1994 elections in India

Elections in the Republic of India in 1994 included elections to four state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.

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Date(s)	State		Chief Minister before		Elected Chief Minister
16 November 1994	Goa	Indian National Congress	Wilfred de Souza	Indian National Congress	Pratapsingh Rane
16 November 1994	Sikkim	Sikkim Sangram Parishad	Nar Bahadur Bhandari	Sikkim Democratic Front	Pawan Kumar Chamling
1 December 1994	Andhra Pradesh	Indian National Congress	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy	Telugu Desam Party	N. T. Rama Rao
13 December 1994	Karnataka	Indian National Congress	Veerappa Moily	Janata Dal	H. D. Deve Gowda

No	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Seats change	Vote Share	Swing
1	Telugu Desam Party	251	216	+142	44.14%	+7.60%
2	Indian National Congress	294	26	-155	33.85%	-13.24%
3	Communist Party of India	21	19	+11	3.39%	+0.75%
4	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	16	15	+9	2.96%	+0.50%
5	Bharatiya Janata Party	280	3	-2	3.89%	+2.11%
6	Majlis Bachao Tehreek	9	2	+2	0.49%	0.49%
7	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	20	1	-3	0.70%	-1.29%

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Indian National Congress	216,165	37.54	18
	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	128,033	22.24	12
	Bhartiya Janata Party	52,094	9.05	4
	United Goans Democratic Party	47,765	8.30	3
	Bahujan Samaj Party	9,109	1.58	0
	Shiv Sena	8,347	1.45	0
	Communist Party of India	3,424	0.59	0
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,431	0.42	0
	Gomantak Lok Pox	1,497	0.26	0
	Janata Party	1,434	0.25	0
	Samajwadi Party	205	0.04	0
	Republican Party of India	177	0.03	0
	Independents	105,108	18.25	3
Total		575,789	100.00	40

Valid votes		575,789	98.31
Invalid/blank votes		9,889	1.69
Total votes		585,678	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		822,631	71.20
Source: ECI

Parties	Seats contested	Seats won	% of votes	Seat change	Vote share % change
Janata Dal	221	115	33.54%	77	6.46%
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	223	40	16.99%	36	12.85%
Indian National Congress	221	34	26.95%	143	16.55%
Karnataka Congress Party	218	10	7.31%	New Party	New Party
Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha	108	1	2.65%	1	0.94%
Bahujan Samaj Party	77	1	0.78%	1	0.74
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	13	1	0.49%	1	0.04
Indian National League	2	1	0.29%	New Party	New Party
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	4	1	0.24%	-	0.06%
Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha	42	1	0.18%	New Party	New Party
Bharatiya Republican Paksha	2	1	0.13%	1	0.09%
Others		0	1.05%	3	2.37%
Independent	1256	17	9.4%	5	1.28%
Total (Turnout %)		224	100.00


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Sikkim Democratic Front	72,856	42.00	19	New
	Sikkim Sangram Parishad	60,851	35.08	10	–22
	Indian National Congress	26,045	15.02	2	+2
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	2,906	1.68	0	New
	Bharatiya Janata Party	274	0.16	0	New
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	270	0.16	0	New
	Independents	10,255	5.91	1	+1
Total		173,457	100.00	32	0

Valid votes		173,457	97.44
Invalid/blank votes		4,566	2.56
Total votes		178,023	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		217,743	81.76
Source: ECI^[1]

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