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Elections in the Republic of India in 1997 included, the 1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, elections to seats in the Rajya Sabha and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.
Legislative Assembly elections
| Date(s) | State | Government before election | Chief Minister before election | Government after election | Chief Minister after election | Maps | ||
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| 7 February 1997 | Punjab | Template:Full party name with color | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | Template:Full party name with color | Parkash Singh Badal | 
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Punjab
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of Candidates
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
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|align="left"|Shiromani Akali Dal||92||75||38,73,099||37.64%
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|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||22||18||8,57,219||8.33%
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|align="left"|Indian National Congress||105||14||27,36,346||26.38%
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|align="left"|Communist Party of India||15||2||3,07,023||2.86%
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|align="left"|Bahujan Samaj Party||67||1||7,69,675||6.37%
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|align="left"|Shiromani Akali Dal (M)||30||1||3,19,111||3.10%
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|align="left"|Independents||244||6||11,18,348||10.87%
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|align="left"|Total[1]||693||117|| 1,02,89,814||
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Legislative Assembly By-elections
Jammu and Kashmir
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
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| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Doda | 66.08% | Khalid Najeeb | Template:Party name with color | 23,564 | 74.36% | Ajay Kumar | Template:Party name with color | 7,789 | 24.58% | style="background:Template:Party color"|15,775 | ||
Rajya Sabha
President
| States | No. of MLA/MPs | Value of each Vote | K. R. Narayanan (Votes) | K. R. Narayanan (Values) | T. N. Seshan (Votes) | T. N. Seshan (Values) | Invalid (Votes) | Invalid (Values) |
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| Members of Parliament | 776 | 708 | 676 | 478,608 | 26 | 18,408 | 32 | 22,656 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 294 | 148 | 254 | 37,592 | 9 | 1,332 | 17 | 2,516 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 60 | 8 | 56 | 448 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24 |
| Assam | 126 | 116 | 110 | 12,760 | 5 | 580 | 1 | 116 |
| Bihar | 324 | 174 | 285 | 49,590 | 8 | 1,392 | 15 | 2,610 |
| Goa | 40 | 20 | 35 | 700 | 2 | 40 | 3 | 60 |
| Gujarat | 182 | 147 | 156 | 22,932 | 11 | 1,617 | 7 | 1,029 |
| Haryana | 90 | 112 | 77 | 8,624 | 3 | 336 | 6 | 672 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 68 | 51 | 63 | 3,213 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 102 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 87 | 72 | 74 | 5,328 | 1 | 72 | 4 | 288 |
| Karnataka | 224 | 131 | 191 | 25,021 | 13 | 1,703 | 11 | 1,441 |
| Kerala | 140 | 152 | 135 | 20,520 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 304 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 320 | 130 | 296 | 38,480 | 9 | 1,170 | 13 | 1,690 |
| Maharashtra | 288 | 175 | 173 | 30,275 | 96 | 16,800 | 1 | 175 |
| Manipur | 60 | 18 | 52 | 936 | 4 | 72 | 0 | 0 |
| Meghalaya | 60 | 17 | 43 | 731 | 10 | 170 | 4 | 68 |
| Mizoram | 40 | 8 | 34 | 272 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Nagaland | 60 | 9 | 55 | 495 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Orissa | 147 | 149 | 132 | 19,668 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1,341 |
| Punjab | 117 | 116 | 106 | 12,296 | 1 | 116 | 7 | 812 |
| Rajasthan | 200 | 129 | 174 | 22,446 | 4 | 516 | 12 | 1,548 |
| Sikkim | 32 | 7 | 31 | 217 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tamil Nadu | 234 | 176 | 229 | 40304 | 2 | 352 | 2 | 352 |
| Tripura | 60 | 26 | 59 | 1534 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 425 | 208 | 377 | 78,416 | 24 | 4,992 | 7 | 1,456 |
| West Bengal | 294 | 151 | 272 | 41,072 | 5 | 755 | 4 | 604 |
| Delhi | 70 | 58 | 58 | 3,364 | 3 | 174 | 8 | 464 |
| Pondicherry | 30 | 16 | 28 | 448 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| TOTAL | 4,848 | 3,232 | 4,231 | 956,290 | 240 | 50,631 | 171 | 22,656 |
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Vice president
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Candidate
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Electoral Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
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|align="left"|Krishan Kant||align="left"|Janata Dal||441||61.76
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|align="left"|Surjit Singh Barnala||align="left"|SAD||273||38.24
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! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"| Total
! style="text-align:right;"|714
! style="text-align:right;"|100.00
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|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Valid Votes||714||93.95
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|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Invalid Votes||46||6.05
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|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Turnout||760||96.20
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|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Abstentions||30||3.80
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|colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|Electors||790|| style="background:#e9e9e9;"|
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References
- ↑ The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.
- ↑ Election Statistics - Bye Elections 1997. eci.gov.in. Election Commission Of India. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- ↑ Presidential Election Results – 1997. Indian Parliament.