1967 elections in India

The elections in India in 1967 included the 1967 Indian general election and nine state legislative assembly elections.

General election

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

Assam

!colspan=10| |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" | ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats Contested !! Won !! % of Seats !! Votes !! Vote % |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 120 || 73 || 44.66% || 1354748 || 43.60%

| style="text-align:left;" |All Party Hill Leaders Conference | | 12 || 9 || 57.86% || 108447 || 3.49%

| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 22 || 7 || 30.19% || 108447 || 5.15%

| style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party | | 35 || 5 || 23.20% || 213094 || 6.86%

| style="text-align:left;" |Samyukta Socialist Party | | 17 || 4 || 26.37% || 101802 || 3.28%

| style="text-align:left;" |Swatantra Party | | 13 || 2 || 14.07% || 46187 || 1.49%

| 124 || 26 || 36.12% || 1004695 || 32.33% |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| Total Seats ! 105 !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 5449305 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! 3369230 (61.83%)

Bihar

Delhi

Goa, Daman and Diu

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center colspan=2|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

|align="left"|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party||26||16||111,110||40.42%

|align="left"|United Goans Party (Sequeira Group)||30||12||104,426||37.98%

|align="left"|Independents||156||2||48,471||17.63% |- !colspan=2|TotalThe total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win one seat!!226!!30!!264.007!!100%

Gujarat

Haryana

Himachal Pradesh

Jammu and Kashmir

Kerala

|- 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="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh | | 22 || 0 || NA || 0 || 55,584 || 0.88 || NA |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 22 || 19 || 16 || 14.29 || 538,004 || 8.57 || 0.27 |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 59 || 52 || 12 || 39.10 || 1,476,456 || 23.51 || 3.64

| style="text-align:left;" |Indian National Congress | | 133 || 9 || 27 || 6.77 || 2,789,556 || 35.43 || 1.88

| style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party | | 7 || 0 || NA || 0 || 13,991 || 0.22 || NA |- style="background: #90EE90;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Samyukta Socialist Party | | 21 || 19 || 6 || 14.29 || 527,662 || 8.4 || 0.27

| style="text-align:left;" |Swatantra Party | | 6 || 0 || NA || 14.29 || 13,105 || 0.21 || NA

| style="text-align:left;" |Kerala Congress | | 61 || 5 || 1 || 3.76 || 475,172 || 7.57 || 5.01 |- style="background: #90EE90;"

| 15 || 14 || 8 || 10.53 || 424,159 || 6.75 || 2.92

| 75 || 15 || 3 || 11.28 || 531,783 || 8.47 || 5.27 |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 133 ( 0) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 8,613,658 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|6,518,272 (75.67%)

Madras

Source: AlliancesPartyPopular VoteVote %Seats contestedSeats wonChangeUnited Front Seats: 179Seat Change: 121Popular Vote: 8,051,433 Popular Vote %: 52.59% 6,230,552 40.69% 174 137 87 811,232 5.30% 27 20 12 623,114 4.07% 22 11 11 136,188 0.89% 4 4 4 95,494 0.62% 3 3 3 84,188 0.55% 3 2 2 DMK Backed Independents 70,665 0.46% 2 2 2Indian National CongressSeats: 51 Seat Change: 84Popular Vote: 6,293,378Popular Vote %: 41.10% 6,293,378 41.10% 232 51 84OthersSeats: 4 Seat Change: 4 591,214 3.86% 246 1 4 275,932 1.80% 32 2 44,714 0.29% 1 1 31,286 0.20% 13 0 22,745 0.15% 24 0 Total 11 Political Parties15,310,702100% —234 28

Maharashtra

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change

|align="left"|Indian National Congress||270||203||6,288,564||47.03%|| 12

|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||58||19||1,043,239||7.80%|| 4

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||41||10||651,077||4.87%|| 4

|align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||66||8||545,935||4.08%|| 1

|align="left"|Republican Party of India||79||5||890,377||6.66%|| 5

|align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||166||4||1,092,670||8.17%|| 4

|align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||48||4||616,466||4.61%|| 4

|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||11||1||145,083||1.08%|| 1

|align="left"|Independents||463||16||1,948,223||14.57%|| 1

|align="left"|Total||1242||270||13,371,735||

Manipur

Mysore

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Contestants !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change |- style="background: #90EE90;" | |align="left"|Indian National Congress||216||126|| 12||3,636,374||48.43%|| 1.79

|align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||52||20|| 0 ||666,662||8.88%|| 5.20

|align="left"|Swatantra Party||45||16|| 7||497,055 ||6.62%|| 0.53

|align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||17||6||||185,222||2.47%||

|align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||37||4||||211,966||2.82%||

|align="left"|Independents||||41|| 14||2,129,786||28.36%||N/A

|align="left"|Total||||216||||||||

Odisha

|- 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 | | 140 || 31 || 51 || 22.14 || 12,35,149 || 30.66 || 12.62

| style="text-align:left;" |Bharatiya Jana Sangh | | 19 || 0 || "New" || 0 || 21,788 || 4.07 || "New"

| style="text-align:left;" |Praja Socialist Party | | 33 || 21 || 11 || 7.85 || 4,93,750 || 41.16 || 10.73

| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India | | 31 || 7 || 3 || 5 || 2,11,999 || 20.71 || 6.61

| style="text-align:left;" |Communist Party of India (Marxist) | | 10 || 1 || "New" || 0.71 || 46,597 || 18.16 || "New"

| style="text-align:left;" |Swatantra Party | | 101 || 49 || "New" || 35 || 9,09,421 || 34.78 || "New"

| style="text-align:left;" |JAC | | 47 || 26 || "New" || 18.57 || 5,42,734 || 37.17 || "New"

| 21 || 2 || N/A || 1.42 || 5,05,394 || 17.72 || N/A |- class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3| ! style="text-align:center;" |Total Seats !! 140 ( 0) !! style="text-align:center;" |Voters !! 98,73,057 !! style="text-align:center;" |Turnout !! colspan = 2|43,48,838 (44.05%)

Punjab

Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1967PartcontestedSeats won change in seatspopular vote%Akali Dal - Sant Fateh Singh5924 248,71,74220.48 Bharatiya Jana Sangh499 14,18,9219.84% Communist Party of India195 42,21,4945.20% Communist Party of India (Marxist)133 31,38,8573.26% Republican Party of India173 376,0891.79% Akali Dal Master Tara Singh Group612 21,78,7464.20% Socialist Party81 330,5910.72% Independents2359 96,83,36916.05%Indian National Congress10248 4215,94,16037.45%Others19043,1441.02%Total60210442,57,113 Parties in green box formed coalition government

Rajasthan

Tripura

+ Performance of the political parties in this election Party Seats contested Seats won No. of votes % of votes 1963 Seats Bharatiya Jana Sangh 5 0 1,506 0.35% No data available Communist Party of India 7 1 34,562 7.97% No data available Communist Party of India (Marxist) 16 2 93,739 21.61% No data available Indian National Congress 30 27 251,345 57.95% No data available Sanghata Socialist Party 1 0 83 0.02% No data available Independents 28 0 52,457 12.10% No data available Total 87 30 433,692

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change

|align="left"|Indian National Congress||280||127||5,207,930||41.13%|| 30

|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||135||43||2,293,026||18.11%|| 43

|align="left"|Bangla Congress||80||34||1,286,028||10.16%|| 34

|align="left"|Communist Party of India||62||16||827,196||6.53%|| 34

|align="left"|All India Forward Bloc||42||13||561,148||4.43%||

|align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||26||7||269,234||2.13%|| 7

|align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||26||7||238,694||1.88%|| 2

|align="left"|Revolutionary Socialist Party||16||6||238,694||2.14%|| 2

|align="left"|Socialist Unity Centre of India||8||4||238,694||0.72%|| 1

|align="left"|Marxist Forward Bloc||58||1||167,934||1.33%|| 1

|align="left"|Revolutionary Communist Party of India||58||1||167,934||1.33%|| 8

|align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||58||1||167,934||1.33%|| 1

|align="left"|Swatantra Party||21||1||102,576||0.81%|| 1

|align="left"|Independents||327||31||1,708,011||13.49%|| 20

|align="left"|Total||1058||280||12,663,030||||

References

External links

Election Commission of India