Elections in the Republic of India in 1983 included elections to six state legislative assemblies and to seats in the Rajya Sabha.
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Contested<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats Won<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change<br> |- | |align="left"|Janata Party||193||95||4,272,318||33.07%|| 36 |- | |align="left"|Indian National Congress||221||82||5,221,419||40.42%|| 67 |- | |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||110||18||1,024,892||7.93%|| 18 |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India||7||3||161,192||1.25%|| |- | |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||4||3||115,320||0.89%|| 3 |- | |align="left"|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam||1||1||16,234||0.13%|| 1 |- | |align="left"|Independents||751||22||1,998,256||15.47%|| 12 |- | |align="left"|Total||1365||224||12,919,459|||| |-
<small>In the 1978 election, two candidates from the PDIC were elected, but the party had not obtained registration in time for the election; at that time, the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official results.</small>
<small>Does not include the two PDIC candidates elected as independents in 1978.</small>
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes<br> !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes<br> |- | |align="left"|Indian National Congress||56||34||856,055||47.50% |- | |align="left"|Bharatiya Janata Party||50||19||666,605||36.99% |- | |align="left"|Lok Dal||6||2||73,765||4.09% |- | |align="left"|Janata Party||37||1||65,980||3.66% |- | ! Total !! 400 !! 56 !! 1,802,118 !! |-