Elections in the Republic of India in 1983 included elections to six state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.
Overall result Date(s)StateGovernment beforeChief Minister beforeGovernment afterElected Chief MinisterMaps5 January 1983Andhra Pradesh Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara ReddyN. T. Rama Rao Karnataka R. Gundu Rao Ramakrishna Hegde 17 February 1983MeghalayaWilliamson A. SangmaB. B. Lyngdoh14–20 February 1983 AssamPresident's Rule Hiteswar Saikia1 May 1983Tripura Communist Party of India (Marxist)Nripen Chakraborty Communist Party of India (Marxist)Nripen Chakraborty17 November 1983 to 24 November 1983Jammu and KashmirFarooq AbdullahFarooq Abdullah
Legislative Assembly elections Andhra Pradesh
s.no party seats contested seats won seats change vote share swing 1 Telugu Desam Party 289 202 +202 46.3% + 46.3% 2 Indian National Congress 294 60 -115 33.64% -22.78% 3 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 28 5 -3 2.01% -0.70% 4 Communist Party of India 48 6 +3 2.79% +0.30% 5 Bharatiya Janata Party 81 3 +3 2.76% +2.76% 6 Janata Party 44 1 -59 0.96% -27.89% 7 others 1100 20 +5 5.00% -4.20% Assam
Jammu and Kashmir
Karnataka
|- 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"|Janata Party||193||95||4,272,318||33.07%|| 36
|align="left"|Indian National Congress||221||82||5,221,419||40.42%|| 67
|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||110||18||1,024,892||7.93%|| 18
|align="left"|Communist Party of India||7||3||161,192||1.25%||
|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||4||3||115,320||0.89%|| 3
|align="left"|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam||1||1||16,234||0.13%|| 1
|align="left"|Independents||751||22||1,998,256||15.47%|| 12
|align="left"|Total||1365||224||12,919,459||||
Meghalaya
+ ← Summary of the 17 February 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results → Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Won +/− Indian National Congress (INC) 130,956 27.68 1.64 25 5 All Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL)118,59324.920.15 151 Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP)91,38619.320.08 151 Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)23,2534.922 Communist Party of India2,4420.520.1 0Independents (IND) 106,378 22.49 2.33 3 5 Total 473,050 100.00 60 ±0Source: Election Commission of India In the 1978 election, two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; at that time, the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.
Does not include the two PDIC candidates elected as independents in 1978.
Tripura
+ Performance of the political parties in this election Party Seats contested Seats won No. of votes % of votes 1977 Seats Bharatiya Janata Party 4 0 578 0.06% - Communist Party of India 1 0 7,657 0.83% 0 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 56 37 433,608 46.78% 51 Indian Congress Secular 3 0 540 0.06% - Indian National Congress 45 12 282,859 30.51% 0 Janata Party 5 0 515 0.06% 0 All India Forward Block 1 0 6,549 0.71% 1 Revolutionary Socialist Party 2 2 15,218 1.64% 2 Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti 14 6 97,039 10.47% 4 Independents 75 3 82,443 8.89% 2 Total 206 60 927,006
Local Elections Delhi
|- 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
|align="left"|Indian National Congress||56||34||856,055||47.50%
|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||50||19||666,605||36.99%
|align="left"|Lok Dal||6||2||73,765||4.09%
|align="left"|Janata Party||37||1||65,980||3.66%
! Total !! 400 !! 56 !! 1,802,118 !!
Rajya Sabha
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