1989 elections in India explained

Elections in the Republic of India in 1989 included the 1989 Indian general election, elections to eight state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

See main article: 1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. Source:[1]

No Party Seats Contested Seats Won Seats change Vote Share Swing
1 287 181 +131 47.09% +3.67%
2 241 74 -128 36.54% -9.67%
3 19 8 -3 2.31% -0.05%
4 15 6 -5 2.46% +0.15%
5 12 5 -3 1.78% +0.46%
6 4 1 +1 0.37% +0.37%
7 35 4 +4 1.99 +1.99%
8 15 +6 6.58% -2.52%

Goa

See main article: 1989 Goa Legislative Assembly election.

Karnataka

See main article: 1989 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. |- align=center!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats contested
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change
|-| |align="left"|Indian National Congress||221||178||7,990,142||43.76%|| 113|-| |align="left"|Janata Dal||209||24||4,943,854||27.08%||New Party|-| |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||118||4||755,032||4.14%|| 2|-| |align="left"|Janata Party (JP)||217||2||2,070,341||11.34%|| 137|-||align="left"|Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha||105||2||654,801||3.59%||New Party|-| |align="left"|AIADMK||1||1||32,928||0.18%|| 1|-| |align="left"|Muslim League||13||1||80,612||0.44%||New Party|-| |align="left"|Independents||1088||12||1,482,482||8.12%|| 1|-||align="left"|Total||2043||224||18,257,909|||-|}

Mizoram

See main article: 1989 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election.

Nagaland

See main article: 1989 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election.

Sikkim

See main article: 1989 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election.

Tamil Nadu

See main article: 1989 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:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance! style="background-color: " || 169| +137| 9,135,220| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 37.9%|-|DMK! style="background-color: #FF0000" || 150| +126| 8,001,222| 33.2%| 38.7%|-|CPI(M)! style="background-color: #000080" || 15| +10| 851,351| 3.5%| 36.5%|-|JNP! style="background-color: #FFFF00" || 4| +1| 282,647| 1.2%| 29.1%|-! style="background-color:#009900; color:white"|AIADMK+ alliance! style="background-color: " | | 34| -100| 7,757,452| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 32.2%|-|AIADMK(J)! style="background-color: lime" || 27| rowspan=3 style="text-align:right;"|-101| 5,098,687| 22.2%| 25.0%|-|AIADMK(JA)! style="background-color: olive" || 2| 2,214,965| 9.2%| 12.2%|-|AIADMK(United)! style="background-color: #008000" || 2| 148,630| 0.6%| 37.4%|-|CPI! style="background-color: #0000FF" || 3| +1| 295,170| 1.2%| 21.3%|-! style="background-color:gray; color:white"|Others! style="background-color:gray" || 31| -37| 7,218,796| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 29.9%|-|INC! style="background-color: #00FFFF" || 26| -37| 4,780,714| 19.8%| 21.8%|-|IND! style="background-color: #666666" || 5| +1| 2,164,484| 9.0%| 9.1%|-| style="text-align:center;" |Total! style="background-color: " || 234| –| 24,111,468| 100%| style="text-align:center;" | –|-|}: Seat change reflects 33 MLAs that supported Jayalalithaa faction and 97 MLAs that supported Janaki faction (2 MLAs that supported her had their constituency election in a later March by-election after the merge). It also reflects GKC merging with INC and AKD not winning a seat after winning a seat in 1984.
: 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[2]

Uttar Pradesh

See main article: 1989 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

Rajya Sabha

See main article: 1989 Indian Rajya Sabha elections.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andhra Pradesh 1989 - . . 12 November 2021.
  2. Web site: ECI 1989 Election Statistical Report. .