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1996 Indian general election
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27 April, 2 May and 7 May 1996
1998 →
← outgoing members
elected members →
543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority
Registered
592,572,288
Turnout
57.94% ( 1.21pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Party
BJP
INC(I)
Last election
20.07%, 120 seats
36.40%, 244 seats
Seats won
161
140
Seat change
41
92
Popular vote
67,950,851
96,455,493
Percentage
20.29%
28.80%
Swing
0.18pp
7.46pp
Third party
Fourth party
Leader
H. D. Deve Gowda
Harkishan Singh Surjeet
Party
JD
CPI(M)
Alliance
UF
UF
Last election
11.73%, 59 seats
6.16%, 35 seats
Seats won
46
32
Seat change
13
3
Popular vote
27,070,340
20,496,810
Percentage
8.08%
6.12%
Swing
3.76pp
0.04pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election
P. V. Narasimha Rao
INC(I)
Prime Minister after election
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP
General elections were held in India on 27 April, 2 May and 7 May 1996 to elect the members of the eleventh Lok Sabha. The elections resulted in a hung parliament with no single party having a clear majority. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had won the most seats, formed a short-lived government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. However, two weeks later the United Front coalition was able to secure a parliamentary majority and H. D. Deve Gowda of Janata Dal became Prime Minister. In 1997 Inder Kumar Gujral, also from the United Front, succeeded Gowda as Prime Minister. Due to the instability, early elections were held in 1998. The elections were the first since 1980 in which every states' seats were elected in a single election period.
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