Elections in the Republic of India in 1991 included the general election, elections to seven state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.
General Election
Results
Date(s)StateGovernment before electionChief Minister before electionGovernment after electionChief Minister after electionMaps24 April 1991West Bengal Jyoti Basu Jyoti Basu 6 to 8 June 1991 AssamPresident's Rule Hiteswar Saikia15 June 1991PondicherryPresident's Rule V. Vaithilingam Tamil NaduPresident's Rule J. Jayalalithaa 18 June 1991Kerala E. K. NayanarK. Karunakaran June 1991HaryanaPresident's Rule Bhajan Lal Bishnoi June 1991 Uttar PradeshPresident's Rule Kalyan Singh
Legislative Assembly elections Assam
Haryana
|- 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||90||51||2,084,856||33.73%
|align="left"|Janata Party||88||16||1,361,955||22.03%
|align="left"|Haryana Vikas Party||61||12||775,375||12.54%
|align="left"|Janata Dal||25||3||277,380||4.49%
|align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||89||2||582,850||9.43%
|align="left"|Bahujan Samaj Party||26||1||143,611||2.32%
|align="left"|Independents||1412||5||848,527||13.73%
! Total !! 1885 !! 90 !! 6,181,187 !!
Kerala
+Party Wise ResultsPartySeatsCommunist Party of India (CPI)12Communist Party of Indian (Marxist) (CPM)28Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha) ICS(SCS)2Indian National Congress (INC)55Janta Dal (JD)3Kerala Congress (M) (KCM)10Kerala Congress (KEC)1Muslim League (MUL)19Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)2Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 1Communist Marxist Party of India (CPM)(K) 1National Democratic Party (NDP) 2Independent (IND)4Total140
Pondicherry
Tamil Nadu
! 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: " | | 225 | +172 | 14,738,042 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 59.8% |- |AIADMK ! style="background-color: #008000" | | 164 | +137 | 10,940,966 | 44.4% | 61.1% |- |INC ! style="background-color: #00FFFF" | | 60 | +34 | 3,743,859 | 15.2% | 56.2% |- |ICS(SCS)† ! style="background-color: #800000" | | 1 | +1 | 53,217 | 0.2% | 56.1% |- ! style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|DMK+ alliance ! style="background-color: " | | 7 | -164 | 7,405,935 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 30.0% |- |DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" | | 2 | -148 | 5,535,668 | 22.5% | 29.9% |- |TMK ! style="background-color: #FF00FF" | | 2 | -1 | 371,645 | 1.5% | 31.0% |- |CPI(M) ! style="background-color: #000080" | | 1 | -14 | 777,532 | 3.2% | 31.2% |- |JD ! style="background-color: #FFFF00" | | 1 | +1 | 415,947 | 1.7% | 28.3% |- |CPI ! style="background-color: #0000FF" | | 1 | -2 | 305,143 | 1.2% | 29.9% |- ! style="background-color:gray; color:white"|Others ! style="background-color:gray" | | 2 | -8 | 2,505,431 | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"| 10.2% |- |PMK ! style="background-color: #800080" | | 1 | +1 | 1,452,982 | 5.9% | 7.0% |- |JP ! style="background-color: " | | 0 | -4 | 51,564 | 0.2% | 0.7% |- |IND ! style="background-color: #666666" | | 1 | -5 | 390,227 | 1.6% | 1.7% |- | style="text-align:center;" |Total ! style="background-color: " | | 234 | – | 24,649,408 | 100% | style="text-align:center;" | –
†: ICS(SCS) contested in 13 different constituencies, but only the one contested by Sanjay Ramaswamy was endorsed by AIADMK.‡: 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 ECI: 1991 Election Statistical Report
Uttar Pradesh
Party nameSeatsBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)221Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)12Communist Party of India (CPI)4Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM)1Indian National Congress (INC)46Janata Dal (JD)92Janata Party (JP)34Shiv Sena (SHS)1Shoshit Samaj Dal (SSD)1Independents7Total419
West Bengal
PartyCandidatesSeatsVotes%Left Front & alliesCommunist Party of India (Marxist)20418210,954,37935.37All India Forward Bloc34291,707,6765.51Revolutionary Socialist Party23181,073,4453.47Communist Party of India126542,9641.75West Bengal Socialist Party44208,1470.67Marxist Forward Bloc22130,4540.42Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)2298,9050.39Revolutionary Communist Party of India2192,5440.30Biplobi Bangla Congress1050,4140.16Janata Dal81208,9510.67Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League1035,4890.11Communist Revolutionary League of India1022,7160.07Congress & alliesIndian National Congress2844310,875,83435.12Gorkha National Liberation Front33146,5410.47Jharkhand Party61140,3910.45United Communist Party of India1040,8060.13Congress-supported independent1040,4260.13Bharatiya Janata Party29103,513,12111.34Jharkhand Mukti Morcha23095,0380.31Bahujan Samaj Party97088,8360.29Janata Party78050,0370.16Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)18041,8280.14Indian People's Front23039,0040.13Indian Union Muslim League28028,1560.09Amra Bangalee60022,2950.07Workers Party of India6010,6700.03Hul Jharkhand Party309,2390.03Doordashti Party2604,9800.02Marxist Communist Party of India503,8040.01Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha501,5530.01Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh601,4850.00Indian National Congress (O) Anti Merger Group501,3090.00All India Dalit Muslim Minorities Suraksha Mahasangh209880.00Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Gouranga Sit)109830.00Shiv Sena108800.00Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha)108760.00Bolshevik Party of India103350.00Bharat Dal102030.00Lok Dal101210.00Bidhan Dal10920.00IndependentsIncluding Socialist Unity Centre of India candidates6312684,1302.21%Total1,90329430,970,045100Source: Election Commission of India
Rajya Sabha
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