Indian National Congress (Organisation)
NCOAbout Congress (O)
The 'old guard' Syndicate faction that split from Indira Gandhi's Congress in 1969 after her expulsion from the party organisation. Led state governments in Karnataka, Gujarat and Bihar through the early-to-mid 1970s. Merged into the Janata Party in 1977 alongside the Bharatiya Lok Dal and Bharatiya Jana Sangh — Morarji Desai became independent India's first non-Congress Prime Minister as the merged party's leader.
- Key leaders
- K. Kamaraj — leader of the Syndicate faction behind the split
- Morarji Desai — later leader; Prime Minister of India, 1977–1979, as the merged Janata Party's leader
Source: Indian National Congress (Organisation) — Wikipedia. Real-world political history, hand-researched and cited — not a figure computed from results.
Election record
Every election where NCO polled votes. Seats and shares are computed from the constituency results — tap an election to open it.
| Lok Sabha | 1977 | 3 | 32,52,217 | 1.7% | 19 | #10 |
| GJ Assembly | 1975 | 56 | 19,01,751 | 23.6% | 101 | #2 |
| MN Assembly | 1974 | 0 | 8,764 | 1.5% | 14 | #8 |
| OD Assembly | 1974 | 0 | 29,103 | 0.5% | 17 | #10 |
| PY Assembly | 1974 | 5 | 41,348 | 18.9% | 16 | #3 |
| UP Assembly | 1974 | 10 | 22,96,883 | 8.4% | 388 | #5 |
| AP Assembly | 1972 | 0 | 45,303 | 0.3% | 11 | #8 |
| AS Assembly | 1972 | 0 | 17,367 | 0.5% | 14 | #8 |
| BR Assembly | 1972 | 30 | 25,44,841 | 14.8% | 272 | #4 |
| GJ Assembly | 1972 | 16 | 16,26,736 | 23.5% | 138 | #2 |
| HR Assembly | 1972 | 12 | 3,77,427 | 10.8% | 24 | #2 |
| HP Assembly | 1972 | 0 | 18,505 | 2.1% | 18 | #7 |
| KA Assembly | 1972 | 24 | 23,61,308 | 26.2% | 176 | #2 |
| MP Assembly | 1972 | 0 | 32,126 | 0.3% | 23 | #7 |
| MH Assembly | 1972 | 0 | 1,62,433 | 1.1% | 49 | #14 |
| MN Assembly | 1972 | 1 | 10,699 | 2.4% | 10 | #6 |
| PB Assembly | 1972 | 0 | 11,659 | 0.2% | 8 | #9 |
| RJ Assembly | 1972 | 1 | 1,04,398 | 1.3% | 37 | #7 |
| WB Assembly | 1972 | 2 | 1,96,044 | 1.5% | 64 | #6 |
| Lok Sabha | 1971 | 16 | 1,52,85,851 | 10.4% | 238 | #6 |
| OD Assembly | 1971 | 1 | 79,460 | 1.8% | 50 | #10 |
| TN Assembly | 1971 | 15 | 55,13,894 | 35.0% | 201 | #2 |
| WB Assembly | 1971 | 2 | 7,23,229 | 5.6% | 219 | #11 |
| KL Assembly | 1970 | 0 | 2,36,454 | 3.1% | 36 | #12 |
Peak: 56 seats at the Gujarat Assembly Election, 1975.