1967 elections in India

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

General election



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	59,490,701	40.78	283	–78
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	13,580,935	9.31	35	+21
	Swatantra Party	12,646,847	8.67	44	+26
	Communist Party of India	7,458,396	5.11	23	–6
	Samyukta Socialist Party	7,171,627	4.92	23	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,246,522	4.28	19	New
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	5,529,405	3.79	25	+18
	Praja Socialist Party	4,456,487	3.06	13	+1
	Republican Party of India	3,607,711	2.47	1	–2
	Bangla Congress	1,204,356	0.83	5	New
	Peasants and Workers Party of India	1,028,755	0.71	2	+2
	Akali Dal – Sant Fateh Singh	968,712	0.66	3	New
	All India Forward Bloc	627,910	0.43	2	0
	Indian Union Muslim League	413,868	0.28	2	0
	Kerala Congress	321,219	0.22	0	New
	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	210,020	0.14	1	New
	Akali Dal – Master Tara Singh	189,290	0.13	0	New
	Jana Kranti Dal	183,211	0.13	1	New
	Jana Congress	136,631	0.09	0	New
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference	112,492	0.08	1	0
	United Goans – Seqveria Group	100,137	0.07	1	New
	Peoples Front	42,725	0.03	0	New
	Democratic National Conference	30,788	0.02	0	New
	United Goans – Furtadd Group	1,714	0.00	0	New
	Nagaland Nationalist Organisation	0	0.00	1	New
	Independents	20,106,051	13.78	35	+15
Appointed members^[a]				3	–11
Total		145,866,510	100.00	523	+15

Valid votes		145,866,510	95.51
Invalid/blank votes		6,858,101	4.49
Total votes		152,724,611	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		250,207,401	61.04
Source: ECI

^ Two representing Anglo-Indians and one representing the North-East Frontier Agency.

Legislative Assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	291,783	2.11	3
	Communist Party of India	1,077,499	7.78	11
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1,053,855	7.61	9
	Indian National Congress	6,292,649	45.42	165
	Praja Socialist Party	28,564	0.21	0
	Republican Party of India	36,757	0.27	1
	Samyukta Socialist Party	49,669	0.36	1
	Swatantra Party	1,363,382	9.84	29
	Independents	3,658,928	26.41	68
Total		13,853,086	100.00	287

Valid votes		13,853,086	85.59
Invalid/blank votes		2,333,093	14.41
Total votes		16,186,179	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		20,934,068	77.32
Source: ECI^[1]

Assam

Summary of results of the 1967 Assam Legislative Assembly election^[2]

	Political Party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %
	Indian National Congress		120	73	44.66%	1354748	43.60%
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference		12	9	57.86%	108447	3.49%
	Communist Party of India		22	7	30.19%	108447	5.15%
	Praja Socialist Party		35	5	23.20%	213094	6.86%
	Samyukta Socialist Party		17	4	26.37%	101802	3.28%
	Swatantra Party		13	2	14.07%	46187	1.49%
	Independent		124	26	36.12%	1004695	32.33%
Total Seats			105	Voters	5449305	Turnout	3369230 (61.83%)

Bihar


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	4,479,460	33.09	128	–57
	Samyukta Socialist Party	2,385,961	17.62	68	New
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	1,410,722	10.42	26	+23
	Praja Socialist Party	942,889	6.96	18	–11
	Communist Party of India	935,977	6.91	24	+12
	Jan Kranti Dal	451,412	3.33	13	New
	Swatantra Party	315,184	2.33	3	–47
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	173,656	1.28	4	New
	Republican Party of India	23,893	0.18	1	New
	Independents	2,419,469	17.87	33	–21
Total		13,538,623	100.00	318	0

Valid votes		13,538,623	73.37
Invalid/blank votes		4,914,436	26.63
Total votes		18,453,059	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		27,743,190	66.51
Source: ECI^[3]

Delhi



Party		Seats
Party		Elected	Nominated	Total
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	33	2	35
	Indian National Congress	19	2	21
	Republican Party of India	2	0	2
	Independents	2	1	3
Total		56	5	61

Source: Parveen,^[4] Delhi Gazetteer^[5]

Goa, Daman and Diu

Summary of results of the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly election, 1967^[6]
Political Party		Seats contested	Seats won	Number of Votes	% of Votes
	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	26	16	111,110	40.42%
	United Goans Party (Sequeira Group)	30	12	104,426	37.98%
	Independents	156	2	48,471	17.63%
Total^[7]		226	30	264.007	100%

Gujarat

Haryana



Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Indian National Congress	1,252,290	41.33	48
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	436,145	14.39	12
	Samyukta Socialist Party	108,172	3.57	0
	Swatantra Party	96,410	3.18	3
	Republican Party of India	87,861	2.90	2
	Communist Party of India	27,238	0.90	0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16,379	0.54	0
	Praja Socialist Party	6,477	0.21	0
	Independents	998,969	32.97	16
Total		3,029,941	100.00	81

Valid votes		3,029,941	76.48
Invalid/blank votes		931,825	23.52
Total votes		3,187,946	–
Registered voters/turnout		4,387,980	72.65
Source: ECI^[8]

Himachal Pradesh



Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Indian National Congress	323,247	42.19	34
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	106,261	13.87	7
	Communist Party of India	22,173	2.89	2
	Swatantra Party	14,767	1.93	1
	Others	7,787	1.02	0
	Independents	291,884	38.10	16
Total		766,119	100.00	60

Valid votes		766,119	94.54
Invalid/blank votes		44,234	5.46
Total votes		810,353	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,582,103	51.22
Source: ECI^[9]

Jammu and Kashmir

Kerala

Summary of results of the 1967 Kerala Legislative Assembly election^[10]^[11]
Political Party	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	22	0	NA	0	55,584	0.88	NA
Communist Party of India	22	19	16	14.29	538,004	8.57	0.27
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	59	52	12	39.10	1,476,456	23.51	3.64
Indian National Congress	133	9	27	6.77	2,789,556	35.43	1.88
Praja Socialist Party	7	0	NA	0	13,991	0.22	NA
Samyukta Socialist Party	21	19	6	14.29	527,662	8.4	0.27
Swatantra Party	6	0	NA	14.29	13,105	0.21	NA
Kerala Congress	61	5	1	3.76	475,172	7.57	5.01
IUML	15	14	8	10.53	424,159	6.75	2.92
Independent	75	15	3	11.28	531,783	8.47	5.27
	Total Seats	133 ( 0)	Voters	8,613,658	Turnout	6,518,272 (75.67%)

Madras

Source:^[12]^[13]


Alliances	Party		Popular Vote	Vote %	Seats contested	Seats won	Change
United Front^[14] Seats: 179 Seat Change: 121 Popular Vote: 8,051,433 Popular Vote %: 52.59%		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	6,230,552	40.69%	174	137	87
		Swatantra Party	811,232	5.30%	27	20	12
		CPI(M)	623,114	4.07%	22	11	11
		Praja Socialist Party	136,188	0.89%	4	4	4
		Indian Union Muslim League	95,494	0.62%	3	3	3
		Samyukta Socialist Party	84,188	0.55%	3	2	2
	DMK Backed Independents		70,665	0.46%	2	2	2
Indian National Congress Seats: 51 Seat Change: 84 Popular Vote: 6,293,378 Popular Vote %: 41.10%		Indian National Congress	6,293,378	41.10%	232	51	84
Others Seats: 4 Seat Change: 4		Independent	591,214	3.86%	246	1	4
		Communist Party of India	275,932	1.80%	32	2
		Forward Bloc	44,714	0.29%	1	1
		Republican Party of India	31,286	0.20%	13	0
		Bharatiya Jana Sangh	22,745	0.15%	24	0
Total	11 Political Parties		15,310,702	100%	—	234	28

Maharashtra

Summary of results of the Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1967
Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Seat change
Indian National Congress	270	203	6,288,564	47.03%	12
Peasants and Workers Party of India	58	19	1,043,239	7.80%	4
Communist Party of India	41	10	651,077	4.87%	4
Praja Socialist Party	66	8	545,935	4.08%	1
Republican Party of India	79	5	890,377	6.66%	5
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	166	4	1,092,670	8.17%	4
Samyukta Socialist Party	48	4	616,466	4.61%	4
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	11	1	145,083	1.08%	1
Independents	463	16	1,948,223	14.57%	1
Total	1242	270	13,371,735

Manipur



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	101,504	32.53	16	New
	Sanghata Socialist Party	36,520	11.70	4	New
	Communist Party of India	17,062	5.47	1	New
	Praja Socialist Party	2,417	0.77	0	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,093	0.67	0	New
	Independents	152,419	48.85	9	New
Total		312,015	100.00	30	0

Valid votes		312,015	82.00
Invalid/blank votes		68,505	18.00
Total votes		380,520	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		468,707	81.19
Source: ECI^[15]

Mysore

Summary of results of the Mysore Legislative Assembly election, 1967
Political Party	Contestants	Seats won	Seat change	Number of votes	Vote share	Net change
Indian National Congress	216	126	12	3,636,374	48.43%	1.79
Praja Socialist Party	52	20	0	666,662	8.88%	5.20
Swatantra Party	45	16	7	497,055	6.62%	0.53
Samyukta Socialist Party	17	6		185,222	2.47%
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	37	4		211,966	2.82%
Independents		41	14	2,129,786	28.36%	N/A
Total		216

Odisha

Summary of results of the 1967 Odisha Legislative Assembly election
Political Party	Seats Contested	Won	Net Change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
Indian National Congress	140	31	51	22.14	12,35,149	30.66	12.62
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	19	0	"New"	0	21,788	4.07	"New"
Praja Socialist Party	33	21	11	7.85	4,93,750	41.16	10.73
Communist Party of India	31	7	3	5	2,11,999	20.71	6.61
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	10	1	"New"	0.71	46,597	18.16	"New"
Swatantra Party	101	49	"New"	35	9,09,421	34.78	"New"
JAC	47	26	"New"	18.57	5,42,734	37.17	"New"
Independent	21	2	N/A	1.42	5,05,394	17.72	N/A
	Total Seats	140 ( 0)	Voters	98,73,057	Turnout	43,48,838 (44.05%)

Punjab


Part	contested	Seats won	change in seats	popular vote	%
Akali Dal - Sant Fateh Singh	59	24	24	8,71,742	20.48
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	49	9	1	4,18,921	9.84%
Communist Party of India	19	5	4	2,21,494	5.20%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	13	3	3	1,38,857	3.26%
Republican Party of India	17	3	3	76,089	1.79%
Akali Dal Master Tara Singh Group	61	2	2	1,78,746	4.20%
Socialist Party	8	1	3	30,591	0.72%
Independents	235	9	9	6,83,369	16.05%
Indian National Congress	102	48	42	15,94,160	37.45%
Others	19	0		43,144	1.02%
Total^[17]	602	104		42,57,113

Parties in green box formed coalition government

Rajasthan



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	2,798,411	41.42	89	+1
	Swatantra Party	1,493,018	22.10	48	+12
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	789,609	11.69	22	+7
	Sanghata Socialist Party	321,574	4.76	8	New
	Communist Party of India	79,826	1.18	0	0
	Communist Party of India	65,531	0.97	1	–4
	Praja Socialist Party	54,618	0.81	0	–2
	Jai Telangana Party	45,576	0.67	0	New
	Republican Party of India	8,932	0.13	0	New
	Independents	1,099,169	16.27	16	–6
Total		6,756,264	100.00	184	+8

Valid votes		6,756,264	79.34
Invalid/blank votes		1,759,342	20.66
Total votes		8,515,606	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		10,002,447	85.14
Source: ECI^[18]

Tripura

Performance of the political parties in this election
Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	No. of Votes	% of Votes	1963 Seats
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	5	0	1,506	0.35%	No data available
Communist Party of India	7	1	34,562	7.97%	No data available
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	2	93,739	21.61%	No data available
Indian National Congress	30	27	251,345	57.95%	No data available
Sanghata Socialist Party	1	0	83	0.02%	No data available
Independents	28	0	52,457	12.10%	No data available
Total	87	30	433,692

^[19]

Uttar Pradesh



Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	6,912,104	32.20	4.13%	199	50
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	4,651,738	21.67	5.21%	98	49
	Samyukta Socialist Party	2,140,924	9.97	7.41%	44	20
	Communist Party of India	692,942	3.23	1.85%	13	1
	Swatantra Party	1,016,284	4.73	0.13%	12	3
	Praja Socialist Party	878,738	4.09	7.43%	11	27
	Republican Party of India	889,010	4.14	0.40%	10	2
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	272,565	1.27	new party	1	new party
	Independents	4,013,661	18.70	5.99%	37	6
Total		21,467,966	100.00	–	425	5

Valid votes		21,467,966	93.38
Invalid/blank votes		1,521,785	6.62
Total votes		22,989,751	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		42,148,100	54.55

West Bengal

Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 1967^[20]
Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Seat change
Indian National Congress	280	127	5,207,930	41.13%	30
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	135	43	2,293,026	18.11%	43
Bangla Congress	80	34	1,286,028	10.16%	34
Communist Party of India	62	16	827,196	6.53%	34
All India Forward Bloc	42	13	561,148	4.43%
Samyukta Socialist Party	26	7	269,234	2.13%	7
Praja Socialist Party	26	7	238,694	1.88%	2
Revolutionary Socialist Party	16	6	238,694	2.14%	2
Socialist Unity Centre of India	8	4	238,694	0.72%	1
Marxist Forward Bloc	58	1	167,934	1.33%	1
Revolutionary Communist Party of India	58	1	167,934	1.33%	8
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	58	1	167,934	1.33%	1
Swatantra Party	21	1	102,576	0.81%	1
Independents	327	31	1,708,011	13.49%	20
Total	1058	280	12,663,030

References

^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 : To the Legislative Assembly of Assam". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
^ Nazima Parveen (2021). Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9789389000917. BJS won thirty-three of fifty-six seats of the Delhi Metropolitan Council election in 1967..
^ Radha Raman, ed. (1 April 1976). Delhi Gazetteer - 1976. Delhi. p. 974.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF GOA DAMAN & DIU" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013.
^ The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win one seat
^ "Haryana 1967". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
^ "Himachal Pradesh General Legislative Election 1967". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA" (PDF). www.ceo.kerala.gov.in. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA NEW DELHI.
^ Thomas Johnson Nossiter (1 January 1982). Communism in Kerala: A Study in Political Adaptation. University of California Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-520-04667-2.
^ "The Madras Legislative Assembly, 1962-67, A Review" (PDF). assembly.tn.gov.in. 24 August 1976. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2022.
^ "Tamil Nadu 1967".
^ Siddhartan, N. S. (17 June 1967). "Voting Pattern in the Fourth General Election. I: D M K Success in Madras". Economic and Political Weekly. 2 (24): 1083–88. JSTOR 4358065.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
^ "List of Polling Booth For Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1967". www.elections.in.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election Punjab 1967". Election Commission of India.
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
^ "1967 Tripura Election result".
^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013.

External links

Election Commission of India

[1] Two representing Anglo-Indians and one representing the North-East Frontier Agency.

[2] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

[AssamECI1951-3] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 : To the Legislative Assembly of Assam". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

[4] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 November 2021.

[Parveen2001-5] Nazima Parveen (2021). Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9789389000917. BJS won thirty-three of fifty-six seats of the Delhi Metropolitan Council election in 1967..

[6] Radha Raman, ed. (1 April 1976). Delhi Gazetteer - 1976. Delhi. p. 974.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[pdf-7] "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF GOA DAMAN & DIU" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013.

[8] The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win one seat

[election1967-9] "Haryana 1967". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

[pradesh1967-10] "Himachal Pradesh General Legislative Election 1967". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 8 July 2021.

[11] "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA" (PDF). www.ceo.kerala.gov.in. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA NEW DELHI.

[Nossiter1982p128-12] Thomas Johnson Nossiter (1 January 1982). Communism in Kerala: A Study in Political Adaptation. University of California Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-520-04667-2.

[13] "The Madras Legislative Assembly, 1962-67, A Review" (PDF). assembly.tn.gov.in. 24 August 1976. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2022.

[14] "Tamil Nadu 1967".

[Siddhartan-15] Siddhartan, N. S. (17 June 1967). "Voting Pattern in the Fourth General Election. I: D M K Success in Madras". Economic and Political Weekly. 2 (24): 1083–88. JSTOR 4358065.

[16] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Manipur". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 October 2021.

[17] "List of Polling Booth For Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1967". www.elections.in.

[eci-18] "Statistical Report on General Election Punjab 1967". Election Commission of India.

[19] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

[20] "1967 Tripura Election result".

[eci-wb-21] "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013.

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