 0.89
5 Janadhipatya Samrakshana Samithi (JSS) 4 1 1,82,210 1.28
6 Kerala Congress (B) (KC(B)) 2 1 91,968 0.64
7 Kerala Congress (Joseph) (KCJ) 10 2 455748 2.9
8 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 50 0 1,02,226 0.06
9 Social Action Party (SAP) 9 0 1,916 0.19
10 Socialist Labour Action Party (SLAP) 1 0 58 0.07
11 Samajwadi Jan Parishad (SWJP) 1 0 167 0.00
Others/ Independents 672 5 10,95,761 7.68
Total 1,201 140 14,262,692 100

Puducherry

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Tamil Nadu

Template:Main Template:Election table !colspan=10| |- ! 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" | |221 |+214 |14,600,748 |style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 |53.77% |- |DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" | |173 | +171 |11,423,380 |42.07% |54.04% |- |TMC(M) ! style="background-color: #008080" | |39 | +39 |2,526,474 |9.3% |55.21% |- |CPI ! style="background-color: #0000FF" | |8 | +7 |575,570 |2.12% |42.95% |- |AIFB ! style="background-color: #800000" | |1 | +1 |75,324 |0.28% |76.18% |- ! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | |4 |-221 |7,354,723 |style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 |27.08% |- |AIADMK ! style="background-color: #008000" | |4 | -160 |5,831,383 |21.47% |29.24% |- |INC ! style="background-color: #00FFFF" | |0 | -60 |1,523,340 |5.61% |21.09% |-

! style="background-color:#ff2a00 ; color:black"|MDMK+ alliance ! style="background-color:#ff2a00 | |2 |0 |2,143,141 |style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 |7.89% |- |MDMK ! style="background-color: #ff2a00" | |0 |0 |1,569,168 |5.78% |7.6% |- |CPI(M) ! style="background-color: #000080" | |1 |0 |456,712 |1.68% |9.57% |- |JD ! style="background-color:Template:Party color " | |1 |0 |117,801 |0.43% |7.31% |- ! style="background-color:yellow; color:black"|PMK+ Alliance ! style="background-color:yellow" | |4 |+3 |1,252,275 |style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 |4.61% |- |PMK ! style="background-color: #800080" | |4 | +3 |1,042,333 |3.84% |7.61% |- |AIIC(T) ! style="background-color: " | |0 |0 |209,942 |0.77% |4.23% |- ! style="background-color:gray; color:white"|Others ! style="background-color:gray" | |3 |+1 |1,662,926 |style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 | 6.12% |- |BJP ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | |1 | +1 |490,453 |1.81% |2.93% |- |JP ! style="background-color: Template:Party color" | |1 | +1 |150,134 |0.55% |2.51% |- |IND ! style="background-color: " | |1 |0 |1,022,339 |3.76% |3.8% |- | style="text-align:center;" |Total ! style="background-color: " | | 234 | – |27,154,721 |style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" colspan=2 | 100% |- |}

Uttar Pradesh

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Party Contested Won Votes % Seats change
bgcolor= Template:Party color | Bharatiya Janata Party 414 174 18,028,820 32.5% Template:Decrease 3
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Samajwadi Party 281 110 12,085,226 21.8% Template:Increase 1
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Bahujan Samaj Party 296 67 10,890,716 19.6% Template:-
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Indian National Congress 126 33 4,626,663 8.3% Template:Increase 5
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Independent 2031 13 3,615,932 6.5% Template:Increase 5
Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party 38 8 1,065,730 1.9% Template:Increase 8 (new)
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Janata Dal 54 7 1,421,528 2.6% Template:Decrease 20
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Communist Party of India (Marxist) 11 4 1,421,528 0.8% Template:Increase 3
bgcolor= Template:Party color| All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) 37 4 735,327 1.3% Template:Increase 4 (new)
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Samta Party 9 2 221,866 0.4% Template:Increase 2 (new)
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Communist Party of India 15 1 327,231 0.6% Template:Decrease 2
bgcolor= Template:Party color| Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) 77 1 325,787 0.6% Template:Increase 1 (new)

West Bengal

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Party Candidates Seats Votes %
Left Front and allies Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Including candidates from Samajwadi Party contesting on CPI(M) tickets. 		213 153 13,670,198 37.16
All India Forward Bloc 34 21 1,912,183 5.20
Revolutionary Socialist Party 23 18 1,367,439 3.72
Communist Party of India 12 6 642,993 1.75
Marxist Forward Bloc 2 2 150,099 0.41
Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra) 2 2 129,367 0.35
Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Rasik Bhatt) 2 0 105,366 0.29
Biplobi Bangla Congress 1 1 60,453 0.16
Janata Dal 5 0 105,697 0.29
Indian National Congress 288 82 14,523,964 39.48
Bharatiya Janata Party 292 0 2,372,480 6.45
Gorkha National Liberation Front 3 3 161,498 0.44
Jharkhand Party (Naren) 8 1 145,503 0.40
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 26 0 134,436 0.37
Forward Bloc (Socialist) 20 1 123,316 0.34
Bahujan Samaj Party 48 0 67,853 0.18
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation 30 0 47,206 0.13
Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League 3 0 43,261 0.12
All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) 29 0 20,555 0.06
Muslim League 20 0 19,221 0.05
Amra Bangalee 46 0 17,330 0.05
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Mardi) 5 0 11,593 0.03
Pachim Banga Rajya Muslim League 5 0 5,359 0.01
Indian National League 7 0 4,480 0.01
Social Action Party 16 0 4,476 0.01
Jharkhand Party 5 0 3,533 0.01
Hul Jharkhand Party 2 0 3,309 0.01
Bharatiya Minorities Suraksha Mahasangh 2 0 2,448 0.01
Samajwadi Jan Parishad 2 0 1,218 0.00
Indian Democratic People's Party 3 0 515 0.00
All India Christian Democratic and Backward People's Party 1 0 392 0.00
Indian Union Muslim League 1 0 251 0.00
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha 2 0 178 0.00
Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh 1 0 49 0.00
Independents 844 4 898,677 2.44
Total 2,035 294 36,788,753 100
Source: Election Commission of India[11]

Rajya Sabha

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References

  1. ↑ Kudos to Mehbooba Mufti, but where are Kashmir's female politicians?.
  2. ↑ Key challenges: Harsh winter, boycott calls Night temperature likely to hover around freezing point during elections; fragile security situation may impact voting
  3. ↑ Question of Simple Majority
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statistical report on General Election, 1996 to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu & Kashmir.
  5. ↑ J&K Assembly poll: Rise of BJP changes political landscape of State. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Key challenges: Harsh winter, boycott calls Night temperature likely to hover around freezing point during elections; fragile security situation may impact voting.
  7. ↑ Question of Simple Majority.
  8. ↑ J&K Assembly poll: Rise of BJP changes political landscape of State. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 1996 to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Election Commission of India(1997)
  10. ↑ Uttar Pradesh 1996. Election Commission of India.
  11. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1996 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL

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