1995 elections in India

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Elections in the Republic of India in 1995 included elections to six state legislative assemblies.

Overall Result

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
12 February and 9 March 1995	Maharashtra		Indian National Congress	Sharad Pawar		Shiv Sena	Manohar Joshi
						Bharatiya Janata Party
16 and 19 February 1995	Manipur		Indian National Congress	Rishang Keishing		Indian National Congress	Rishang Keishing
9 March 1995	Odisha		Janata Dal	Biju Patnaik		Indian National Congress	Janaki Ballabh Pattanaik
	Gujarat		Indian National Congress	Chhabildas Mehta		Bharatiya Janata Party	Keshubhai Patel
25 and 28 March 1995	Bihar		Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav
	Arunachal Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Gegong Apang		Indian National Congress	Gegong Apang

Legislative Assembly elections

Arunachal Pradesh

Main article: 1995 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Source: ^[1]

	CONTESTED	WON	FD	VOTES	%	SEATS
NATIONAL PARTIES
1 . BJP	15	0	11	14335	3.37%	11.45%
2 . INC	60	43	0	214543	50.50%	50.50%
3 . JD	34	3	8	73248	17.24%	29.65%
4 . JP	5	2	1	10743	2.53%	28.49%
INDEPENDENTS
5 . IND	59	12	19	111958	26.35%	39.11%
Grand Total :	173	60	39	424827

Bihar

Main article: 1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

Source: ^[2]

Party	Party Flag	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Seats Change	Efficiency	Vote Share
Janata Dal		264	167	(+) 45		28.0
Bharatiya Janata Party		315	41	(+) 2		13.0
Indian National Congress		320	29	(−) 42		16.3
Communist Party of India		61	26	(+) 3		4.8
Independent		5674	11	(−) 19		13.8
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		63	10	(−) 8		2.3
Samata Party		310	7	(+) 7		7.1
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)		89	6	(+) 6		2.4
Communist Party of India (Marxist)		31	2	(−) 4		1.4
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		22	6	(+) 6
JMM (Marandi)		58	3	(+) 3		1.0
Samajwadi Party		176	2	(+) 2		1.7
Marxist Co-ordination Committee		5	2	(+) 0		0.3
Bahujan Samaj Party		161	2	(+) 2		1.3
Jharkhand People's Party		33	2	(+) 2		0.3
Champaran Vikas Party		15	1	(+) 1		0.3
Jharkhand Party		29	1	(+) 1		0.2
Bhartiya Pragatisheel Party		259	1	(+) 1		3.0

Gujarat

Main article: 1995 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election

Source: ^[3]

Parties and coalitions	Popular vote		Seats
	Votes	%	Won	+/−
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	7,672,401	42.51	121	+54
Indian National Congress (INC)	5,930,216	32.86	45	+12
Independents (IND)	3,376,637	18.71	16
Janta Dal	508,561	2.82	0
SP	14,513	0.08	0	0
CPM	30,563	0.17	0
Bahujan Smajvadi Party	288,572	1.6	0	0
CPI	19,129	0.11	0	0
SAP	10,239	0.06	0	0
IUML	2,223	0.01	0	0
RSP	700	0.00	0	0
SHS	10,759	0.06	0	0
Total	18,048,194	100.00	182	±0
Valid votes	18,048,194	95.60
Invalid votes	462,624	4.40
Votes cast / turnout	18,686,757	64.39
Registered voters	29,021,184

Maharashtra

Main article: 1995 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

Source: ^[4]

Political Party	Seats			Popular Vote
	Contested	Won	+/-	Votes polled	Votes%	+/-
Indian National Congress 80 / 288 (28%)	286	80	61	1,19,41,832	31.00%	7.17%
Shiv Sena 73 / 288 (25%)	171	73	21	63,15,493	16.39%	0.45%
Bharatiya Janata Party 65 / 288 (23%)	117	65	23	49,32,767	12.80%	2.09%
Janata Dal 11 / 288 (4%)	182	11	13	22,58,914	5.86%	4.85%
Peasants and Workers Party of India 6 / 288 (2%)	42	6	2	7,88,286	2.05%	0.37%
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 3 / 288 (1%)	18	3		3,86,009	1.00%	0.13%
Samajwadi Party 3 / 288 (1%)	22	3	3	3,56,731	0.93%	0.93%
Nag Vidarbha Andolan Samiti 1 / 288 (0.3%)	2	1	1	82,677	0.21%	0.21%
Maharashtra Vikas Congress	3	1	1	45,404	0.12%	0.12%
Independents 45 / 288 (16%)	3196	45	32	91,04,036	23.63%	10.04%
Total	4727	288		3,8,526,206	100%

Manipur

Main article: 1995 Manipur Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	328,362	28.08	22	–2
	Manipur Peoples Party	271,247	23.20	18	+9
	Janata Dal	136,594	11.68	7	–4
	Samata Party	70,887	6.06	2	New
	Communist Party of India	64,026	5.48	2	-1
	Federal Party of Manipur	56,300	4.82	2	New
	Indian Congress (Socialist)	44,797	3.83	1	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	38,405	3.28	1	+1
	National People's Party (India)	30,417	2.60	2	+1
	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	30,417	2.60	0	New
	Kuki National Assembly	2,832	0.24	0	-2
	Manipur Hill People's Council	2,440	0.21	0	0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,327	0.20	0	New
	Janata Party	1,611	0.14	0	New
	Independents	88,526	7.57	3	+3
Total		1,169,188	100.00	60	+6
Valid votes		1,169,188	98.83
Invalid/blank votes		13,868	1.17
Total votes		1,183,056	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,160,690	101.93
Source: ECI [5]

Odisha

Main article: 1995 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	6,180,237	39.08	80	+70
	Janata Dal	5,600,853	35.41	46	–77
	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,245,996	7.88	9	+7
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	307,517	1.94	4	New
	Communist Party of India	271,199	1.71	1	–4
	Jharkhand People's Party	27,494	0.17	1	New
	Others	521,158	3.30	0	0
	Independents	1,661,485	10.51	6	0
Total		15,815,939	100.00	147	0
Valid votes		15,815,939	97.30
Invalid/blank votes		439,618	2.70
Total votes		16,255,557	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		22,075,775	73.64
Source: ECI [6]

References

1. "Andhra Pradesh 1985". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
2. "Bihar 1985". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
3. "Gujarat 1985". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
4. "Maharashtra 1985". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
5. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 29 November 2021.
6. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1995 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 February 2022.

External links

• Election Commission of India