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India Lok Sabha Election, 1991

521 seats · vs 1989 (529-seat house — comparison approximate) · turnout 55.4%

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Party standings

India Lok Sabha Election, 1991 · 25 parties won seats

Derived

INC232
BJP120
JD59
CPM35
CPI14
TDP13
ADK11
Others37

Ring and figures are seats won.

Party	Seats	Votes	Vote share	Contested
INCIndian National Congress	23245%	10,15,50,979	36.5%	492
BJPBharatiya Janata Party	12023%	5,58,23,618	20.1%	472
JDJanata Dal	5911%	3,25,89,180	11.7%	308
CPMCommunist Party of India (Marxist)	357%	1,69,54,797	6.1%	60
CPICommunist Party of India	143%	68,51,114	2.5%	42
TDPTelugu Desam Party	132%	82,23,271	3.0%	35
ADKAnna Dravidar Kazhagam	112%	44,70,542	1.6%	11
JMMJharkhand Mukti Morcha	61%	15,25,200	0.5%	15
JPJanahitha Paksha	51%	92,67,096	3.3%	349
SHSShiv Sena	41%	22,08,712	0.8%	22
RSPRashtriya Sarvajan Party	41%	17,49,730	0.6%	9
FBLFBL	31%	15,01,619	0.5%	20
BSPBahujan Samaj Party	20%	44,23,314	1.6%	232
MULMUL	20%	8,45,418	0.3%	20
INDIndependent	10%	1,15,76,839	4.2%	5585
AGPAsom Gana Parishad	10%	14,89,898	0.5%	14
JDGJDG	10%	13,99,702	0.5%	10
ICSSCSIcs (Scs)	10%	9,82,954	0.4%	28
MIMAll India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	10%	4,56,900	0.2%	2
KECMKerala Congress (M)	10%	3,84,255	0.1%	1

+ 127 smaller parties / independents with under 1% of the vote.

House composition

Majority line at 261

1991 · selected

Majority 261

INC232BJP120JD59CPM35CPI14TDP13ADK11JMM6JP5SHS4+15 more · 22 seats

1989 · previous

Majority 265

Vote share by party

Share of valid votes · 1989 → 1991

1989 1991· by party

40%30%20%10%0%

39.5

36.5

11.4

20.1

17.8

11.7

6.5

6.1

3.3

3.0

0.0

3.3

5.3

4.2

INCBJPJDCPMTDPJPIND

Seat change

1991 seats minus 1989 seats

seats lostseats gained

INC

197 → 232

+35

BJP

85 → 120

+35

143 → 59

−84

CPM

33 → 35

CPI

12 → 14

TDP

2 → 13

+11

ADK

11 → 11

JMM

3 → 6

0 → 5

SHS

1 → 4

Vote-share movement

Statewide, 1989 → 1991

share lostshare gained

BJP

11.4% → 20.1%

+8.7%

0.0% → 3.3%

+3.3%

SHS

0.1% → 0.8%

+0.7%

AGP

0.0% → 0.5%

+0.5%

JDG

0.0% → 0.5%

+0.5%

DMK

2.4% → 2.1%

−0.3%

TDP

3.3% → 3.0%

−0.3%

CPM

6.5% → 6.1%

−0.4%

BSP

2.1% → 1.6%

−0.5%

SADM

0.8% → 0.0%

−0.7%

Biggest INC–BJP swings

Seats where the INC-vs-BJP vote gap moved most, 1989 → 1991. Bold = the seat changed hands.

Swing = (INC share − BJP share) this year, minus the same gap last time. A bar to the right means the seat moved toward INC; to the left, toward BJP.

toward BJPtoward INC

Godhra

Gujarat

−106.6%

Amreli

Gujarat

−95.1%

Porbandar

Gujarat

−90.4%

Kaira

Gujarat

−88.0%

Chhota Udaipur

Gujarat

−85.5%

Sabarkantha

Gujarat

−84.5%

Gonda

Uttar Pradesh

−83.5%

Junagadh

Gujarat

−81.3%

Patan

Gujarat

−80.1%

Banaskantha

Gujarat

−79.1%

Secunderabad

Andhra Pradesh

−70.0%

Basti

Uttar Pradesh

−69.7%

Closest races · 1991

Ranked by margin as a share of valid votes · tap a seat for full results

All constituencies · 1991

521 seats · alphabetical · tap for full results · ⇄ = changed party since 1989