Elections in Madhya Pradesh

Template:More citations needed Elections in Madhya Pradesh, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of Madhya Pradesh creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India. In addition, the state legislature may be dismissed by the Parliament according to Article 356 of the Indian Constitution and President's rule may be imposed.

Main Political Parties Over The Years

While some parties are currently active in the politics of Madhya Pradesh, some have been dissolved.

Sr.No.	Party	Status	Abbreviation & Color
1.	Indian National Congress	Active	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
2.	Bharatiya Janata Party	Active	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
3.	Bahujan Samaj Party	Active	BSP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
4.	Samajwadi Party	Active	SP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
5.	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	Dissolved	BJS	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
6.	Janata Party	Dissolved	JP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
7.	Janata Dal	Dissolved	JD	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
8.	Swatantra Party	Dissolved	SWA	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
9.	Bharatiya Lok Dal	Dissolved	BLD	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
10.	Communist Party of India	Active	CPI	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
11.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Active	CPI(M)	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
12.	Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad	Dissolved	RRP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
13.	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party	Dissolved	KMPP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
14.	Gondwana Ganatantra Party	Active	GGP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
15.	Samyukta Socialist Party	Dissolved	SSP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
16.	Samyukta Vidhayak Dal	Dissolved	SVD	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|

Lok Sabha Elections

Lok Sabha	Year	Total Seats	INC	BJP	Others	PM elect	PM's Party
1.	1951	29	28	-	-	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
2.	1957	35	34	-	Party name Seats won HMS 1	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
3.	1962	36	24	-	Party name Seats won BJS 3 PSP 3	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
4.	1967	37	25	-	Party name Seats won BJS 10 SWA 1 IND 1	Indira Gandhi	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
5.	1971	37	21	-	Party name Seats won BJS 11 IND 4	Indira Gandhi	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
6.	1977	40	1	-	Party name Seats won JP 38 IND 1	Morarji Desai	JP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
7.	1980	40	35	-	Party name Seats won JP 4	Indira Gandhi	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
8.	1984	40	40	0	-	Rajiv Gandhi	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
9.	1989	38	8	27	Party name Seats won JD 3	V. P. Singh	JD	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
10.	1991	40	27	12	Party name Seats won BSP 1	P. V. Narasimha Rao	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
11.	1996	40	8	27	Party name Seats won BSP 2	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
12.	1998	40	10	30	-	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
13.	1999	40	11	29	-	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
14.	2004	29	4	25	-	Manmohan Singh	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
15.	2009	29	12	16	Party name Seats won BSP 1	Manmohan Singh	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
16.	2014	29	2	27	-	Narendra Modi	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
17.	2019	29	1	28	-	Narendra Modi	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|

From 1989 to 2000

Total Seats- 40

Lok Sabha	Election Year	1st Party		2nd Party		3rd Party		Others	Prime Minister	PM's Party
9th Lok Sabha	1989	rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 27	rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 8	rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	JD 3	Ind 1	V. P. Singh	style="background-color: Template:Party color"| JD
	1990	Chandra Shekhar		style="background:Template:Party color|SJP
10th Lok Sabha	1991	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 27	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 12	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 1		P.V. Narasimha Rao	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|INC
11th Lok Sabha	1996	rowspan=3: style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 27	rowspan=3: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 8	rowspan=3: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 2	AIIC(T) 1, MPVC 1, Ind 1	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|BJP
	1996	H.D. Deve Gowda		rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color"| JD
	1997	I.K. Gujral
12th Lok Sabha	1998	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 30	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 10				Atal Bihari Vajpayee	rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|BJP
13th Lok Sabha	1999	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 29	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 11

After 2000

Total Seats- 29

Lok Sabha	Election Year	1st Party		2nd Party		3rd Party		Prime Minister	PM's Party
14th Lok Sabha	2004	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 25	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 4			Manmohan Singh	rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|INC
15th Lok Sabha	2009	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 16	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 12	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 1
16th Lok Sabha	2014	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 27	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 2			Narendra Modi	rowspan=2: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|BJP
17th Lok Sabha	2019	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 28	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 1

Vidhan Sabha elections

LA	Year	Total Seats	INC	BJP	Others	Chief Minister	Party
1.	1952	232	194	-	Party name Seats won KMPP 8 RRP 3 SP 2 SKP 2 IND 23	Chief Minister Tenure Ravishankar Shukla 1 November 1956 - 31 December 1956 Bhagwantrao Mandloi 1 January 1957 - 30 January 1957 Kailash Nath Katju 31 January 1957 - 11 March 1962	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
2.	1957	288	232	-	Party name Seats won PSP 12 BJS 10 HM 7 RRP 5 CPI 2 IND 20	Kailash Nath Katju	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
3.	1962	288	142	-	Party name Seats won JS 41 PSP 33 SOC 14 RRP 10 HM 6 SWA 2 CPI 1 IND 39	Chief Minister Tenure Bhagwantrao Mandloi 12 March 1962 - 29 September 1963 Dwarka Prasad Mishra 31 September 1963 - 8 March 1967	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
4.	1967*	296	167	-	Party name Seats won BJS 78 SWA 7 SSP 10	Chief Minister Tenure Govind Narayan Singh 30 July 1967 - 12 March 1969 Nareshchandra Singh 13 March 1969 - 25 March 1969 Shyama Charan Shukla 26 March 1969 - 28 January 1972	SVD	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
5.	1972	296	220	-	Party name Seats won BJS 48 SSP 7 CPI 3 IND 18	Chief Minister Tenure Prakash Chandra Sethi 29 January 1972 - 22 December 1975 Shyama Charan Shukla 23 December 1975 - 29 April 1977	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
6.	1977	320	84	-	Party name Seats won JP 230 RRP 1 IND 5	Chief Minister Tenure Kailash Joshi 24 June 1977 - 17 January 1978 Virendra Kumar Saklecha 18 January 1978 - 19 January 1980 Sundar Lal Patwa 20 January 1980 - 17 February 1980	JP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
7.	1980	320	246	60	Party name Seats won JP 2 CPI 2 JP(S) 1 RPK 1 IND 8	Arjun Singh	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
8.	1985	320	250	58	Party name Seats won JP 5 INC(S) 1 IND 6	Chief Minister Tenure Motilal Vora 13 March 1985 - 13 February 1988 Arjun Singh 14 February 1988 - 24 January 1989 Motilal Vora 25 January 1989 - 8 December 1989	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
9.	1990	320	56	220	Party name Seats won JD 28 CPI 3 BSP 2 KSM 1 IND 10	Sunder Lal Patwa	BJP	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |
10.	1993	320	174	117	Party name Seats won BSP 11 JD 4 CPI 2 CPI(M) 1 CMM 1 KSM 1 RPI(K) 1 IND 8	Digvijaya Singh	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
11.	1998	320	172	119	Party name Seats won BSP 11 JD 4 SP 4 GGP 1 ABP 1 JP 1 RPI 1 IND 8	Digvijaya Singh	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
12.	2003	230	38	173	Party name Seats won SP 7 GGP 3 BSP 2 RSD 2 IND 2	Chief Minister Tenure Uma Bharti 8 December 2003 - 22 August 2004 Babulal Gaur 22 August 2004 - 29 November 2005 Shivraj Singh Chouhan 29 November 2005 - 16 December 2018	BJP	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |
13.	2008	230	71	143	Party name Seats won BSP 7 BJSP 5 SP 1 IND 3	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	BJP	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |
14.	2013	230	58	165	Party name Seats won BSP 4 IND 3	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	BJP	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |
15.	2018	230	114	109	Party name Seats won BSP 2 SP 1 IND 4	Kamal Nath	INC	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|
16.	2020	230	96	126	Party name Seats won BSP 2 SP 1 IND 4	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	BJP	width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"|

• In the elections held in the year 1967, the INC won 167 seats but its leader Govind Narayan Singh broke away with the party and formed the SVD, which along with other parties formed the government with Govind Narayan Singh as the Chief Minister.

After 2000

Total Seats- 230

Vidhan Sabha	Election Year	1st Party		2nd Party		3rd Party		Others	Chief Minister	CM's Party
13th Vidhan Sabha	2003	rowspan=3: style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 173	rowspan=3: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 38	rowspan=3: style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	SP 7	GGP: 3, BSP: 2, RSD: 2, IND: 2	Uma Bharti	rowspan=5: style="background-color: Template:Party color" |BJP
		Babulal Gaur
		Shivraj Singh Chouhan
14th Vidhan Sabha	2008	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 143	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 71	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 7	BJSP:5, SP: 1, IND: 3	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
15th Vidhan Sabha	2013	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 165	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 58	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 4	IND: 3
16th Vidhan Sabha	2018	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 114	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 109	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 2	SP 1, IND 4	Kamal Nath	style="background:Template:Party color"|INC
	2020	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	BJP 126	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	INC 96	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	BSP 2	SP 1, IND 4	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |BJP

External links

• Election Commission of India