Nagaland Nationalist Organisation was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...

, India. It formed the government in Nagaland from 1964 to 1974. Nagaland was converted to a state by the ''State of Nagaland Act, 1962'' and elections were called for in 1964. There were no political parties registered for the first

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and so all the candidates, many of whom were members of the Nagaland National Organisation, fought as Independents. In 1976, it merged with the

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 Em ...

Chief Ministers

Electoral history

State

Elections to the

Nagaland Legislative Assembly Nagaland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Nagaland. Nagaland became a state of India on 1 December 1963 and after election in January 1964, the first Nagaland Legislative Assembly was formed on 11 Februa ...

National

Elections for the

Nagaland (Lok Sabha constituency) Nagaland Lok Sabha constituency is the only Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) in the Northeastern state of Nagaland. It participated in its first general election in 1967 and its first member of parliament (MP) was S. C. Jamir ...

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{{Authority control Defunct political parties in Nagaland Political parties disestablished in 1976