541 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha 271 seats needed for a majority
Registered
400,375,333
Turnout
64.01% ( 7.09pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Rajiv Gandhi
N. T. Rama Rao
Party
INC(I)
TDP
Last election
42.69%, 353 seats
Did not exist
Seats won
414
30
Seat change
61
New
Popular vote
120,107,044
10,132,859
Percentage
46.86%
4.31%
Swing
4.17pp
New
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Chandra Shekhar
Party
CPI(M)
JP
Last election
6.24%, 37 seats
18.97%, 31 seats
Seats won
22
10
Seat change
15
21
Popular vote
13,809,950
16,210,514
Percentage
5.87%
6.89%
Swing
0.37pp
12.08pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election
Rajiv Gandhi
INC(I)
Prime Minister after election
Rajiv Gandhi
INC(I)
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General elections were held in India in 1984 soon after the assassination of previous Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, though the vote in Assam and Punjab was delayed until 1985 due to ongoing insurgency.
The elections were a landslide victory for the Indian National Congress (Indira) of Rajiv Gandhi (son of Indira Gandhi), which won 404 of the 514 seats elected in 1984 and a further 10 in the delayed elections. The Telugu Desam Party of N. T. Rama Rao, a regional political party from the state of Andhra Pradesh, was the second largest party, winning 30 seats, thus achieving the distinction of becoming the first regional party to become a national opposition party. Voting was held immediately after the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in November and most of the Indian voters supported Congress (Indira) due to a heavy outpouring of public grief at Gandhi's death.
The 1984 elections were the last in which a single party won a majority of seats until 2014, and the only time to date in which a party won more than 400 seats.
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