1993 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 1993 included elections to nine 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
15 February 1993	Tripura		President's Rule			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Dasarath Deb
	Nagaland		President's Rule			Indian National Congress	S. C. Jamir
19 February 1993	Meghalaya		Indian National Congress	D. D. Lapang		Indian National Congress	S. C. Marak
11 September 1993	Himachal Pradesh		President's Rule			Indian National Congress	Virbhadra Singh
6 November 1993	Delhi		Elections were not conducted to the assembly of Delhi			Bharatiya Janata Party	Madan Lal Khurana
11 November 1993	Rajasthan		President's Rule			Bharatiya Janata Party	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
October-November 1993	Uttar Pradesh		President's Rule			Samajwadi Party	Mulayam Singh Yadav
24 November 1993	Madhya Pradesh		President's Rule			Indian National Congress	Digvijaya Singh
30 November 1993	Mizoram		Indian National Congress	Lal Thanhawla		Indian National Congress	Lal Thanhawla

Legislative Assembly elections

Delhi

Main article: 1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party		47.82	49
Indian National Congress		34.48	14
Janata Dal		12.65	4
Bahujan Samaj Party		1.88	0
Communist Party (Marxist)		0.38	0
Communist Party		0.21	0
Janata Party		0.20	0
Shiv Sena		0.14	0
All India Forward Bloc		0.03	0
Unrecognised parties		1.29	0
Independents		5.92	3
Invalid/blank votes	60,902	–	–
Total	3,612,713	100	70
Registered voters/turnout	5,850,545	61.75	–
Source:ECI [1]

Himachal Pradesh

Main article: 1993 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	1,135,203	48.82	52	+43
	Bharatiya Janata Party	840,233	36.13	8	–38
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	17,347	0.75	1	+1
	Others	105,475	4.54	0	0
	Independents	227,050	9.76	7	+6
Total		2,325,308	100.00	68	0
Valid votes		2,325,308	99.22
Invalid/blank votes		18,305	0.78
Total votes		2,343,613	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		3,277,625	71.50
Source: ECI[2]

Madhya Pradesh

Main article: 1993 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Source:^[3]

SN	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress	318	174	118	40.67%
2	Bharatiya Janata Party	320	117	-103	38.82%
3	Bahujan Samaj Party	286	11	+9	7.05%
4	Janata Dal	257	4	-24	1.87
5	Communist Party of India	63	2	-1	0.98%
6	Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha	23	1	+ 1	0.40%
7	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	1	0	0.32%
8	Krantikari Samajwadi Manch	4	1	0	0.21%
9	Republican Party of India (Kamble)	10	1	+ 1	0.10%
10	Independent	320	8	-2	5.88%
	Total		320

Meghalaya

Main article: 1993 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election

← Summary of the 19 February 1993 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results →

Parties and coalitions		Popular vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Indian National Congress (INC)	282,139	34.62	1.97	24	2
	Hill People's Union (HPU)	175,487	21.53	5.31	11	8
	Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP)	79,824	9.8	2.88	8	2
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (Armison Marak Group)	64,603	7.93	3.25	3	1
	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	29,948	3.68		0
	Meghalaya Progressive People's Party (MPPP)	20,117	2.47		2
	Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC)	17,423	2.14	1.06	2
	Janata Dal (B)	2,586	0.32		0
	Communist Party of India (CPI)	1,138	0.14	0.22	0
	Janata Party	841	0.1		0
	Independents (IND)	140,793	17.28	2.31	10	1
Total		814,899	100.00		60	±0
Source: Election Commission of India[4]

Mizoram

Main article: 1993 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	106,320	33.10	16	7
	Mizo National Front	129,813	40.41	14	0
	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,004	3.11	0	New
	Independents	75,097	23.38	10	8
Total		321,234	100.00	40	0
Valid votes		321,234	99.05
Invalid/blank votes		3,089	0.95
Total votes		324,323	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		401,669	80.74
Source: ECI[5]

Nagaland

Main article: 1993 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	335,834	45.95	35	–1
	Nagaland Peoples Council	239,505	32.77	17	New
	Democratic Labour Party	3,755	0.51	1	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	3,755	0.51	0	New
	Independents	148,074	20.26	7	+7
Total		730,923	100.00	60	0
Valid votes		730,923	99.29
Invalid/blank votes		5,206	0.71
Total votes		736,129	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		802,911	91.68
Source: ECI[6]

Rajasthan

Main article: 1993 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election

Source:^[7]

Party		Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party	95
	Indian National Congress	76
	Janata Dal	6
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1
	Independents	21
Total		199

Tripura

Main article: 1993 Tripura Legislative Assembly election

Performance of the political parties in this election

Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	1988 Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	38	0	27,078	2.02%	0
Communist Party of India	2	0	18,058	1.35%	0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	51	44	599,943	44.78%	26
Indian National Congress	46	10	438,561	32.73%	25
Janata Dal(B)	2	1	20,981	1.57%	-
All India Forward Block	1	1	10,658	0.80%	0
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	2	21,235	1.58%	2
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	14	1	100,742	7.52%	-
Amra Bangali	42	0	19,592	1.46%	-
Independents	207	1	82,541	6.16%	0
Total	407	60	1,339,838

Source:^[8]

Uttar Pradesh

Main article: 1993 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Source:^[9]

Party Name	Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	177
Samajwadi Party (SP)	109
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	67
Communist Party of India (CPI)	3
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM)	1
Indian National Congress (INC)	28
Janata Dal (JD)	27
Janata Party (JP)	1
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD)	1
Independents	8
Total	422

Rajya Sabha

Main article: 1993 Indian Rajya Sabha elections