Elections in the Republic of India in 1987 included elections to six state legislative assemblies, seats in the Rajya Sabha and the posts of President and vice president.
Political Party |
No. of candidates |
No. of elected |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lok Dal | 69 | 60 | 2,349,397 | 38.58% | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 20 | 16 | 613,819 | 10.08% | |
Indian National Congress | 0 | 5 | 1,776,820 | 29.18% | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 4 | 1 | 47,434 | 0.78% | |
Communist Party of India | 5 | 1 | 32,738 | 0.54% | |
Independents | 1045 | 7 | 1,128,803 | 18.54% | |
Total | 1322 | 90 | 6,089,130 |
Party | Seats |
---|---|
Communist Party of India (CPI) | 16 |
Communist Party of Indian (Marxist) (CPM) | 38 |
Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha) ICS(SCS) | 6 |
Indian National Congress (INC) | 33 |
Janta Party (JNP) | 7 |
Lok Dal (LKD) | 1 |
Kerala Congress (KEC) | 5 |
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) | 15 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | 5 |
Independent (IND) | 14 |
Total | 140 |
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independents[a] | 99,996 | 43.31 | 24 | 22 | |
Indian National Congress | 76,152 | 32.99 | 13 | 7 | |
Mizoram People's Conference | 54,717 | 23.70 | 3 | 5 | |
Total | 230,865 | 100.00 | 40 | 10 | |
Valid votes | 230,865 | 98.85 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,691 | 1.15 | |||
Total votes | 233,556 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 322,066 | 72.52 | |||
Source: ECI[5] |
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 193,199 | 36.10 | 34 | +10 | |
Naga National Democratic Party | 140,112 | 26.18 | 18 | –6 | |
Nagaland Peoples Front | 43,782 | 8.18 | 1 | New | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 926 | 0.17 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 157,173 | 29.37 | 7 | –5 | |
Total | 535,192 | 100.00 | 60 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 535,192 | 98.71 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 6,980 | 1.29 | |||
Total votes | 542,172 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 581,953 | 93.16 | |||
Source: ECI[6] |
Party | Candidates | Seats | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Left Front | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 212 | 187 | 10,285,723 | 39.12 |
All India Forward Bloc | 34 | 26 | 1,534,795 | 5.84 | |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 23 | 18 | 1,036,138 | 3.94 | |
Communist Party of India | 12 | 11 | 503,854 | 1.92 | |
Revolutionary Communist Party of India | 3 | 1 | 118,985 | 0.42 | |
Marxist Forward Bloc | 2 | 2 | 107,732 | 0.41 | |
Biplobi Bangla Congress | 1 | 0 | 42,261 | 0.16 | |
West Bengal Socialist Party and Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra) |
7 | 6 | 288,915 | 1.10 | |
Indian National Congress (I) | 294 | 40 | 10,989,520 | 41.81 | |
Socialist Unity Centre of India | 46 | 2 | 237,674 | 0.90 | |
Indian Union Muslim League | 36 | 1 | 162,850 | 0.62 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 57 | 0 | 134,867 | 0.51 | |
Janata Party | 30 | 0 | 41,475 | 0.16 | |
Lok Dal | 18 | 0 | 10,032 | 0.04 | |
Indian Congress (Socialist-Sarat Chandra Sinha) | 4 | 0 | 3,335 | 0.01 | |
Independents | 718 | 0 | 784,937 | 2.99 | |
Total | 1,497 | 294 | 26,283,093 | 100 | |
Source:ECI[7] |
Candidate | Electoral Values |
---|---|
R. Venkataraman | 740,148 |
V. R. Krishna Iyer | 281,550 |
Mithilesh Kumar | 2,223 |
Total | 1,023,921 |