1980 elections in India explained

General Elections

See main article: 1980 Indian general election.

Legislative Assembly elections

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Indian National Congress (Urs)	134,651	38.36	20	New
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	127,714	36.36	7	–8
Janata Party	14,431	4.11	0	–3
Indian National Congress	12,338	3.51	0	–10
Janata Party (Secular)	6,045	1.72	0	New
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1,089	0.31	0	New
Independents	54,773	15.60	3	+1
Invalid/blank votes	12,232	–	–	–
Total	363,273	100	30	+1
Registered voters/turnout	522,652	69.51	–	–
align=left colspan=5	Source: Election Commission of India

Gujarat

See main article: 1980 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election.

Kerala

See main article: 1980 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.

Madhya Pradesh

See main article: 1980 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Sources:^[1] ^[2]

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress (I)	320	246	47.52%
2	Bharatiya Janata Party	310	60	30.34%
3	Communist Party of India	46	2	1.50%
4	Janata Party	124	2	2.88%
5	Janata Party (Secular)	204	1	4.82%
6	Republican Party of India (Khobragade)	13	1	0.33%
6	Independent	288	8	10.26%
	Total		320

Maharashtra

See main article: 1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.

Manipur

See main article: 1980 Manipur Legislative Assembly election.

Odisha

See main article: 1980 Odisha Legislative Assembly election. |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;"! class="unsortable" |! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote %|- style="background: #90EE90;"| | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress (I)| | 147 || 118 || "NEW" || 80.27 || 30,37,487 || 47.78 || "NEW"|-|| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress (U)|| 98 || 2 || "NEW" || 1.36 || 4,46,818 || 10.49 || "NEW"|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Janata Party|| 28 || 0 || NA || 0|| 86,421 || 7.09 || NA|-| | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India| | 27 || 4 || 0|| 3.57 || 2,33,971 || 2.72 || 3.4|-| || 248 || 7 || N/A || 4.76 || 7,55,087 || 15.77 || N/A|- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan = 3|! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 147 (7) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 1,39,09,115 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|65,49,074 (47.08%)|}

Puducherry

See main article: 1980 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election.

Punjab

See main article: 1980 Punjab Legislative Assembly election.


Party	contested	Seats won	change in seats	popular vote	%
Indian National Congress	117	63	46	28,25,827	45.19%
Shiromani Akali Dal	73	37	21	16,83,266	26.92%
Communist Party of India	18	9	2	4,03,718	6.46%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	13	5	3	2,53,985	4.06%
Bharatiya Janata Party	41	1	(new)	4,05,106	6.48%
Independents	376	2		4,07,799	6.52%
Others	84	0	-	2,73,215	4.36%
Total	722	117		62,52,916

Rajasthan

See main article: 1980 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election.

Tamil Nadu

See main article: 1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election. |-! 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:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance! style="background-color: " | | 162| +14| 9,328,839| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 48.9%|-|AIADMK! style="background-color: #008000" || 129| -1| 7,303,010| 38.8%| 50.4%|-|CPI(M)! style="background-color: #000080" || 11| -1| 596,406| 3.2%| 47.6%|-|CPI! style="background-color: #0000FF" || 9| +4| 501,032| 2.7%| 43.9%|-|GKC! style="background-color: teal" || 6| +6| 322,440| 1.7%| 44.1%|-|IND! style="background-color: olive" || 6| +6| 488,296| 2.6%| |-|FBL! style="background-color: #800000" || 1| –| 65,536| 0.4%| 44.6%|-|INC(U)! style="background-color:" || 0| –| 52,119| 0.3%| 29.3%|-! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance! style="background-color: " || 69| -6| 8,371,718| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 44.4%|-|DMK! style="background-color: #FF0000" || 37| -11| 4,164,389| 22.1%| 45.7%|-|INC(I)! style="background-color: #00FFFF" || 31| +4| 3,941,900| 20.9%| 43.4%|-|IND! style="background-color: lime" || 1| +1| 265,429| 1.4%| |-! style="background-color:gray; color:white"|Others! style="background-color:gray" || 3| -8| 1,144,449| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 6.1%|-|JNP(JP)! style="background-color: #FFFF00" || 2| -8| 522,641| 2.8%| 6.9%|-|IND! style="background-color: #666666" || 1| –| 598,897| 3.2%| –|-| style="text-align:center;" |Total! style="background-color: " || 234| –| 18,845,006| 100%| style="text-align:center;" | –|-|}‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India^[4] and Keesing's Report^[5]

Uttar Pradesh

See main article: 1980 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

Party Name	Seats
Indian National Congress (INC)	309
	59
Indian National Congress (U) (INC (U))	13
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	11
Communist Party of India (CPI)	6
	4
	4
Soshit Samaj Dal (Akhil Bharatiya) (SSD)	1
Independent	17
Total	425

External links

Election Commission of India

Notes and References

Web site: STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1980 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH. Election Commission of India. 14 June 2018.
Web site: Statistical Report on General Election, 1980 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh, Chief Electoral Officer. 9 December 2020.
http://www.elections.in/punjab/assembly-constituencies/1980-election-results.html Punjab Assembly Election Results in 1980
Web site: Election Commission of India . 1980 Election Statistical Report . 19 April 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101006231656/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1980/StatisticalReportTamil%20Nadu%201980.pdf . 6 Oct 2010.
http://www.keesings.com/search?kssp_selected_tab=article&kssp_a_id=30573n01ind Keesing's Statistical Report