1998 elections in India

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The 1998 Indian elections were a series of national and sub-national elections which took place in India throughout 1998. The national elections saw the return of the Indian National Congress to power while state results were varied.

Overall result

Polling Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
16 February 1998	Tripura	Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Dasarath Deb	Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Manik Sarkar
	Meghalaya	Template:Full party name with color	S. C. Marak	Template:Full party name with color	S. C. Marak
23 February 1998	Nagaland	Template:Full party name with color	S. C. Jamir	Template:Full party name with color	S. C. Jamir
	Gujarat	Template:Full party name with color	Dilip Parikh	Template:Full party name with color	Keshubhai Patel
28 February 1998	Himachal Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Virbhadra Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Prem Kumar Dhumal
25 November 1998	Delhi	Template:Full party name with color	Sushma Swaraj	Template:Full party name with color	Sheila Dikshit
	Mizoram	Template:Full party name with color	Lal Thanhawla	Template:Full party name with color	Zoramthanga
	Rajasthan	Template:Full party name with color	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Template:Full party name with color	Ashok Gehlot
27 November 1998	Madhya Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Digvijaya Singh	Template:Full party name with color	Digvijaya Singh

Legislative Assembly elections

Madhya Pradesh

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SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress	316	172	-2	40.59
2	Bharatiya Janata Party	320	119	+2	39.28
3	Bahujan Samaj Party	221	11	0	6.15
4	Janata Dal	144	4	+ 3	1.87
5	Samajwadi Party	228	4	+ 4	1.58
6	Gondvana Gantantra Party	81	1	0	0.82
7	Ajeya Bharat Party	78	1	+ 1	0.55
8	Janata Party	14	1	+ 1	0.20
9	Republican Party of India	20	1	+ 1	0.13
10	Independent	320	8	- 1	6.49
	Total		320

Meghalaya

← Summary of the 16 February 1998 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color"|	Indian National Congress (INC)	293,346	35.03	0.41 Template:Increase	25	1 Template:Increase
width="1" bgcolor=Template:Party color|	United Democratic Party (UDP)Template:Ref label	226,026	26.99	6.48 Template:Decrease	20	1 Template:Decrease
	People's Democratic Movement (PDM)	58,225	6.95		3
	Hill State People's Democratic Party	56,682	6.77		3
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	41,924	5.01	1.33 Template:Increase	3	3 Template:Increase
	Garo National Council (GNC)	17,650	2.11		1
	Hindu Samaj Party (HSP)	4,754	0.57		0
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Communist Party of India (CPI)	1,387	0.17	0.03 Template:Increase	0	Template:Steady
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Rashtriya Janata Dal	1,253	0.15		0
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Samajwadi Party	742	0.09		0
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Janata Dal	38	0.0		0
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Independents (IND)	135,356	17.28	1.12 Template:Decrease	5	5 Template:Decrease
Total		837,383	100.00		60	±0
Source: Election Commission of India

Template:Note label The UDP was formed in 1997 through a merger of the Hill People's Union (HPU), some members of the Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP) and the Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC). Previous results presented in the table are the combined totals of parties' results from the 1993 election.

Tripura

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Performance of the political parties in this election

Party	Seats contested	Seats won	No. of votes	% of votes	1993 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	60	0	80,272	5.87%	0
Communist Party of India	2	1	18,802	1.38%	0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	55	38	621,804	45.49%	44
Indian National Congress	45	13	464,171	33.96%	10
Janata Dal	3	0	3,294	0.24%	1
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	10	4	98,271	7.19%	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	22,526	1.65%	2
Independents	60	2	44,940	3.29%	1
Total	270	60	1,366,966

Legislative By-elections

Jammu and Kashmir

• Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency

Assembly Constituency		Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#k	Names	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
1	Jammu West	33.56%	Ashok Kumar Khajuria	Template:Party name with color	13,164	54.61%	Ved Kumar	Template:Party name with color	6,967	28.9%	style="background:Template:Party color"|6,197

External links

• Election Commission of India