1990 elections in India

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Overall Result

Date(s)	State	Government before		Chief Minister before	Government after		Elected Chief Minister	Maps
	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

Main article: 1990 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

Party		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

Main article: 1990 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election

Parties and coalitions	Popular vote		Seats
	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

Main article: 1990 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Manipur Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Odisha Legislative Assembly election

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

Main article: 1990 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election

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]