2019 Indian general election explained

Country:India
Type:Parliamentary
Previous Election:2014 Indian general election
Previous Year:2014
Election Date:11 April – 19 May 2019
Next Election:2024 Indian general election
Next Year:2024
Outgoing Members:List of members of the 16th Lok Sabha
Elected Members:List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha
Seats For Election:543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha
Majority Seats:272
Registered:911,950,734
Turnout:67.40% (0.96pp)
Opinion Polls:Opinion polling for the 2019 Indian general election
1Blank:Alliance
2Blank:Alliance seats
Leader1:Narendra Modi
Party1:Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance1:National Democratic Alliance
Last Election1:31.00%, 282 seats
Seats1:303
Seat Change1: 21
Popular Vote1:229,076,879
Percentage1:37.36%
Swing1: 6.36pp
Leader2:Rahul Gandhi
Party2:Indian National Congress
Alliance2:United Progressive Alliance
Last Election2:19.31%, 44 seats
Seats2:52
Seat Change2: 8
Popular Vote2:119,495,214
Percentage2:19.49%
Swing2: 0.18pp
Prime Minister
Before Election:Narendra Modi
Before Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
Posttitle:Prime Minister after election
After Election:Narendra Modi
After Party:Bharatiya Janata Party
2Data1:353
2Data2:91
3Blank:Seat change
3Data1:17
3Data2:32
4Blank:Alliance percentage
4Data1:45.3%
4Data2:27.5%

General elections were held in India in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to elect the members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 23 May.[1] [2] [3] [4] Around 912 million people were eligible to vote, and voter turnout was over 67 per cent – the highest ever, as well as the highest ever participation by women voters until 2024 Indian general election.[5] [6] [7]

The Bharatiya Janata Party received 37% of the vote, the highest vote share by a political party since the 1989 general election, and won 303 seats, further increasing its substantial majority.[8] In addition, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 353 seats.[9] The BJP won 37.76%[10] of votes, while the NDA's combined vote was 45% of the 603.7 million votes that were polled.[11] [12] The Indian National Congress won 52 seats, failing to get 10% of the seats needed to claim the post of Leader of the Opposition.[13] In addition, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won 91 seats, while other parties won 98 seats.[14]

Legislative assembly elections in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim were held simultaneously with the general election,[15] [16] as well as by-elections of twenty-two seats of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.[17]

Electoral system

All 543 elected MPs are elected from single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting. The President of India appoints an additional two members from the Anglo-Indian community if he believes that community is under-represented.[18]

Eligible voters must be Indian citizens, 18 or older, an ordinary resident of the polling area of the constituency and registered to vote (name included in the electoral rolls), possess a valid voter identification card issued by the Election Commission of India or an equivalent.[19] Some people convicted of electoral or other offences are barred from voting.[20]

The elections are held on schedule and as per the Constitution of India that mandates parliamentary elections once every five years.[21]

Election schedule

The election schedule was announced by Election Commission of India (ECI) on 10 March 2019, and with it the Model Code of Conduct came into effect.[22] [23]

The election was scheduled to be held in seven phases. In Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, the election was held in all seven phases. The polling for the Anantnag constituency in the state of Jammu and Kashmir was held in three phases, due to violence in the region.[24] [25]

State/Union territory! rowspan="3"
TotalconstituenciesElection dates and number of constituencies
Phase 1Phase 2Phase 3Phase 4Phase 5Phase 6Phase 7
11 April18 April23 April29 April6 May12 May19 May
Andhra Pradesh2525
Arunachal Pradesh22
Assam14554
Bihar404555588
Chhattisgarh11137
Goa22
Gujarat2626
Haryana1010
Himachal Pradesh44
Jammu and Kashmir622[26] 1
Jharkhand143443
Karnataka281414
Kerala2020
Madhya Pradesh296788
Maharashtra487101417
Manipur211
Meghalaya22
Mizoram11
Nagaland11
Odisha214566
Punjab1313
Rajasthan251312
Sikkim11
Tamil Nadu3938[27]
Telangana1717
Tripura211[28]
Uttar Pradesh80881013141413
Uttarakhand55
West Bengal422358789
Andaman and Nicobar Islands11
Chandigarh11
Dadra and Nagar Haveli11
Daman and Diu11
Delhi77
Lakshadweep11
Puducherry11
Constituencies543919511671505959
Total constituencies by end of phase54291186302373424483542
% complete by end of phase17%34%56%69%78%89%100%
Result54323 May 2019
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  26. Polling in Anantnag was scheduled over three days.
  27. Polling in Vellore was cancelled, with the election later held on 5 August 2019. (see below)
  28. Polling in Tripura East was rescheduled from 18 to 23 April.

Rescheduled voting, cancellations

Campaign

Issues

Allegations of undermining institutions

The opposition parties accused the NDA government of destroying democratic institutions and processes.[33] Modi denied these allegations, and blamed Congress and the communists for undermining institutions including the police, the CBI, and the CAG, and cited the murder of BJP activists in Kerala and Madhya Pradesh.[34] The Congress party, along with other opposition parties and a group of retired civil servants, accused the ECI of being compromised, and implied that they endorsed the model code of conduct violations by Narendra Modi and other BJP political leaders during their campaigns.[35] Another group of 81 retired civil servants, judges and academics disputed these allegations, made counter-allegations, and stated that the ECI acted fairly and similarly in alleged violations by either side. The group stated that such political attacks on the ECI were a "deliberate attempt to denigrate and delegitimise the democratic institutions".[36]

Economic performance

According to The Times of India, the major economic achievements of the incumbent NDA government included an inflation rate less than 4 per cent, the GST reform, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. Its programs, in recent years, that have positively touched many among the Indian masses, include the Jan Dhan Yojana, rural cooking gas and electricity for homes.[37] According to the IMF, the Indian economy has been growing in recent years, its GDP growth rate is among the highest in the world for major economies, and India is expected to be the fastest growing major economy in 2019–2020 and 2020–2021, with real GDP projected to grow at 7.3 per cent.[38] [39] [40] The GDP growth data has been disputed by a group of Indian social scientists, economists and the political opposition's election campaign, while a group of Indian chartered accountants has defended the data, the GDP calculation methodology, and questioned the motivations of those disputing the recent Indian GDP statistics.[41]

The opposition's election campaign has claimed that both the demonetisation and GST law have "seriously hit small business, farmers and casual labour", states The Times of India.[42] The incumbent has claimed that they inherited a country from the previous Congress-led government that was "a legacy of policy paralysis, corruption and economic fragility", and that the BJP-led government policies have placed India on better economic fundamentals and a fast gear.[43] Modi claims that his government pursued demonetisation in the national interest, his government has identified and de-registered 338,000 shell companies, identified and recovered in black money since 2014, and almost doubled India's tax base.[44] [45] The Congress party disputes the incumbents' claims, and has alleged that BJP offices have "become hubs of creating black money", and seeks a judicial inquiry into the Rafale deal with France and BJP's role in corruption.[46]

National security and terrorism

In response to the 2019 Pulwama attack, the Indian Air Force conducted airstrikes inside Pakistan — for the first time since the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The ongoing conflict with Pakistan became a significant factor in the election. The opposition parties accused of politicising the army, whilst the BJP countered their accusations by stating that such allegations raised by them were adversely affecting the morale of armed forces.[47]

According to the Pew Research Center, both before and after the outbreak of recent India-Pakistan tensions, their 2018 and 2019 surveys suggest that the significant majority of the voters consider Pakistan as a "very serious threat" to their country, and terrorism to be a "very big problem".[48] [49]

Unemployment

See main article: Unemployment in India. According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Indian voters consider the lack of employment opportunities as a "very big problem" in their country. "About 18.6 million Indians were jobless and another 393.7 million work in poor-quality jobs vulnerable to displacement", stated the Pew report.

A report on unemployment prepared by the National Sample Survey Office's (NSSO's) periodic labour force survey, has not been officially released by the government. According to Business Today, this report is the "first comprehensive survey on employment conducted by a government agency after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation move in November 2016". According to this report, the 2017–2018 "usual status" unemployment rate in India is 6.1 per cent, which is a four-decade high.[50] The government has claimed that the report was not final.[51] According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) – a United Nations agency, unemployment is rising in India and the "unemployment rate in the country [India] will stand at 3.5 percent in 2018 and 2019 – the same level of unemployment seen in 2017 and 2016", instead of dropping to 3.4 per cent as it had previously projected.[52] According to the ILO's World Employment Social Outlook Report, the unemployment rate in India has been in the 3.4 to 3.6 per cent range over the UPA-government led 2009–2014 and the NDA-government led 2014–2019 periods.

Opposition parties claimed in their election campaign that the unemployment in India had reached crisis levels. The NDA government has denied the existence of any job crisis.[53] Prime minister Narendra Modi claimed that jobs are not lacking but the accurate data on jobs has been lacking.[54] [55]

The opposition has attacked the NDA government's performance with the NSSO reported 6.1 per cent unemployment data. Modi and his government have questioned this job statistics report, stating that "most surveys that try to capture unemployment rate are skewed since these did not cover the unorganised sector, which accounts for 85–90 per cent of jobs [in India]".[56]

Agrarian and rural distress

The Congress party campaign highlighted "agrarian distress" as an election issue.[57] The BJP campaign highlighted that the Congress party had been in power for five generations of the Nehru dynasty and its past promises and campaign issues have been empty. It claimed that the recent farmer loan waivers by Congress have not reached "even 10% of the farmers" nor has it helped the financial situation of the farmers. BJP highlights that its "Kisan Samman Nidhi" helps the small farmers at the time of seed planting through a direct deposit of ₹6000 to their accounts.[58] The opposition accused this as being an attempt to lure voters.[59]

According to The Times of India, a group of farmer associations demanded that the 2019 election manifesto of competing political parties should promise to "keep agriculture out of the World Trade Organization (WTO)" and that the interests of Indian farmers must not be compromised in global trade treaties.[60] They also demanded loan waivers and income support for the agriculture sector. According to the Business Standard and the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, India has witnessed record crop harvests in recent years including 2017 when its farmers grew more foodgrains than ever before.[61] [62] However, the farmers consider the "low remunerative prices" they receive in the free market to be too low and a need for the Indian government to establish higher minimum support prices for agricultural products. These farmers consider this an issue for the 2019 general elections.

Dynasty politics

The BJP highlighted that the Congress party has relied on Rahul Gandhi for leadership since 2013, its lack of internal party institutions and claimed that whenever Congress has been in power, the freedom of press and Indian government institutions have "taken a severe beating".[63] [64] During the election campaign, its leaders mentioned the Emergency of 1975, the nepotism, corruption and widespread abuses of human rights under the Congress rule in the past.[65] [66] Congress-led alliance leader H. D. Kumaraswamy – the son of a former prime minister of India and the former chief minister of Karnataka, countered that "India developed because of dynasty politics", stating that "dynasty politics are not the main issue, rather country's problems are".[67] The Congress alleged hypocrisy by the BJP, claiming that the BJP itself forms alliances with dynasty-based parties such as the Akali Dal in Punjab, and that family relatives of senior BJP leaders such as Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley have been in politics too.[68]

According to an IndiaSpend report published by the BloombergQuint, the smaller and regional parties such as the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, Lok Jan Sakti Party, Shiromani Akali Dal, Biju Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party have higher densities of dynasty-derived candidates and elected representatives in recent years.[69] [70] While both the Congress and the BJP have also nominated candidates from political dynasties, states the report, the difference between them is that in Congress "top party leadership has been handed down from generation to generation within the same [Nehru Gandhi dynasty] family", while there has been a historic non-dynastic diversity in the top leadership within the BJP. According to the report, while BJP has also nominated candidates from political dynasties, its better public relations operation "can leap to its defence when attacked on the same grounds". In contrast to the IndiaSpend report, analysis of Kanchan Chandra, a prominent professor of Politics, of the 2004, 2009 and 2014 general elections included a finding that the Congress party has had about twice or more dynastic parliamentarians than the BJP at those elections, and higher than all major political parties in India except the Samajwadi Party.[71] Many of these dynastic politicians in India who inherit the leadership positions have never held any jobs and lack state or local experience, states Anjali Bohlken – a professor and political science scholar, and this raises concerns of rampant nepotism and appointments of their own friends, relatives and cronies if elected.[72] The BJP targeted the Congress party in the 2019 elections for alleged nepotism and a family dynasty for leadership.

Campaign controversies

Income tax raids

In April 2019, raids conducted by the Income Tax Department found bundles of unaccounted for cash amounting to, along with liquor and documentary evidence in premises of people with close connections to Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath of the Congress. Modi has highlighted this evidence to attack the Congress in its election campaign, alleging corruption is part of Congress party's culture.[73] [74]

Social media abuses and fake news

According to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the election attracted a systematic attempt to spread misinformation through social media.[75] [76] Facebook said that over a hundred of these advocacy accounts spreading disinformation were traced to "employees of the Pakistani military public relations wing".[75] [76] Some others have been linked to the INC and BJP.[75] [76]

Political parties spent over with the largest spending by BJP on digital platforms for online ads. The BJP placed 2,500 ads on Facebook while the Congress placed 3,686 ads.[77] According to a study by Vidya Narayanan and colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute, social media was used by all the major parties and alliances, and all of them linked or posted divisive and conspiratorial content and images. According to Narayanan, "a third of the BJP's images, a quarter of the INC's images, and a tenth the SP-BSP's images were catalogued as divisive and conspiratorial".[78] [79] The Narayanan et al. study added that "we observed very limited amounts of hate speech, gore or pornography in either platform samples" by BJP, Congress or SP-BSP, but the election did include proportionally more polarising information on social media than other countries except for the US presidential election in 2016.[79]

About 50,000 fake news stories were published during the recent Lok Sabha elections and shared 2 million times, according to a study conducted by fact-checking startup Logically.[80]

In September 2019, the BBC launched the Trusted News Initiative to help combat election-related disinformation, citing the 2019 general elections as a motivating factor.[81]

EC actions under Article 324

Election Commission curtailed West Bengal campaigning by one day, after a bust of 19th century Bengali icon Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was vandalised during 7th phase poll violence.[82]

Party campaigns

See main article: Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2019 Indian general election and Indian National Congress campaign for the 2019 Indian general election.

Party manifestos

Highlights of the Congress manifesto

The Congress released its manifesto, titled Congress Will Deliver on 3 April.[90] [91] Some of its highlights:[92] [93]

Highlights of the BJP manifesto

The BJP released its manifesto sub-titled Sankalpit Bharat, Sashakt Bharat (lit. "Resolute India, Empowered India") on 8 April.[94] [95] Some of its highlights:[96]

Other parties

Other national and regional parties released their manifestos too:

Campaign finance

Several organisations offered varying estimates for the cost of the election campaign. The Centre for Media Studies in New Delhi estimated that the election campaign could exceed $7 billion.[111] According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an election watchdog, in the financial year 2017–18 BJP received, about 12 times more donations than Congress and five other national parties combined.

The electoral bonds in denominations ranging from 1,000 rupees to 10 million rupees ($14 to $140,000) can be purchased and donated to a political party. The bonds don't carry the name of the donor and are exempt from tax.[112] Factly – an India data journalism portal, traced the electoral bond donations for 2018 under India's Right to Information Act. According to Factly, electoral bonds worth about were purchased and donated in 2018. According to Bloomberg, this accounted for 31.2 per cent of political donations in 2018, while 51.4 per cent of the total donated amount were each below and these too were from unknown donors. About 47 per cent of the donations to political parties were from known sources. Between 1 January and 31 March 2019, donors bought worth of electoral bonds and donated.[113] The spending in elections boosts national GDP, and the 2009 election spending contributed about 0.5 per cent to GDP.

According to the Centre for Media Studies, the BJP spent over ₹280 billion (or 45%) of the ₹600 billion spent by all political parties during the polls.[114] Congress questioned the BJP over its poll expenditure.[115]

Parties and alliances

Political alliances

See main article: article, National Democratic Alliance, United Progressive Alliance and Communism in India.

With the exception of 2014, no single party has won the majority of seats in the Lok Sabha since 1984, and therefore, forming alliances is the norm in Indian elections.

There were three main national pre-poll alliances. They are the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) headed by the BJP, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) headed by the INC and the Left Front of the communist leaning parties.

The INC did not form alliances in states where it was in direct contest with the BJP. These states included Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. It formed alliances with regional parties in Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand, and Kerala.[116]

The left parties, most notably the Communist Party of India (Marxist) contested on its own in its strongholds West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, confronting both NDA and UPA. In Tamil Nadu, it was part of the Secular Progressive Alliance led by DMK while it was allied with the Jana Sena Party in Andhra Pradesh.[117]

In January 2019, Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party announced a grand alliance (Mahagathbandhan) to contest 76 out of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh leaving two seats, namely Amethi and Rae Bareli, for INC and another two for other political parties.[118]

Political parties

More than 650 parties contested in these elections. Most of them were small with regional appeal. The main parties were the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). This was the first time that BJP (437) contested more seats than Congress (421) in the Lok Sabha elections.[119] [120]

Candidates

See main article: List of National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2019 Indian general election and List of United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2019 Indian general election.

Altogether 8,039 candidates were in the fray for 542 parliamentary constituencies, i.e., 14.8 candidates per constituency on an average, according to PRS India, an NGO.[121]

About 40% of the candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party had a criminal case against them. The key opposition party Indian National Congress was not far behind with 39% of the candidates having criminal charges while the proportion exceeded 50% for some political parties, according to the Association of Democratic Reforms analysis.[122]

Parties! rowspan="2"
States/UTsSeats contestedSeats won
20192014Swing20192014Swing
Aam Aadmi PartyAndaman & Nicobar Islands135014-3
Bihar30
Chandigarh10
Goa20
Haryana30
NCT OF Delhi70
Odisha10
Punjab131
Uttar Pradesh40
All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU)Jharkhand110+1
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Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress PartyAndhra Pradesh25228+14
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Rashtriya Janata DalBihar19214-4
Jharkhand2
Rashtriya Lok Samta PartyBihar53-3
Sikkim Democratic FrontSikkim11-1
Swabhimani PakshaMaharashtra21-1
Indian National Lok DalHaryana102-2
Aap Aur Hum PartyBihar100
Aam Adhikar MorchaBihar45
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Gujarat1
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Bharatiya Bahujan Parivartan PartyUttar Pradesh1
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Bhartiya Janta Dal (Integrated)NCT OF Delhi1
Bharatiya National Janta DalWest Bengal1
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Chhattisgarh1
Jharkhand1
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Maharashtra1
Uttar Pradesh1
Bhartiya Manvadhikaar Federal Party1
Bhartiya Naujawan Inklav PartyUttar Pradesh1
Bhartiyabahujankranti DalKarnataka25
Maharashtra3
Bharatiya Bahujan PartyChhattisgarh1
Bharat Bhoomi PartyChhattisgarh23
Karnataka1
Bhartiya Dalit PartyBihar3
Bhartiya Hind FaujUttar Pradesh2
Bhartiya Janta DalUttar Pradesh1
Bhartiya Janraj PartyHaryana24
Punjab2
Bahujan Maha PartyAndhra Pradesh120
Gujarat1
Haryana1
Karnataka2
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Maharashtra13
Uttar Pradesh1
Bharat Nirman PartyBihar1
Bhartiya Harit PartyUttar Pradesh1
Bharatiya Peoples PartyKarnataka1
Bharatiya Rashtravadi PakshaGujarat1
Bharatiya Sampuran Krantikari PartyUttar Pradesh1
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Bhartiya Insan PartyBihar13
NCT OF Delhi2
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Bharatiya Jan Kranti Dal (Democratic)Bihar47
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Bhartiya Jan Samman PartyChandigarh12
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Bhartiya Jan Satta PartyRajasthan1
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Bhartiya Kranti Vir PartyBihar1
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Bahujan Nyay DalBihar34
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Bhartiya Navodaya PartyUttar Pradesh1
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Bhartiya New Sanskar Krantikari PartyBihar1
Bhartiya Pragatisheel CongressNCT OF Delhi1
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Bodoland Peoples FrontAssam1
Bharat Prabhat PartyBihar253
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Chhattisgarh1
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NCT OF Delhi2
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Uttar Pradesh16
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Bharatiya Prajagala Kalyana PakshaKarnataka2
Bhapase PartyMaharashtra1
Bharatiya Rashtriya MorchaBihar12
Uttar Pradesh1
Bahujana Raajyam Party (Phule Ambedkar)Telangana1
Bharat Rakshak Party (Democratic)Rajasthan2
Bhartiya Republican Party (Insan)Uttar Pradesh1
Bahujan Republican Socialist PartyGujarat127
Maharashtra26
Bhartiya Rashtrawadi PartyChandigarh1
Bhartiya Shakti Chetna PartyChhattisgarh535
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Bahujan Suraksha DalGujarat1
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Bhartiya Tribal PartyChhattisgarh219
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Bahujan Samaj Party (AMBEDKAR)Chandigarh15
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Bahujan Vikas AaghadiMaharashtra1
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Bhartiya Vanchitsamaj PartyUttar Pradesh1
Corruption Abolition PartyNCT OF Delhi1
Christian Democratic FrontTamil Nadu1
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Chandigarh Ki Aawaz PartyChandigarh1
Communist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Andhra Pradesh218
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Jharkhand2
Odisha2
Puducherry1
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Uttar Pradesh3
Uttarakhand1
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) CPI(M)(L)4
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star4
Communist Party Of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red StarAndhra Pradesh125
Chandigarh2
Jharkhand3
Karnataka2
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Madhya Pradesh1
Maharashtra2
Odisha5
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Uttar Pradesh2
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Chhattisgarh Swabhiman ManchChhattisgarh12
Maharashtra1
Chhattisgarh Vikas Ganga Rashtriya PartyChhattisgarh12
Madhya Pradesh1
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar DalUttar Pradesh1
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Daksha PartyHaryana1
Desiya Murpokku Dravida KazhagamTamil Nadu4
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Dalit Soshit Pichhara Varg Adhikar DalHaryana13
Maharashtra1
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Desiya Uzhavar Uzhaipalar KazhagamTamil Nadu3
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Ekta Samaj PartyNCT OF Delhi1
Ezhuchi Tamilargal Munnetra KazhagamTamil Nadu3
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Fauji Janta PartyUttar Pradesh1
Freethought Party Of IndiaOdisha3
Gareeb Aadmi PartyKarnataka1
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Maharashtra2
Odisha1
Uttar Pradesh2
Garvi Gujarat PartyGujarat3
Garib Janshakti PartyBihar2
Gujarat Janta Panchayat PartyGujarat1
Ganasangam Party Of IndiaTamil Nadu3
Gorkha Rashtriya CongressWest Bengal1
Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)Bihar3
Hamari Apni PartyMaharashtra1
Hardam Manavtawadi Rashtriya DalAndhra Pradesh1
Hind Congress PartyHaryana12
Punjab1
Hindu Samaj Party1
Hindustan Janta PartyKarnataka37
Maharashtra4
Hindusthan Praja PakshaMaharashtra1
Himachal Jan Kranti PartyHimachal Pradesh1
Hindusthan Nirman DalAssam547
Bihar2
Gujarat9
Jammu & Kashmir1
Jharkhand2
Madhya Pradesh8
Maharashtra2
Odisha2
Rajasthan1
Uttar Pradesh14
Uttarakhand1
Hamro Sikkim PartySikkim1
Hind Samrajya PartyBihar1
Hindustan Shakti SenaChandigarh19
Punjab8
Hum Bhartiya PartyJharkhand19
Maharashtra5
NCT OF Delhi1
Punjab1
Telangana1
Hum Sabki PartyUttar Pradesh1
Indian Christian FrontKarnataka24
Tamil Nadu2
Indian Democratic Republican FrontPunjab12
West Bengal1
Indian Gandhiyan PartyKerala12
Uttar Pradesh
Indian Indira Congress (R)Rajasthan1
Indian Labour Party (Ambedkar Phule)Andhra Pradesh14
Karnataka3
Ilantamilar Munnani KazhagamTamil Nadu1
Indian New Congress PartyKarnataka4
Independent People'S PartyJammu & Kashmir1
Indian National LeagueUttar Pradesh2
India Praja Bandhu PartyAndhra Pradesh411
Chhattisgarh1
Telangana6
Indigenousn People'S Front Of TripuraTripura2
Indian Peoples Green PartyRajasthan2
Indian Rakshaka Nayakudu PartyTelangana1
Indian Unity CentreWest Bengal2
Inqalab Vikas DalUttar Pradesh1
Jan Adesh Akshuni SenaUttar Pradesh1
Jan Adhikar PartyBihar619
Madhya Pradesh3
Maharashtra7
Uttar Pradesh3
Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)Bihar1
Jharkhand Anushilan PartyWest Bengal1
Janta Dal RashtravadiBihar3
Jamat-E-Seratul MustakimWest Bengal2
Jago Hindustan PartyBihar3
Jharkhand Party (Secular)Jharkhand1
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Jharkhand PartyJharkhand4
Jai Hind PartyBihar1
Jai Hind Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh1
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Jammu & Kashmir Pir Panjal Awami PartyJammu & Kashmir1
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Jharkhand Party (Naren)Jharkhand12
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Janvadi Party(Socialist)Bihar12
Uttar Pradesh1
Janapaalana Party (Democratic)Andhra Pradesh1
Jai Prakash Janata DalBihar511
Jharkhand2
NCT OF Delhi2
Odisha2
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Jharkhand People's Party1
Janta Raj PartyUttar Pradesh2
Janral Samaj PartyChandigarh15
Punjab4
Janta Raj Vikas PartyBihar1
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Jansatta Dal LoktantrikUttar Pradesh2
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NCT OF Delhi1
Uttar Pradesh1
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Janasena PartyAndhra Pradesh1724
Telangana7
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Jai Swaraj PartyTelangana1
Jan Seva Sahayak PartyUttar Pradesh2
Jansatta PartyUttar Pradesh2
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Jharkhand1
Rajasthan1
West Bengal1
Janta Kranti Party (Rashtravadi)Uttar Pradesh2
Justice Party1
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Jantantrik Vikas PartyBihar3
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)Jharkhand2
Jwala DalUttar Pradesh1
Jammu & Kashmir National Panthers PartyBihar1
Jammu & Kashmir5
NCT OF Delhi1
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Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party +Jammu & Kashmir2
Jammu & Kashmir People ConferenceJammu & Kashmir3
Kamatapur People'S Party (United)West Bengal6
Kerala CongressKerala1
Kannada Chalavali Vatal PakshaKarnataka1
Kisan Raj PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Kisan Raksha PartyUttar Pradesh1
Karnataka Jantha PakshaKarnataka2
Karnataka Karmikara PakshaKarnataka4
Kalinga SenaJharkhand15
Odisha4
Kisan Majdoor Berojgar SanghUttar Pradesh1
Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh PartyUttar Pradesh4
Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha PartyKarnataka1
Kisan Party Of IndiaMadhya Pradesh2
Karnataka Praja Party (Raithaparva)Karnataka2
Kranti Kari Jai Hind SenaKarnataka15
Maharashtra4
Kartavya Rashtriya PartyUttar Pradesh1
Krupaa PartyOdisha3
Kanshiram Bahujan DalNCT OF Delhi15
Uttar Pradesh4
Khusro Sena PartyUttar Pradesh1
Kalyankari Jantantrik PartyUttar Pradesh1
Lok Chetna DalBihar1
Lok Gathbandhan PartyGujarat17
Uttar Pradesh6
Lok Insaaf PartyPunjab3
Lok Jan Sangharsh PartyUttar Pradesh1
Loktantrik Jan Swaraj PartyBihar1
Lok Jan Vikas MorchaBihar2
Lok DalUttar Pradesh5
Lokjagar PartyMaharashtra1
Loktantrik Janshakti PartyUttar Pradesh1
Lokpriya Samaj PartyHaryana1
Loktanter Suraksha PartyHaryana2
Loktantrik Rashrtavadi PartyGujarat1
Lok Sewa DalBihar1
LoksangramMaharashtra1
Maharashtra Swabhimaan PakshMaharashtra2
Makkal Sananayaga Kudiyarasu KatchiTamil Nadu1
Manipur People'S PartyManipur1
Moulik Adhikar PartyBihar113
Uttar Pradesh12
Mera Adhikaar Rashtriya DalUttar Pradesh2
Marxist Communist Party Of India (United)Andhra Pradesh16
Kerala1
Rajasthan1
Telangana3
Mazdoor Dalit Kisaan Mahila Gareeb Party (Hindustani)Uttar Pradesh1
Minorities Democratic PartyMadhya Pradesh23
Uttar Pradesh1
Manipur Democratic Peoples's FrontManipur1
Mundadugu Praja PartyAndhra Pradesh4
Mahamukti DalUttar Pradesh1
Mahasankalp Janta PartyUttar Pradesh2
Makkalatchi KatchiTamil Nadu2
Manav Kranti PartyUttar Pradesh1
Maharashtra Kranti SenaMaharashtra2
Majdoor Kisan Union PartyUttar Pradesh1
Mazdoor Kirayedar Vikas PartyNCT OF Delhi5
Marxist Leninist Party Of India (Red Flag)Karnataka13
Maharashtra2
Mithilanchal Mukti MorchaBihar1
Makkal Needhi MaiamPuducherry138
Tamil Nadu37
Manvadhikar National PartyGujarat24
Jammu & Kashmir2
Manavtawadi Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh2
Madhya Pradesh Jan Vikas PartyMadhya Pradesh3
Mulnibasi Party of IndiaWest Bengal2
Moolniwasi Samaj PartyBihar23
Jharkhand1
Maanavvaadi Janta PartyBihar2
Manuvadi PartyUttar Pradesh1
Mahila & Yuva Shakti PartyHaryana1
New All India Congress PartyGujarat2
National Apni PartyNCT OF Delhi1
Nationalist People'S FrontRajasthan1
Nirbhay Bharteey PartyGujarat1
National Bhrashtachar Mukt PartyUttar Pradesh1
Navsarjan Bharat PartyDadra & Nagar Haveli1
National Dalitha Dhal PartyAndhra Pradesh1
National Development PartyKarnataka1
New Democratic Party of IndiaWest Bengal3
Navbharat Ekta DalHimachal Pradesh1
North East India Development PartyManipur2
Nagrik Ekta PartyUttar Pradesh4
National Fifty Fifty FrontUttar Pradesh1
Naam Indiar PartyTamil Nadu2
Nationalist Janshakti PartyUttar Pradesh2
National Jagaran PartyBihar1
National Labour PartyKerala1
National Lokmat PartyUttar Pradesh1
Nationalist Justice PartyPunjab4
National Nava Kranthi PartyAndhra Pradesh1
Navbharat Nirman PartyMaharashtra1
Nava Praja Rajyam PartyTelangana1
National Republican CongressAssam2
The National Road Map Party Of IndiaAssam12
NCT OF Delhi1
Nava Samaj PartyAndhra Pradesh1
Netaji Subhash Chander Bose Rashtriya Azad PartyUttar Pradesh1
Naam Tamilar KatchiPuducherry138
Tamil Nadu37
Naitik PartyMaharashtra26
Uttar Pradesh4
Navarang Congress PartyAndhra Pradesh35
Jammu & Kashmir2
Navodayam PartyAndhra Pradesh2
Navnirman PartyHaryana1
Navataram PartyAndhra Pradesh1
New India PartyTelangana2
National Women'S PartyMadhya Pradesh13
Telangana1
Nawan Punjab PartyPunjab1
National Youth PartyNCT OF Delhi2
Odisha Pragati DalOdisha1
Proutist Bloc, IndiaBihar19
Karnataka2
Madhya Pradesh1
Maharashtra1
NCT OF Delhi3
Odisha1
PC3
Peace PartyMaharashtra314
Uttar Pradesh11
Puducherry Development PartyPuducherry1
Peoples Democratic PartyJammu & Kashmir15
Kerala2
Party For Democratic SocialismWest Bengal5
People's Party Of India(secular)Tamil Nadu23
People'S Union PartyMaharashtra1
Punjab Ekta PartyPunjab33
Pichhra Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh1
Prajatantra Aadhar PartyGujarat1
Prem Janata DalTelangana1
Prahar Janshakti PartyMaharashtra1
Purvanchal Janta Party (Secular)Assam614
Jharkhand1
Karnataka1
Odisha1
Tamil Nadu2
West Bengal3
Pragatisheel Lok ManchUttarakhand1
Punjab Labour PartyPunjab1
Public Mission PartyBihar2
Pragatisheel Manav Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh3
Pravasi Nivasi PartyKerala1
Peoples Party Of India (Democratic)Bihar956
Chhattisgarh1
Gujarat2
Haryana6
Himachal Pradesh1
Jharkhand4
Madhya Pradesh7
Maharashtra6
NCT OF Delhi5
Punjab2
Rajasthan2
Uttar Pradesh8
Uttarakhand1
People'S Party Of ArunachalArunachal Pradesh2
Pyramid Party Of IndiaAndhra Pradesh2048
Gujarat2
Karnataka6
NCT OF Delhi5
Punjab1
Tamil Nadu2
Telangana11
West Bengal1
Prajatantrik Samadhan PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Poorvanchal Rashtriya CongressMadhya Pradesh12
Rajasthan1
Peoples Representation For Identity And Status Of Mizoram (Prism) PartyMizoram16
NCT OF Delhi5
Prithviraj Janshakti PartyUttar Pradesh3
Prabuddha Republican PartyMaharashtra45
Rajasthan1
Praja Shanthi PartyAndhra Pradesh4
Praja Satta PartyKarnataka12
Telangana1
Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)Bihar882
Haryana8
Jammu & Kashmir1
Karnataka2
Madhya Pradesh9
Maharashtra1
Odisha2
Rajasthan1
Tamil Nadu2
Uttar Pradesh47
Uttarakhand1
Pichhara Samaj Party UnitedJharkhand12
Madhya Pradesh1
Proutist Sarva SamajBihar17
Jharkhand2
Karnataka1
Rajasthan2
Uttar Pradesh
Pragatisheel Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh3
Prajaa Swaraaj PartyTelangana1
Purvanchal MahapanchayatBihar23
Uttar Pradesh1
Parivartan Samaj PartyMadhya Pradesh13
NCT OF Delhi1
Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Ambedkar DalUttar Pradesh1
Radical DemocratsAndhra Pradesh1
Rashtriya Aadarsh Member PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Raita Bharat PartyKarnataka1
Rajnaitik Vikalp PartyBihar1
Rashtriya Ahinsa ManchWest Bengal1
Rashtriya Aamjan PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Rajyadhikara PartyAndhra Pradesh1
Rashtrawadi Party of India,Uttar Pradesh2
Rashtriya Independent MorchaOdisha1
Rashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)West Bengal5
Rashtriya Jansanchar Dal1
Rashtriya Janta PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Janwadi Party (Socialist)Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Mahan Gantantra PartyBihar3
Rashtriya Mahila Party1
Rashtriya Matadata PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Naujawan DalUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Sahara PartyHaryana13
Punjab2
Rastriya Aam Jan Seva PartyMaharashtra1
Rastriya Insaaf PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Vikas PartyHaryana1
Rayalaseema Rashtra SamithiAndhra Pradesh1
Rashtriya Bahujan Congress PartyMaharashtra1
Rashtriya Bhagidari Samaj PartyHaryana1
Rashtriya Bharatiya Jan Jan PartyUttar Pradesh2
Rashtriya Backward PartyUttar Pradesh1
Republican Bahujan SenaMaharashtra1
Rashtriya Dal UnitedBihar1
Real Democracy PartyGujarat1
Rashtriya Garib DalHaryana12
Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Gondvana PartyChhattisgarh1
Rashtriya Jansena PartyMaharashtra1
Rashtriya Hind SenaBihar6
Rashtriya Jansabha PartyChhattisgarh7
Rashtriya Jan Adhikar PartyNCT OF Delhi12
West Bengal1
Rashtriya Jan Adhikar Party (United)Uttar Pradesh2
Rashtriya Janadhikar Suraksha PartyWest Bengal6
Rashtriya Jatigat Aarakshan Virodhi PartyHaryana1
Rashtriya Jantantrik Bharat Vikas PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Jan Gaurav PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Janhit Sangharsh PartyManipur1
Rashtriya Jankranti PartyChandigarh13
Jammu & Kashmir1
Telangana1
Rashtriya Janmat PartyUttar Pradesh12
Rashtriya Jansurajya PartyMaharashtra2
Rashtriya Janshakti Party (Secular)Maharashtra27
Punjab1
Rashtriya Jansambhavna PartyBihar713
Karnataka1
Maharashtra2
NCT OF Delhi1
Rajasthan1
Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Jansangharsh Swaraj PartyJharkhand2
Rashtriya Janutthan PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtravadi Kranti DalMaharashtra1
Rashtriya Kranti PartyRajasthan15
Uttar Pradesh4
Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi PartyAndhra Pradesh14
Madhya Pradesh1
Rajasthan1
Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Lok Sarvadhikar PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Lok DalUttar Pradesh3
Rashtriya Lokswaraj PartyChandigarh18
Haryana6
Rashtriya Mazdoor Ekta PartyHaryana13
Uttar Pradesh2
Rashtriya Mangalam PartyRajasthan1
Rashtriya Maratha PartyMaharashtra5
Revolutionary Marxist Party of IndiaHaryana12
Rashtra Nirman PartyHaryana15
Madhya Pradesh1
NCT OF Delhi3
Rashtriya Nav Nirman Bharat PartyGujarat1
Republican Paksha (Khoripa)Chhattisgarh1
Rashtriya Praja Congress (Secular)Andhra Pradesh1
Rashtriya Pragati PartyBihar1
Republican Party Of IndiaBihar18
Haryana1
Karnataka1
Tamil Nadu1
Telangana1
Uttar Pradesh1
Republican Party Of India (Kamble)Goa1
Republican Party Of India (A)Andhra Pradesh533
Assam3
Bihar2
Chandigarh3
Haryana1
Jharkhand2
Karnataka3
Madhya Pradesh4
NCT OF Delhi5
Punjab1
Tamil Nadu2
Uttar Pradesh1
West Bengal1
Republican Party Of India (KHOBRAGADE)Andhra Pradesh12
Telangana1
Republican Party of India (Reformist)Madhya Pradesh12
Republican Party Of India (Karnataka)Karnataka4
Republican Party of India EktavadiHaryana1
Rashtriya Power PartyGujarat23
Rajasthan1
Republican SenaKarnataka4
Rashtriya Rashtrawadi PartyBihar17
Haryana1
Madhya Pradesh1
NCT OF Delhi3
Rajasthan1
Rashtriya Apna DalMadhya Pradesh12
Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtrawadi Shramjeevi DalUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Sangail PartyJharkhand1
Rashtriya Sahyog PartyBihar1
Rashtriya Samaj PakshaGujarat112
Karnataka2
Kerala1
Madhya Pradesh1
Punjab1
Uttar Pradesh6
Rashtriya Samanta DalUttar Pradesh2
Rashtriya Samrasta PartyNCT OF Delhi3
Rashtriya Samta Party (Secular)Bihar45
Jharkhand1
Rashtravadi Party (Bharat)Uttar Pradesh1
Revolutionary Socialist Party Of India(Marxist)1
Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (Secular)Gujarat12
Maharashtra1
Rashtra Sewa DalBihar1
Rashtriya Shoshit Samaj PartyMadhya Pradesh27
Uttar Pradesh5
Rashtriya Samta Vikas PartyRajasthan1
Rashtriya Sarvjan Vikas PartyBihar2
Rashtriya Azad ManchHimachal Pradesh2
Rashtriya Janvikas Party (Democratic)Bihar1
Right to Recall PartyGujarat414
Jharkhand1
Karnataka1
Madhya Pradesh1
Maharashtra1
NCT OF Delhi2
Rajasthan3
Uttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Ulama CouncilBihar110
Maharashtra4
Uttar Pradesh5
Rashtravadi Janata PartyBihar24
West Bengal2
Rashtriya Viklang PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtriya Vyapari PartyUttar Pradesh1
Rashtra Vikas Zumbes PartyGujarat1
Rashtrawadi Chetna Party1
Sathi Aur Aapka Faisala PartyBihar2
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)(Simranjit Singh Mann)Punjab2
Samaj Adhikar Kalyan PartyChandigarh16
Punjab5
Samajwadi Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh1
Sabse Achchhi PartyUttar Pradesh2
Sarvshreshth DalUttar Pradesh1
Saman Aadmi Saman PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Sabka Dal UnitedUttar Pradesh3
Swatantra Bharat PakshaMaharashtra3
Sabhi Jan PartyUttar Pradesh2
Samaj Bhalai Morcha1
Swarna Bharat PartyAssam13
Maharashtra1
Rajasthan1
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj PartyBihar524
Uttar Pradesh19
Socialist Party (India)Madhya Pradesh13
Punjab1
Uttar Pradesh1
Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali)Punjab1
Secular Democratic CongressKarnataka14
Kerala2
Telangana1
Social Democratic Party Of IndiaAndhra Pradesh114
Karnataka1
Kerala10
Tamil Nadu1
West Bengal1
Samajwadi Forward BlocAndhra Pradesh111
Karnataka1
Kerala1
Maharashtra1
Tamil Nadu1
Telangana6
Saaf PartyUttar Pradesh2
Sangharsh SenaMaharashtra1
Shane Hind FourmUttar Pradesh1
Shiromani Akali Dal(Taksali)1
Shri Janta PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Smart Indians PartyMadhya Pradesh4
Samajwadi Janata Dal DemocraticBihar1
Samajwadi Jan ParishadWest Bengal1
Swatantra Jantaraj PartyMadhya Pradesh19
Uttar Pradesh8
Samajwadi Janata Party(Karnataka)Karnataka1
Social Justice Party Of IndiaTelangana3
Sajag Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh1
Sanjhi Virasat PartyNCT OF Delhi1
Sankhyanupati Bhagidari PartyBihar2
Samata Kranti DalOdisha1
Satya Kranti PartyUttar Pradesh1
Shiromani Lok Dal Party1
Sarvjan Lok Shakti PartyUttar Pradesh2
Samrat Ashok Sena PartyUttar Pradesh1
Samajik Nyaya PartyHaryana2
Samta Vikas PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Socialist Janata PartyNCT OF Delhi1
Swaraj Party (Loktantrik)Bihar2
Sapaks PartyBihar112
Haryana1
Madhya Pradesh10
Samajtantric Party Of IndiaWest Bengal1
Samaanya Praja PartyAndhra Pradesh1
Sarvadharam Party (MADHYA PRADESH)Chhattisgarh12
Madhya Pradesh1
Sanman Rajkiya PakshaMaharashtra1
Sikkim Republican PartySikkim1
Sarvodaya Prabhat PartyNCT OF Delhi1
Shakti Sena (Bharat Desh)Chhattisgarh1
Shoshit Samaj DalBihar7
Samata Samadhan PartyMadhya Pradesh1
Samdarshi Samaj PartyUttar Pradesh2
Sanatan Sanskriti Raksha DalMadhya Pradesh17
Maharashtra2
NCT OF Delhi3
Uttar Pradesh1
Satya Bahumat PartyHimachal Pradesh17
NCT OF Delhi3
Rajasthan2
Uttar Pradesh1
Subhashwadi Bhartiya Samajwadi Party (Subhas Party)Uttar Pradesh3
Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Andhra Pradesh2114
Assam6
Bihar8
Chhattisgarh2
Gujarat2
Haryana4
Jharkhand5
Karnataka7
Kerala9
Madhya Pradesh3
Maharashtra1
NCT OF Delhi1
Odisha8
Puducherry1
Punjab1
Rajasthan1
Tamil Nadu4
Telangana2
Tripura1
Uttar Pradesh3
Uttarakhand1
West Bengal42
Sikkim United Front (SUF)Sikkim1
Sunder Samaj PartyChhattisgarh1
Samagra Utthan PartyBihar17
Madhya Pradesh5
Uttar Pradesh1
Svatantra Bharat Satyagrah PartyGujarat2
Sarvodaya Bharat PartyChhattisgarh18
Gujarat1
Madhya Pradesh1
Maharashtra2
Uttar Pradesh3
Sarva Janata PartyKarnataka3
Sarv Vikas PartyUttarakhand1
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel PartyGujarat4
Sarvjan Sewa PartyChandigarh12
Punjab1
Swarnim Bharat InquilabMadhya Pradesh1
Swabhiman PartyChhattisgarh13
Himachal Pradesh2
Swatantra Samaj PartyBihar1
Sanyukt Vikas PartyBihar16
Gujarat3
NCT OF Delhi1
Uttar Pradesh1
Tamil Nadu Ilangyar KatchiTamil Nadu16
Telangana Communist Party Of IndiaTelangana1
The Future India PartyTamil Nadu1
Telangana Jana SamithiTelangana2
Tamil Maanila Congress (MOOPANAR)Tamil Nadu1
Tamizhaga Murpokku Makkal KatchiTamil Nadu1
Tola PartyHaryana1
Telangana Prajala PartyTelangana1
Telangana Sakalajanula PartyTelangana1
Tamil Telugu National PartyTamil Nadu1
Telangana Yuva ShaktiTelangana1
Tripura Peoples PartyTripura1
Universal Brotherhood MovementTamil Nadu1
United Democratic Front SecularUttar Pradesh1
United Democratic PartyMeghalaya1
Uttarakhand Kranti DalUttarakhand4
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (Democratic)Uttarakhand4
Uttarakhand Parivartan PartyUttarakhand1
Ulzaipali Makkal KatchyTamil Nadu6
United People's Party, LiberiaAssam2
Uttarakhand Pragatisheel PartyNCT OF Delhi12
Uttarakhand1
Uttar Pradesh Navnirman SenaJharkhand1
Uttama Prajaakeeya PartyKarnataka27
United States Of India PartyTamil Nadu1
Vanchit Bahujan AaghadiMaharashtra46
Vikassheel Insaan PartyBihar4
Vishwa Jana PartyAndhra Pradesh2
Vishwa Manav Samaj Kalyan ParishadUttar Pradesh1
Vikas Insaf PartyUttar Pradesh2
Vivasayigal Makkal Munnetra KatchiTamil Nadu1
Voters Party InternationalAssam720
Bihar6
Jharkhand1
NCT OF Delhi1
Uttar Pradesh5
Vyavastha Parivartan PartyGujarat4
Vanchitsamaj Insaaf PartyUttar Pradesh3
Vishva Shakti PartyJharkhand23
Madhya Pradesh1
Vanchit Samaj PartyBihar4
Voters PartyHaryana2
Wazib Adhikar PartyBihar1
Welfare Party Of IndiaWest Bengal2
Yuva Jan Jagriti PartyGujarat6
Yuva Krantikari PartyBihar4
Yekikrutha Sankshema Rashtriya Praja PartyTelangana1
Yuva SarkarGujarat2
Yuva Vikas PartyUttar Pradesh1

Voter statistics

According to the ECI, 900 million people were eligible to vote, with an increase of 84.3 million voters since the last election in 2014,[123] [124] making it the largest-ever election in the world.[125] 15 million voters aged 18–19 years became eligible to vote for the first time.[126] [127] 468 million eligible voters were males, 432 million were females and 38,325 identified themselves belonging to third gender. Total 71,735 overseas voters also enrolled.

The residents of the former enclaves exchanged under the 2015 India-Bangladesh boundary agreement voted for the first time.[128]

Electronic voting machines and security

The ECI deployed a total of 1.74 million voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) units and 3.96 million electronic voting machines (EVM) in 1,035,918 polling stations.[129] [130] [131] [132] Approximately 270,000 paramilitary and 2 million state police personnel provided organisational support and security at various polling booths.[133] On 9 April 2019, the Supreme Court ordered the ECI to increase VVPAT slips vote count to five randomly selected EVMs per assembly constituency, which meant that the ECI had to count VVPAT slips of 20,625 EVMs before it could certify the final election results.[134] [135] [136]

Voting

In the first phase, 69.58 per cent of the 142 million eligible voters cast their vote to elect their representatives for 91 Lok Sabha seats.[137] The voter turnout was 68.77 per cent in the same constituencies in the 2014 general elections. In the second phase, 156 million voters were eligible to vote for 95 Lok Sabha seats and the turnout was 69.45 per cent, compared to 69.62 per cent in 2014. For the third phase, 189 million voters were eligible to elect 116 Lok Sabha representatives. According to ECI, the turnout for this phase was 68.40 per cent, compared to 67.15 per cent in 2014. In the fourth of seven phases, 65.50 per cent of the 128 million eligible voters cast their vote to elect 72 representatives to the Indian parliament while the turnout for the same seats in the 2014 election was 63.05 per cent. The fifth phase was open to 87.5 million eligible voters, who could cast their vote in over 96,000 polling booths.[138] In the sixth phase, 64.40 per cent of the 101 million eligible voters cast their vote in about 113,000 polling stations.[139]

Turnout

The final turnout stood at 67.11 per cent, the highest ever turnout recorded in any of the general elections till date. The percentage is 1.16 per cent higher than the 2014 elections whose turnout stood at 65.95 per cent.[140] Over 600 million voters polled their votes in 2019 Indian General elections.

Phase-wise voter turnout details

State/UTTotalVoter turnout by phase
Phase 111 AprilPhase 218 AprilPhase 323 AprilPhase 429 AprilPhase 56 MayPhase 612 MayPhase 719 May
SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)SeatsTurnout (%)
Andhra Pradesh2579.70 2579.70
Arunachal Pradesh278.47 278.47
Assam1481.52 578.27 581.19 485.11
Bihar4057.33 453.44 562.92 561.21 559.18 557.08 858.48851.38
Chhattisgarh1171.48 166.04 374.95 770.73
Goa274.94 274.94
Gujarat2664.11 2664.11
Haryana1070.341070.34
Himachal Pradesh470.22470.22
Jammu and Kashmir644.97 257.38 245.66 13.68 10.32 119.92
Jharkhand1466.80 364.97 465.99 465.42355.59
Karnataka2868.63 1468.80 1468.47
Kerala2077.67 2077.67
Madhya Pradesh2971.10 674.90 769.14 865.24 875.64
Maharashtra4860.79 763.04 1062.85 1462.36 1757.33
Manipur282.75 184.20 181.24
Meghalaya271.43 271.43
Mizoram163.12 163.12
Nagaland183.09 183.09
Odisha2173.06 473.82 572.56 671.62 674.38
Punjab1365.961365.96
Rajasthan2566.34 1368.17 1263.71
Sikkim178.81 178.81
Tamil Nadu3872.02 3872.02
Telangana1762.711762.71
Tripura283.20 183.21 183.19
Uttar Pradesh8059.21 863.92 862.46 1061.42 1359.11 1458.00 1454.441347.82
Uttarakhand561.48 561.48
West Bengal4281.76 283.80 381.72 581.97 882.84 780.09 884.50978.73
Andaman and Nicobar Islands165.08 165.08
Chandigarh170.62170.62
Dadra and Nagar Haveli179.59 179.59
Daman and Diu171.83 171.83
Delhi760.51760.51
Lakshadweep184.96 184.96
Puducherry181.21 181.21
Total54267.11 9169.58 9569.45 11668.407165.50 5064.16 5964.405961.71

State/UT-wise voter turnout details

State/UTTotal electorsTotal votersTotal turnoutTotal seats
Andaman & Nicobar Islands (UT) 318,471 207,398 65.12% 1
Andhra Pradesh 39,405,967 31,674,526 80.38% 25
Arunachal Pradesh 803,563 659,766 82.11% 2
Assam 22,050,059 17,992,753 81.60% 14
Bihar 71,216,290 40,830,453 57.33% 40
Chandigarh (UT) 646,729 456,637 70.61% 1
Chhattisgarh 19,016,462 13,622,625 71.64% 11
Dadra & Nagar Haveli (UT) 250,029 198,984 79.58% 1
Daman & Diu (UT) 121,740 87,473 71.85% 1
Goa 1,136,113 853,724 75.14% 2
Gujarat 45,152,373 29,128,364 64.51% 26
Haryana 18,057,010 12,701,029 70.34% 10
Himachal Pradesh 5,330,154 3,859,940 72.42% 4
Jammu & Kashmir 7,922,538 3,562,744 44.97% 6
Jharkhand 22,404,856 14,966,781 66.80% 14
Karnataka 51,094,530 35,159,448 68.81% 28
Kerala 26,204,836 20,397,168 77.84% 20
Lakshadweep (UT) 55,189 47,026 85.21% 1
Madhya Pradesh 51,867,474 36,928,342 71.20% 29
Maharashtra 88,676,946 54,111,038 61.02% 48
Manipur 1,959,563 1,620,451 82.69% 2
Meghalaya 1,914,796 1,367,759 71.43% 2
Mizoram 792,464 500,347 63.14% 1
Nagaland 1,213,777 1,007,437 83.00% 1
NCT of Delhi 14,327,649 8,682,366 60.60% 7
Odisha 32,497,762 23,817,169 73.29% 21
Puducherry (UT) 973,410 790,895 81.25%1
Punjab 20,892,673 13,777,295 65.94% 13
Rajasthan 48,955,813 32,476,481 66.34% 25
Sikkim 434,128 353,415 81.41% 1
Tamil Nadu 59,941,832 43,419,753 72.44% 39
Telangana 29,708,615 18,646,856 62.77% 17
Tripura 2,614,718 2,154,550 82.40% 2
Uttar Pradesh 146,134,603 86,531,972 59.21% 80
Uttarakhand 7,856,318 4,861,415 61.88% 5
West Bengal 70,001,284 57,230,01881.76% 42
India 911,950,734 614,684,398 67.40% 543

Surveys and polls

Exit polls

Poll typeDate publishedPolling agencyOthersMajorityRef
NDAUPA
Exit pollsIndia Today-Axis[141]
News24-Today's Chanakya[142]
News18-IPSOS
CNN-IBN-IPSOS
3368212464[143] [144]
VDP Associates3331159461[145]
Sudarshan News31312110941[146]
Times Now-VMR[147]
Suvarna News30512410233
India TV-CNX[148]
India News-Polstrat28712812715[149]
CVoter28712812715
News Nation28612213414[150]
ABP-CSDS2771301355
NewsX-Neta242164137Hung

Results

See main article: Results of the 2019 Indian general election, List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha and 17th Lok Sabha.

Aftermath

Reactions

National

Indian National Congress party leaders such as Rahul Gandhi and others conceded defeat and congratulated Modi and his party.[151] Other opposition parties and political leaders such as Sharad Pawar,[152] Mamata Banerjee and Omar Abdullah,[153] congratulated PM Modi and BJP for their victory.

On 20 November 2019 the Association for Democratic Reforms filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India over alleged ballot-counting discrepancies in the Lok Sabha voting and seeking a probe by the ECI.[154]

International

The leaders of Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Comoros, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, North Korea, Nigeria, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe congratulated Narendra Modi and the BJP on their victory.[155]

Impact

The benchmark BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices hit intraday record highs and the Indian rupee strengthened after the exit polls and on the day the election results were announced.[156]

See also

Further reading