The elections in India in 1967 included the 1967 Indian general election and nine state legislative assembly elections.

General election

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh

Assam

Bihar

Delhi

Goa, Daman and Diu

, - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center colspan=2, Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seats contested
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , % of Votes
, - , , align="left", Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, , 26, , 16, , 111,110, , 40.42% , - , , align="left", United Goans Party (Sequeira Group), , 30, , 12, , 104,426, , 37.98% , - , , align="left", Independents, , 156, , 2, , 48,471, , 17.63% , - !colspan=2, Total!!226!!30!!264.007!!100% , -

Gujarat

Haryana

Himachal Pradesh

Jammu and Kashmir

Kerala

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9; text-align:center;" ! class="unsortable" , ! Political Party !! Flag !! Seats
Contested !! Won !! Net Change
in seats !! % of
Seats ! Votes !! Vote % !! Change in
vote % , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Bharatiya Jana Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) ( ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the po ...

, , 22 , , 0 , , NA , , 0 , , 55,584 , , 0.88 , , NA , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India ,

, 22 , , 19 , , 16 , , 14.29 , , 538,004 , , 8.57 , , 0.27 , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...

, 59 , , 52 , , 12 , , 39.10 , , 1,476,456 , , 23.51 , , 3.64 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

, , 133 , , 9 , , 27 , , 6.77 , , 2,789,556 , , 35.43 , , 1.88 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Praja Socialist Party , , 7 , , 0 , , NA , , 0 , , 13,991 , , 0.22 , , NA , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Samyukta Socialist Party , , 21 , , 19 , , 6 , , 14.29 , , 527,662 , , 8.4 , , 0.27 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Swatantra Party The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party, that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly soci ...

, , 6 , , 0 , , NA , , 14.29 , , 13,105 , , 0.21 , , NA , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Kerala Congress , , 61 , , 5 , , 1 , , 3.76 , , 475,172 , , 7.57 , , 5.01 , - style="background: #90EE90;" , , , 15 , , 14 , , 8 , , 10.53 , , 424,159 , , 6.75 , , 2.92 , - , , , 75 , , 15 , , 3 , , 11.28 , , 531,783 , , 8.47 , , 5.27 , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, ! style="text-align:center;" , Total Seats !! 133 ( 0) !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 8,613,658 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! colspan = 2, 6,518,272 (75.67%)

Madras

Source:

Maharashtra

, - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable", !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center, Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of candidates
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of elected
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , % of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seat change
, - , , align="left",

, , 270, , 203, , 6,288,564, , 47.03%, , 12 , - , , align="left", Peasants and Workers Party of India, , 58, , 19, , 1,043,239, , 7.80%, , 4 , - , , align="left", Communist Party of India, , 41, , 10, , 651,077, , 4.87%, , 4 , - , , align="left", Praja Socialist Party, , 66, , 8, , 545,935, , 4.08%, , 1 , - , , align="left",

Republican Party of India The Republican Party of India (RPI, often called the Republican Party or simply Republican) is a political party in India. It has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B. R. Ambedkar. The 'Training School for Entrance to Poli ...

, , 79, , 5, , 890,377, , 6.66%, , 5 , - , , align="left",

, , 166, , 4, , 1,092,670, , 8.17%, , 4 , - , , align="left", Samyukta Socialist Party, , 48, , 4, , 616,466, , 4.61%, , 4 , - , , align="left",

, , 11, , 1, , 145,083, , 1.08%, , 1 , - , , align="left", Independents, , 463, , 16, , 1,948,223, , 14.57%, , 1 , - , - , , align="left", Total, , 1242, , 270, , 13,371,735, , , -

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of ...

Mysore

, - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable", !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center, Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Contestants
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seat change
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Vote share
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Net change
, - style="background: #90EE90;" , , align="left",

, , 216, , 126, , 12, , 3,636,374, , 48.43%, , 1.79 , - , , align="left", Praja Socialist Party, , 52, , 20, , 0 , , 666,662, , 8.88%, , 5.20 , - , , align="left",

, , 45, , 16, , 7, , 497,055 , , 6.62%, , 0.53 , - , , align="left", Samyukta Socialist Party, , 17, , 6, , , , 185,222, , 2.47%, , , - , , align="left",

, , 37, , 4, , , , 211,966, , 2.82%, , , - , , align="left", Independents, , , , 41, , 14, , 2,129,786, , 28.36%, , ''N/A'' , - , , align="left", Total, , , , 216, , , , , , , , , -

Odisha

, , 140 , , 31 , , 51 , , 22.14 , , 12,35,149 , , 30.66 , , 12.62 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 19 , , 0 , , "New" , , 0 , , 21,788 , , 4.07 , , "New" , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Praja Socialist Party , , 33 , , 21 , , 11 , , 7.85 , , 4,93,750 , , 41.16 , , 10.73 , - , , style="text-align:left;" , Communist Party of India , , 31 , , 7 , , 3 , , 5 , , 2,11,999 , , 20.71 , , 6.61 , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 10 , , 1 , , "New" , , 0.71 , , 46,597 , , 18.16 , , "New" , - , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 101 , , 49 , , "New" , , 35 , , 9,09,421 , , 34.78 , , "New" , - , , style="text-align:left;" , JAC , , 47 , , 26 , , "New" , , 18.57 , , 5,42,734 , , 37.17 , , "New" , - , , , 21 , , 2 , , N/A , , 1.42 , , 5,05,394 , , 17.72 , , N/A , - class="unsortable" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan = 3, ! style="text-align:center;" , Total Seats !! 140 ( 0) !! style="text-align:center;" , Voters !! 98,73,057 !! style="text-align:center;" , Turnout !! colspan = 2, 43,48,838 (44.05%)

Punjab

Parties in green box formed coalition government

Rajasthan

Tripura

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...

, , 280, , 127, , 5,207,930, , 41.13%, , 30 , - , , align="left",

, , 135, , 43, , 2,293,026, , 18.11%, , 43 , - , , align="left",

Bangla Congress The Bangla Congress was a regional political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed through a split in the Indian National Congress in 1966 and later co-governed with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) in two United F ...

, , 80, , 34, , 1,286,028, , 10.16%, , 34 , - , , align="left", Communist Party of India, , 62, , 16, , 827,196, , 6.53%, , 34 , - , , align="left", All India Forward Bloc, , 42, , 13, , 561,148, , 4.43%, , , - , , align="left", Samyukta Socialist Party, , 26, , 7, , 269,234, , 2.13%, , 7 , - , , align="left", Praja Socialist Party, , 26, , 7, , 238,694, , 1.88%, , 2 , - , , align="left", Revolutionary Socialist Party, , 16, , 6, , 238,694, , 2.14%, , 2 , - , , align="left",

Socialist Unity Centre of India The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) or SUCI(C), previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre", is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in India. The party was founded by Shib ...

, , 8, , 4, , 238,694, , 0.72%, , 1 , - , , align="left",

Marxist Forward Bloc The Marxist Forward Bloc is a political party in India, a splinter group of the All India Forward Bloc. The MFB was formed in 1953 as Satyapriya Banerjee, a member of the AIFB Central Secretariat, Amar Bose, Suhurit Chaudhury and Ram Chatterji wer ...

, , 58, , 1, , 167,934, , 1.33%, , 1 , - , , align="left",

Revolutionary Communist Party of India The Revolutionary Communist Party of India ( RCPI) is a political party in India. The party was founded as the Communist League by Saumyendranath Tagore in 1934, breaking away from the Communist Party of India (CPI). RCPI led armed uprisings af ...

, , 58, , 1, , 167,934, , 1.33%, , 8 , - , , align="left",

, , 58, , 1, , 167,934, , 1.33%, , 1 , - , , align="left",

, , 21, , 1, , 102,576, , 0.81%, , 1 , - , , align="left", Independents, , 327, , 31, , 1,708,011, , 13.49%, , 20 , - , , align="left", Total, , 1058, , 280, , 12,663,030, , , , , -

References

External links

Election Commission of India
{{Legislatures of India 1967 elections in India

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