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Elections in the Republic of India in 1992 included elections to the Punjab Legislative Assembly, seats in the Rajya Sabha and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.

Legislative Assembly elections edit

Punjab edit

Summary of results of the Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 1992^[1]
Political Party	No. of Candidates	Seats won	Number of Votes	% of Votes
Indian National Congress	116	87	13,17,075	43.83%
Shiromani Akali Dal	58	3	1,56,171	5.20%
Bharatiya Janata Party	66	6	4,95,161	16.48%
Communist Party of India	20	4	1,09,386	3.64%
Bahujan Samaj Party	105	9	4,90,552	17.59%
Communist Party of India (M)	17	1	72,061	2.40%
Indian People's Front	2	1	2,292	0.08%
Janata Dal	37	1	64,666	2.15%
Independents	151	4	2,77,706	9.24%
Total^[2]	579	117	30,05,083

Rajya Sabha edit

President edit

Source: Web archive of Election Commission of India website^[3]^[4]

Candidate	Electoral Values
Shankar Dayal Sharma	675,864
George Gilbert Swell	346,485
Ram Jethmalani	2,704
Kaka Joginder Singh	1,135
Total	1,026,188

Vice-president edit

Result of the Indian vice-presidential election, 1992^[5]
	Candidate	Party	Electoral Votes	% of Votes
	K. R. Narayanan	INC	700	99.86
	Kaka Joginder Singh	Independent	1	0.14

Total			701	100.00

Valid Votes			701	98.59
Invalid Votes			10	1.41
Turnout			711	90.00
Abstentions			79	10.00
Electors			790

References edit

^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1992 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
^ The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.
^ "Backgrounder". pib.nic.in. Archived from the original on 29 May 2000.
^ "Election to the Office of President of India 2017" (PDF). eci.nic.in. Media Division, Election Commission of India. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017.
^ BACKGROUND MATERIAL REGARDING FOURTEENTH ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, 2012, ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA