# 1998 elections in India
## Legislative Assembly elections
### Delhi

| | Indian National Congress | 1,952,071 | 47.75 | 52 | +38 |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,390,689 | 34.02 | 15 | –34 |
| | Janata Dal | 73,385 | 1.80 | 1 | –3 |
| | Others | 316,346 | 7.74 | 0 | 0 |
| | Independents | 355,773 | 8.70 | 2 | –1 |
| Total | Total | 4,088,264 | 100.00 | 70 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 4,088,264 | 99.11 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 36,722 | 0.89 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 4,124,986 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 8,420,141 | 48.99 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

### Gujarat

| Party | Party | Votes | % | +/– | Seats |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 7,300,826 | 44.88 | -4 | 117 |
| | Indian National Congress | 5,677,386 | 34.90 | +8 | 53 |
| | AIRJP | 1,902,171 | 11.69 | | 4 |
| | Janata Dal | 429,283 | 2.64 | | 4 |
| | Independent | 854,142 | 5.25 | | 3 |
| | SP | 64,913 | 0.40 | | 1 |
| | Bahujan Samaj Party | 12,742 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 |
| | CPI | 10,292 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 |
| | SAP | 7,512 | 0.05 | | – |
| | Republican Party of India | 4,642 | 0.03 | | – |
| | Shiv Sena | 2,800 | 0.02 | | – |
| | RJD | 1,884 | 0.01 | | – |
| Total | Total | 16,268,593 | 100.00 | – | 182 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 16,268,593 | 95.53 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 761,449 | 4.47 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 17,030,042 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 28,774,443 | 59.18 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

### Himachal Pradesh

| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats |
| | Indian National Congress | 1,110,055 | 43.51 | 31 |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 995,482 | 39.02 | 31 |
| | Himachal Vikas Congress | 245,584 | 9.63 | – |
| | Independents and Others | 200,248 | 7.85 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 2,551,369 | 100.00 | 63 |
| Source: |||||

### Jammu and Kashmir

Winner, runner-up, voter turnout, and victory margin in every constituency :
| Assembly Constituency | Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Party | Votes | % | Margin |
| 1 | Jammu West | 33.56% | Ashok Kumar Khajuria | | BJP | 13,164 | 54.61% | Ved Kumar | | INC | 6,967 | 28.9% | 6,197 |

### Madhya Pradesh

Source:
| SN | Party | Seats Contested | Seats won | Seats Changed | % Votes |
| 1 | Indian National Congress | 316 | 172 | -2 | 40.59 |
| 2 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 320 | 119 | +2 | 39.28 |
| 3 | Bahujan Samaj Party | 221 | 11 | 0 | 6.15 |
| 4 | Janata Dal | 144 | 4 | + 3 | 1.87 |
| 5 | Samajwadi Party | 228 | 4 | + 4 | 1.58 |
| 6 | Gondvana Gantantra Party | 81 | 1 | 0 | 0.82 |
| 7 | Ajeya Bharat Party | 78 | 1 | + 1 | 0.55 |
| 8 | Janata Party | 14 | 1 | + 1 | 0.20 |
| 9 | Republican Party of India | 20 | 1 | + 1 | 0.13 |
| 10 | Independent | 320 | 8 | - 1 | 6.49 |
| | Total | | 320 | | |

### Meghalaya

← Summary of the 16 February 1998 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election results → :
| Parties and coalitions | Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats |
| Parties and coalitions | Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | ±pp | Won | +/− |
| | Indian National Congress (INC) | 293,346 | 35.03 | 0.41 | 25 | 1 |
| | United Democratic Party (UDP) | 226,026 | 26.99 | 6.48 | 20 | 1 |
| | People's Democratic Movement (PDM) | 58,225 | 6.95 | | 3 | |
| | Hill State People's Democratic Party | 56,682 | 6.77 | | 3 | |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 41,924 | 5.01 | 1.33 | 3 | 3 |
| | Garo National Council (GNC) | 17,650 | 2.11 | | 1 | |
| | Hindu Samaj Party (HSP) | 4,754 | 0.57 | | 0 | |
| | Communist Party of India (CPI) | 1,387 | 0.17 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 1,253 | 0.15 | | 0 | |
| | Samajwadi Party | 742 | 0.09 | | 0 | |
| | Janata Dal | 38 | 0.0 | | 0 | |
| | Independents (IND) | 135,356 | 17.28 | 1.12 | 5 | 5 |
| Total | Total | 837,383 | 100.00 | | 60 | ±0 |
| Source: Election Commission of India |||||||
$^a$ The UDP was formed in 1997 through a merger of the Hill People's Union (HPU), some members of the Hill State People's Democratic Party (HDP) and the Public Demands Implementation Convention (PDIC). Previous results presented in the table are the combined totals of parties' results from the 1993 election.

### Mizoram

| | Mizo National Front | 84,444 | 24.99 | 21 | 7 |
| | Mizoram People's Conference | 69,078 | 20.44 | 12 | New |
| | Indian National Congress | 100,608 | 29.77 | 6 | 10 |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 8,448 | 2.50 | 0 | 0 |
| | Janata Dal | 947 | 0.28 | 0 | New |
| | Samata Party | 940 | 0.28 | 0 | New |
| | Lok Shakti | 774 | 0.23 | 0 | New |
| | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 588 | 0.17 | 0 | New |
| | Maraland Democratic Front | 7,721 | 2.28 | 0 | New |
| | Mizo National Front (Nationalist) | 31,190 | 9.23 | 0 | New |
| | Independents | 33,200 | 9.82 | 1 | 9 |
| Total | Total | 337,938 | 100.00 | 40 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 337,938 | 99.44 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 1,913 | 0.56 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 339,851 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 445,366 | 76.31 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

### Nagaland

| | Indian National Congress | 103,206 | 50.73 | 53 | +18 |
| | Independents | 100,226 | 49.27 | 7 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 203,432 | 100.00 | 60 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 203,432 | 98.86 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 2,356 | 1.14 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 205,788 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 260,646 | 78.95 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

### Rajasthan

| Party | Party | Seats | +/– |
| | Indian National Congress | 153 | 77 |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 33 | 62 |
| | Janata Dal | 3 | 3 |
| | Bahujan Samaj Party | 2 | 2 |
| | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 1 | New |
| | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 0 |
| | Independents | 7 | 14 |
| Total | Total | 200 | +1 |

### Tripura

Source:
Performance of the political parties in this election :
| Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | No. of Votes | % of Votes | 1993 Seats |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 60 | 0 | 80,272 | 5.87% | 0 |
| Communist Party of India | 2 | 1 | 18,802 | 1.38% | 0 |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 55 | 38 | 621,804 | 45.49% | 44 |
| Indian National Congress | 45 | 13 | 464,171 | 33.96% | 10 |
| Janata Dal | 3 | 0 | 3,294 | 0.24% | 1 |
| Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti | 10 | 4 | 98,271 | 7.19% | 1 |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | 2 | 22,526 | 1.65% | 2 |
| Independents | 60 | 2 | 44,940 | 3.29% | 1 |
| Total | 270 | 60 | 1,366,966 | | |