1988 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 1988 included elections to 2 state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

Elections in India

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Overall Result

Polling Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
2 February 1988	Meghalaya		Indian National Congress	Williamson A. Sangma		Indian National Congress	P. A. Sangma
	Tripura		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Nripen Chakraborty		Indian National Congress	Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar

Legislative Assembly elections

Meghalaya

Main article: 1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election

Elections were held on 2 February for the Legislative Assembly.^[1]

← Summary of the 2 February 1988 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	198,028	32.65	4.97	22	3
	Hill People's Union (HPU)	162,806	26.84		19
	Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP)	78,884	12.68	6.64	6	9
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (Armison Marak Group)	28,391	4.68		2
	Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)	19,402	3.2	1.62	2
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	2,206	0.36	0.16	0
	Independents (IND)	118,816	19.59	2.9	9	6
Total		606,533	100.00		60	±0
Source: Election Commission of India[2]

Tripura

Main article: 1988 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Performance of the political parties^[3]

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	1983 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	10	0	1,757	0.15%	0
Communist Party of India	1	0	9,314	0.82%	0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	55	26	520,697	45.82%	37
Indian National Congress	46	25	424,241	37.33%	12
Janata Party	10	0	1,138	0.10%	0
All India Forward Block	1	0	7,631	0.67%	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	18,182	1.60%	2
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	14	7	119,599	10.52%	6
Independents	81	0	33,846	2.98%	3
Total	220	60	1,136,405

Rajya Sabha

Main article: 1988 Indian Rajya Sabha elections