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Contested 8 general elections between 1962 and 2019, winning 9 Lok Sabha seats from 567 candidacies. 78 assembly seats won in 23 states.
Lok Sabha overall · since 1962
8
Elections contested
9
Seats won, all time
5
Best result (1991)
0.5%
Avg. vote share
567 candidacies fielded in total
Latest (2019)
0
4 contested · 0.00% of the national vote
Strike rate, all time
1.6%
seats won per seat contested
Seats won
Across every general election contested, Lok Sabha
Results Overview
- Won9 (2%)
- Lost558 (98%)
National vote share
Share of all valid votes cast in India, not of seats contested
A regional party fighting 40 seats out of 543 is capped at a low national share however well it does. Read this line against the seats chart above, not on its own.
Key highlights
- Best-ever result was 5 seats in 1991, on 3.34% of the national vote.
- At the 2019 election it contested 4 seats and won 0, a 0% strike rate.
- Strongest constituency is MADURAI, Tamil Nadu, won 1 time, most recently in 1998.
- Holds a state assembly record in 23 states, with 78 assembly seats won overall.
Totals
Across 8 general elections the party has polled 1.15 cr votes and lost 516 deposits. It has won 78 assembly seats across 54 state elections. Machine-readable at /api/parties/jp.
