Lok Dal
LKDAbout Lok Dal
Founded on 26 September 1979 by Charan Singh, renaming and merging his Janata Party (Secular) with the Socialist Party and Orissa Janata Party after his brief, unconfirmed premiership collapsed. Lok Dal won 41 Lok Sabha seats in the 1980 general election as the main opposition to Indira Gandhi's returning Congress, and remained a significant north Indian farmers'-interest party through the 1980s before merging into the newly formed Janata Dal in October 1988.
- Key leaders
- Chaudhary Charan Singh — founder; Prime Minister of India, 1979–1980
Source: Lokdal — Wikipedia. Real-world political history, hand-researched and cited — not a figure computed from results.
Election record
Every election where LKD polled votes. Seats and shares are computed from the constituency results — tap an election to open it.
| BR Assembly | 1995 | 0 | 859 | 0.0% | 5 | #44 |
| GJ Assembly | 1995 | 0 | 469 | 0.0% | 2 | #24 |
| DL Assembly | 1993 | 0 | 1,760 | 0.0% | 7 | #15 |
| MP Assembly | 1993 | 0 | 1,267 | 0.0% | 9 | #27 |
| RJ Assembly | 1993 | 0 | 75 | 0.0% | 1 | #27 |
| UP Assembly | 1993 | 0 | 17,025 | 0.0% | 57 | #19 |
| PB Assembly | 1992 | 0 | 217 | 0.0% | 1 | #12 |
| AS Assembly | 1991 | 0 | 1,036 | 0.0% | 4 | #25 |
| HR Assembly | 1991 | 0 | 5,585 | 0.1% | 6 | #13 |
| Lok Sabha | 1991 | 0 | 1,73,884 | 0.1% | 78 | #37 |
| KL Assembly | 1991 | 0 | 1,354 | 0.0% | 4 | #17 |
| TN Assembly | 1991 | 0 | 206 | 0.0% | 1 | #25 |
| UP Assembly | 1991 | 0 | 1,30,929 | 0.3% | 107 | #12 |
| WB Assembly | 1991 | 0 | 121 | 0.0% | 1 | #35 |
| TN Assembly | 1989 | 0 | 257 | 0.0% | 1 | #17 |
| HR Assembly | 1987 | 60 | 23,49,397 | 38.6% | 69 | #1 |
| JK Assembly | 1987 | 0 | 13,937 | 0.5% | 10 | #7 |
| KL Assembly | 1987 | 1 | 78,389 | 0.6% | 2 | #10 |
| WB Assembly | 1987 | 0 | 10,032 | 0.0% | 18 | #11 |
| AP Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 15,032 | 0.1% | 15 | #8 |
| AS Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 16,807 | 0.2% | 19 | #9 |
| BR Assembly | 1985 | 46 | 35,73,173 | 14.7% | 261 | #2 |
| HP Assembly | 1985 | 1 | 23,555 | 1.4% | 3 | #4 |
| KA Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 53,894 | 0.4% | 32 | #7 |
| MP Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 1,51,115 | 1.1% | 78 | #7 |
| MH Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 35,392 | 0.2% | 36 | #11 |
| OD Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 29,782 | 0.4% | 18 | #7 |
| PY Assembly | 1985 | 0 | 266 | 0.1% | 3 | #11 |
| RJ Assembly | 1985 | 27 | 13,60,826 | 11.9% | 60 | #3 |
| UP Assembly | 1985 | 84 | 63,04,455 | 21.4% | 385 | #2 |
| Lok Sabha | 1984 | 3 | 1,40,40,064 | 6.0% | 171 | #9 |
| MN Assembly | 1984 | 0 | 3,653 | 0.4% | 2 | #9 |
| AP Assembly | 1983 | 0 | 1,93,880 | 0.9% | 33 | #9 |
| JK Assembly | 1983 | 0 | 3,217 | 0.1% | 7 | #9 |
| KA Assembly | 1983 | 0 | 68,348 | 0.5% | 26 | #8 |
| HR Assembly | 1982 | 31 | 11,72,149 | 23.9% | 65 | #2 |
| HP Assembly | 1982 | 0 | 22,521 | 1.5% | 30 | #6 |
| WB Assembly | 1982 | 0 | 22,361 | 0.1% | 16 | #12 |
| BR Assembly | 1980 | 0 | 6,744 | 0.0% | 2 | #15 |
| UP Assembly | 1980 | 0 | 69,086 | 0.3% | 4 | #11 |
| WB Assembly | 1969 | 0 | 1,39,575 | 1.0% | 58 | #18 |
Peak: 84 seats at the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1985.