Party
Samyukta Socialist Party
SSPSocialist1964–1972
- Also seen as
- samyukta socialist party
- Split from
- PSP(1964)
About SSP
Split from the Praja Socialist Party in 1964 under Ram Manohar Lohia, taking a harder anti-Congress socialist line. Like the PSP, it never won a state on its own but was a coalition partner in several state governments formed after the 1967 elections. It reunified with the PSP in 1971.
- Key leaders
- Ram Manohar Lohia — leading figure behind the 1964 split from the PSP
Source: Samyukta Socialist Party — Wikipedia. Real-world political history, hand-researched and cited — not a figure computed from results.
Elections
54
in the dataset
Seats won
396
all-time
Best result
68
BR Assembly 1967
Lok Sabha / Assembly
8 / 46
Election record
Every election where SSP polled votes. Seats and shares are computed from the constituency results — tap an election to open it.
54 elections
| BR Assembly | 2025 | 0 | 3,220 | 0.0% | 4 | #59 |
| HR Assembly | 2024 | 0 | 1,170 | 0.0% | 1 | #26 |
| Lok Sabha | 2024 | 0 | 75,204 | 0.0% | 24 | #96 |
| JK Assembly | 2024 | 0 | 348 | 0.0% | 2 | #39 |
| MH Assembly | 2024 | 0 | 6,785 | 0.0% | 8 | #39 |
| GJ Assembly | 2022 | 0 | 163 | 0.0% | 1 | #61 |
| HP Assembly | 2022 | 0 | 195 | 0.0% | 1 | #13 |
| PB Assembly | 2022 | 0 | 21,013 | 0.1% | 18 | #12 |
| UP Assembly | 2022 | 0 | 7,322 | 0.0% | 13 | #45 |
| UK Assembly | 2022 | 0 | 240 | 0.0% | 2 | #34 |
| WB Assembly | 2021 | 0 | 409 | 0.0% | 1 | #54 |
| Lok Sabha | 2004 | 0 | 3,216 | 0.0% | 1 | #155 |
| SK Assembly | 2004 | 0 | 90 | 0.0% | 1 | #7 |
| Lok Sabha | 1999 | 0 | 86,466 | 0.0% | 1 | #64 |
| SK Assembly | 1999 | 7 | 85,827 | 41.9% | 32 | #2 |
| Lok Sabha | 1996 | 0 | 42,175 | 0.0% | 1 | #66 |
| MH Assembly | 1995 | 0 | 1,169 | 0.0% | 3 | #32 |
| OD Assembly | 1995 | 0 | 945 | 0.0% | 1 | #21 |
| AP Assembly | 1994 | 0 | 455 | 0.0% | 1 | #26 |
| SK Assembly | 1994 | 10 | 60,851 | 35.1% | 31 | #2 |
| RJ Assembly | 1993 | 0 | 494 | 0.0% | 3 | #22 |
| UP Assembly | 1993 | 0 | 996 | 0.0% | 4 | #41 |
| Lok Sabha | 1991 | 1 | 1,06,247 | 0.0% | 2 | #25 |
| AP Assembly | 1989 | 0 | 418 | 0.0% | 1 | #18 |
| Lok Sabha | 1989 | 1 | 91,608 | 0.0% | 1 | #25 |
| SK Assembly | 1989 | 32 | 94,078 | 70.4% | 32 | #1 |
| SK Assembly | 1985 | 30 | 60,371 | 62.2% | 32 | #1 |
| Lok Sabha | 1971 | 3 | 35,55,639 | 2.4% | 93 | #10 |
| WB Assembly | 1971 | 0 | 69,567 | 0.5% | 24 | #18 |
| BR Assembly | 1969 | 52 | 20,52,274 | 13.7% | 191 | #2 |
| PB Assembly | 1969 | 2 | 39,109 | 0.8% | 7 | #7 |
| UP Assembly | 1969 | 33 | 18,31,345 | 7.8% | 258 | #4 |
| WB Assembly | 1969 | 9 | 2,49,362 | 1.9% | 15 | #8 |
| HR Assembly | 1968 | 0 | 23,936 | 0.9% | 7 | #8 |
| AP Assembly | 1967 | 1 | 49,669 | 0.4% | 8 | #7 |
| AS Assembly | 1967 | 4 | 1,01,802 | 3.3% | 17 | #6 |
| BR Assembly | 1967 | 68 | 23,85,961 | 17.6% | 199 | #2 |
| GJ Assembly | 1967 | 0 | 23,380 | 0.4% | 14 | #6 |
| HR Assembly | 1967 | 0 | 1,08,172 | 3.6% | 23 | #6 |
| HP Assembly | 1967 | 0 | 679 | 0.1% | 1 | #8 |
| Lok Sabha | 1967 | 23 | 71,71,627 | 4.9% | 122 | #7 |
| KA Assembly | 1967 | 6 | 1,85,222 | 2.5% | 17 | #5 |
| KL Assembly | 1967 | 19 | 5,27,662 | 8.4% | 21 | #3 |
| MP Assembly | 1967 | 10 | 4,81,080 | 5.3% | 114 | #4 |
| MH Assembly | 1967 | 4 | 6,16,466 | 4.6% | 48 | #8 |
| MN Assembly | 1967 | 4 | 36,520 | 11.7% | 12 | #3 |
| OD Assembly | 1967 | 2 | 61,426 | 1.5% | 9 | #7 |
| PB Assembly | 1967 | 1 | 30,591 | 0.7% | 8 | #9 |
| RJ Assembly | 1967 | 8 | 3,21,574 | 4.8% | 38 | #5 |
| TN Assembly | 1967 | 2 | 84,188 | 0.5% | 3 | #8 |
| TR Assembly | 1967 | 0 | 83 | 0.0% | 1 | #6 |
| UP Assembly | 1967 | 44 | 21,40,924 | 10.0% | 254 | #3 |
| WB Assembly | 1967 | 7 | 2,69,234 | 2.1% | 26 | #7 |
| KL Assembly | 1965 | 13 | 5,14,689 | 8.1% | 29 | #4 |
Peak: 68 seats at the Bihar Assembly Election, 1967.