1992 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 1992 included elections to the Punjab Legislative Assembly, seats in the Rajya Sabha and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.

This article is part of a series on the
Politics of India
Union Government
Executive
Legislature
Parliament of India

Judiciary
Elections
  • General elections
Political parties
National coalitions
Federalism
flag India portal

Legislative Assembly elections

Punjab
Main article: 1992 Punjab Legislative Assembly election
Summary of results of the Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 1992[1]
Political Party
 No. of Candidates
 Seats won
 Number of Votes
 % of Votes
Indian National Congress1168713,17,07543.83%
Shiromani Akali Dal5831,56,1715.20%
Bharatiya Janata Party6664,95,16116.48%
Communist Party of India2041,09,3863.64%
Bahujan Samaj Party10594,90,55217.59%
Communist Party of India (M)17172,0612.40%
Indian People's Front212,2920.08%
Janata Dal37164,6662.15%
Independents15142,77,7069.24%
Total[2]579117 30,05,083

Rajya Sabha
Main article: 1992 Indian Rajya Sabha elections

President
Main article: 1992 Indian presidential election

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website[3][4]

Candidate Electoral Values
Shankar Dayal Sharma 675,864
George Gilbert Swell 346,485
Ram Jethmalani 2,704
Kaka Joginder Singh 1,135
Total 1,026,188

Vice-president
Main article: 1992 Indian vice presidential election
Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 1992[5]
Candidate
 Party
 Electoral Votes
 % of Votes
K. R. NarayananINC70099.86
Kaka Joginder SinghIndependent10.14
Total 701 100.00
Valid Votes70198.59
Invalid Votes101.41
Turnout71190.00
Abstentions7910.00
Electors790

References
  1. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1992 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.
  3. "Backgrounder". pib.nic.in. Archived from the original on 29 May 2000.
  4. "Election to the Office of President of India 2017" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Media Division, Election Commission of India. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017.
  5. BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.