Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, 1977

Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections, 1977

17 June 1977

all 76 seats in Legislative Assembly 39 seats needed for a majority Turnout 60.5%   First party Second party   Leader Sheikh Abdullah Party JKN INC Last election - 58 Seats won 47 11 Seat change 47 46   Third party Fourth party   Party Janata Party Jamait-I-Islami Last election - Seats won 13 1 Seat change 13 2

Chief Minister before election Sheikh Abdullah JKN Elected Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah JKN

Elections for the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir were held over June 1977.^[1] National Conference fought assembly elections for first time in Jammu and Kashmir after 1967.^[2][3] Earlier, Sheikh Abdullah was imprisioned in 1953. This elections were held after 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord,before which only puppet governments ruled the State.^[4] Braj Kumar Nehru, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (1981–84),later admitted that the chief ministers from 1953 to 1975 were ‘nominees of Delhi’, whose appointments were legitimised by holding of farcical and totally rigged elections in Jammu and Kashmir till 1975.^[4]

The National Conference won an overwhelming majority in the subsequent elections and re-elected Sheikh Abdullah as Chief Minister.^[5]

References

1. 1977 J&K elections
2. http://www.elections.in/jammu-and-kashmir/assembly-constituencies/1967-election-results.html 1967 J&K elections]
3. 1962 J&K assembly elections
4. Sameer Arshad. "History of electoral fraud has lessons for BJP in J&K". Times of India. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
5. Statistical report J&K 1977