- 14 national parties
- 39 state parties + Independents
- For 489 seats or 401 PCs
- With 17.32 crore electors
- Voted – 10.59 crore – 44.87%
- State with maximum poll% – Travancore Cochin – 71%
- State with minimum poll% – Himachal Pradesh – 25.32%
- States with over a crore electors – 6
- Uttar Pradesh – state with most electors – 3.18 crore
- Uttar Pradesh – poll% – 38.41%
- Madras (2.7 crore)/Bihar (1.81 crore)/Bombay (1.68 crore)/WB (1.25 crore)/MP (1.11 crore)
- Total candidates – 1874
- Total forfeiture of deposits – 745 (39.75%)
