1990 elections in India

Last updated June 28, 2025

Overall Result

State		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister
Maharashtra	Indian National Congress	Sharad Pawar	Indian National Congress	Sharad Pawar
Himachal Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Virbhadra Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	Shanta Kumar
Gujarat	Indian National Congress	Madhav Singh Solanki	Janata Dal	Chimanbhai Patel
Rajasthan	Indian National Congress	Hari Dev Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Madhya Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Shyama Charan Shukla	Bharatiya Janata Party	Sunder Lal Patwa
Manipur	Indian National Congress	Raj Kumar Jaichandra Singh	Manipur People's Party	Raj Kumar Ranbir Singh
Pondicherry	Indian National Congress	M. O. H. Farook	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	M. D. R. Ramachandran
Odisha	Indian National Congress	Hemananda Biswal	Janata Dal	Biju Patnaik
Bihar	Indian National Congress	Jagannath Mishra	Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav
Arunachal Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Gegong Apang	Indian National Congress	Gegong Apang

Legislative Assembly elections

Arunachal Pradesh


NATIONAL PARTIES	CONTESTED	WON	FD	VOTES	%	SEATS
1. INC	59	37	0	154463	44.25%	44.85%
2. JD	52	11	1	116383	33.34%	36.21%
3. JNP(JP)	7	1	4	7952	2.28%	14.77%
INDEPENDENTS
4. IND	52	11	21	70300	20.14%	32.72%
Grand Total :	170	60	26	349098

Pondicherry



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	105,207	25.04	11	4
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	101,127	24.07	9	4
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	76,337	18.17	3	3
	Janata Dal	38,145	9.08	4	New
	Communist Party of India	21,323	5.07	2	2
	Others	44,475	10.58	0	0
	Independents	33,557	7.99	1	1
Total		420,171	100.00	30	0

Valid votes		420,171	99.19
Invalid/blank votes		3,416	0.81
Total votes		423,587	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		585,194	72.38
Source: ECI^[1]

Bihar

	Seats contested	Seats	Seat change	Popular vote	Percentage
Janata Dal	276	122	New Party	8,212,666	25.61%
Indian National Congress	323	71	125	7,946,635	24.78%
Bharatiya Janata Party	237	39	23	3,721,392	11.61%
Communist Party of India	109	23	11	2,112,887	6.59%
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	82	19	10	1,008,174	3.14%
Indian People's Front	82	7	New Party	889,068	2.77%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	31	6	5	427,214	1.33%
Janata Party (JP)	158	3	New Party	494,717	1.54%
Marxist Co-ordination	11	2	New Party	70,365	0.22%
Jharkhand Dal	28	1	New Party	134,827	0.42%
Socialist Party (Lohia)	47	1	New Party	109,871	0.34%
Independents	4320	30	1	5,907,134	18.42%
Total	6629	324		32,063,793

Source:^[2]

Gujarat

Parties and coalitions	Popular vote		Seats
Parties and coalitions	Votes	%	Won	+/−
Janata Dal	3,725,148	29.36	70	+70
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	3,386,256	26.69	67	+56
Indian National Congress (INC)	3,899,159	30.74	33	−116
Yuva Vikas Party (YVP)	1,07,220	2.47	1	+1
JNP	69,829	0.55	0	0
CPM	37,436	0.30	0	0
CPI	11,377	0.09	0	0
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	4,565	0.04	0	0
Independents (IND)	1,323,790	10.44	11

Total	12,685,977	100	182	±0

Valid votes	12,685,977	98.03
Invalid votes	2,69,244	1.97
Votes cast / turnout	12,955,221	52.20
Registered voters	24,820,379

Himachal Pradesh



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Bharatiya Janata Party	858,518	41.78	46	+39
	Indian National Congress	750,885	36.54	9	–49
	Janata Dal	222,542	10.83	11	New
	Communist Party of India	42,393	2.06	1	+1
	Others	55,139	2.68	0	0
	Independents	125,421	6.10	1	–1
Total		2,054,898	100.00	68	0

Valid votes		2,054,898	99.20
Invalid/blank votes		16,625	0.80
Total votes		2,071,523	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,993,699	69.20
Source: ECI^[3]

Madhya Pradesh

Source:^[4]

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Bharatiya Janata Party	269	220	+162	39.14%
2	Indian National Congress	318	56	-194	33.38%
3	Janata Dal	115	28	N/A	7.71%
4	Communist Party of India	183	3	N/A	1.25%
5	Bahujan Samaj Party	63	2	N/A	3.54%
6	Krantikari Samajwadi Manch	20	+1		0.40%
7	Independent	320	10	+4	12.31%
	Total		320

Maharashtra

Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Votes polled	Votes (%)	Seat change
Indian National Congress	276	141	11,334,773	38.17%	20
Shiv Sena	183	52	4,733,834	15.94%	52
Bharatiya Janata Party	104	42	3,180,482	10.71%	26
Janata Dal	214	24	3,776,737	12.72%	24
Peasants and Workers Party of India	40	8	719,807	2.42%	5
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	13	3	258,433	0.87%	1
Communist Party of India	16	2	219,080	0.74%
Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha	71	1	290,503	0.98%	1
Independents	2286	13	4,036,403	13.59%	7

Manipur


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	333,765	33.71	24	–6
	Janata Dal	196,207	19.82	11	New
	Manipur Peoples Party	192,075	19.40	9	+6
	Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha	122,829	12.41	4	New
	Communist Party of India	41,012	4.14	3	+2
	Kuki National Assembly	25,867	2.61	2	+1
	Bharatiya Janata Party	18,549	1.87	0	0
	Manipur Hill People's Council	8,820	0.89	0	New
	National People's Party (India)	7,762	0.78	1	New
	Independents	43,101	4.35	0	–21
Total		989,987	100.00	54	–6

Valid votes		989,987	98.90
Invalid/blank votes		10,997	1.10
Total votes		1,000,984	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,112,853	89.95
Source: ECI^[5]

Odisha



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Janata Dal	5,884,443	53.69	123	+102
	Indian National Congress	3,264,000	29.78	10	–107
	Bharatiya Janata Party	390,060	3.56	2	+1
	Communist Party of India	326,364	2.98	5	+4
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	91,767	0.84	1	0
	Others	196,953	1.80	0	0
	Independents	807,000	7.36	6	–1
Total		10,960,587	100.00	147	0

Valid votes		10,960,587	98.02
Invalid/blank votes		221,565	1.98
Total votes		11,182,152	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		19,745,549	56.63
Source: ECI^[6]

Rajasthan



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	4,988,699	33.64	50	–63
	Bharatiya Janata Party	3,744,945	25.25	85	+46
	Janata Dal	3,200,662	21.58	55	+45
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	152,555	1.03	1	+1
	Others	539,733	3.64	0	0
	Independents	2,202,088	14.85	9	–1
Total		14,828,682	100.00	200	0

Valid votes		14,828,682	98.37
Invalid/blank votes		245,106	1.63
Total votes		15,073,788	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		26,405,624	57.09
Source: ECI^[7]

References

↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 30 July 2022.
↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1990 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 9 February 2022.
↑ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1993 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 29 November 2021.
↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 February 2022.
↑ "Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1990". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 14 January 2022.

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[1] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 30 July 2022.

[2] Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1990 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR

[3] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 9 February 2022.

[4] "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1993 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2018.

[5] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 29 November 2021.

[6] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1990 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 February 2022.

[7] "Statistical Data of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election 1990". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 14 January 2022.

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1990 elections in India

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