Madhya Pradesh: Assembly Results 1977-1998
| 1977 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1993 | 1998 | |
| Electorate (lakhs) | 166.3 | 185.4 | 213.1 | 274.4 | 294.2 | 329 |
| Turnout (%) | 52.8 | 48.6 | 50.1 | 54.3 | 60.9 | 60.2 |
| Seats | 230 | 230 | 230 | 230 | 230 | 230 |
| Candidates | 1431 | 1534 | 1780 | 3053 | 2598 | 1781 |
| Indian National Congress (INC), | 49(230) | 169(230) | 176(230) | ` | 121(229) | 124(227) |
| (INCI) in 1980 | 34.6% | 45.6% | 48.0% | 32.8% | 40.9% | 40.6% |
| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | - | 54(224) | 45(226) | 169(204) | 87(230) | 83(230) |
| 32.7% | 34.2% | 41.6% | 40.0% | 39.0% | ||
| Communist Party of India (CPI) | 0(39) | 1(31) | 0(52) | 1(43) | 0(35) | 0(14) |
| 1.1% | 1.4% | 1.9% | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |
| Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) | 0(5) | 0(4) | 0(8) | 0(4) | 1(13) | 0(6) |
| 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |
| Janata Dal (JD), | - | 1(159) | - | 19(81) | 4(189) | 1(112) |
| (JPSC) in 1980 | 5.3% | 7.0% | 4.2% | 2.3% | ||
| Janata Party (JP) | 177(230) | 1(103) | 5(122) | 0(64) | - | 1(14) |
| 49.1% | 3.3% | 4.4% | 0.2% | 0.3% | ||
| Samajwadi Party (SP) | - | - | - | - | 0(90) | 4(87) |
| 0.6% | 2.1% | |||||
| Ajay Bharat Party (ABP), | - | - | - | - | 1(4) | 1(67) |
| (RPKM) in 1993 | 0.1% | 0.7% | ||||
| Indian Congress Socialist (ICSS) | 1(21) | 0(15) | 0(7) | 0(1) | ||
| 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) | - | - | - | 1(130) | 10(198) | 8(121) |
| 3.6% | 6.8% | 6.3% | ||||
| Krantikari Samajwadi Manch (KSM) | - | - | - | 1(20) | 1(5) | - |
| 0.6% | 0.3% | |||||
| Republican Party of India (RPI) | - | - | - | 0(6) | 0(2) | 1(11) |
| 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||
| Republican Party of India Khobragade (RPK) | - | 1(11) | - | 0(10) | - | 0(2) |
| 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.0% | ||||
| Others | 0(8) | 0(104) | 0(66) | 0(301) | 0(351) | 0(259) |
| 0.1% | 2.1% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.8% | |
| Independents (IND) | 4(919) | 3(668) | 3(1055) | 6(1946) | 5(1245) | 7(630) |
| 15.0% | 9.0% | 9.7% | 11.4% | 5.0% | 6.1% | |
| (ICSS) also refers to ICS. Figures in brackets show seats contested. | ||||||
| (JPSC) Janata Party Secular Charan Singh, (RPKM) Republican Party of India Kamble. | ||||||
