543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority
Registered
619,536,847
Turnout
59.99% ( 1.98pp)
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Sonia Gandhi
Harkishan Singh Surjeet
Party
BJP
INC
CPI(M)
Alliance
NDA
INC+
LF
Last election
25.59%, 182 seats
25.82%, 141 seats
5.16%, 32 seats
Seats won
182
114
33
Seat change
27
1
Popular vote
86,562,209
103,120,330
19,695,767
Percentage
23.75%
28.30%
5.40%
Swing
1.84pp
2.48pp
0.24pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP
Prime Minister after election
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP
General elections were held in India between 5 September and 3 October 1999, a few months after the Kargil War. Results were announced on 6 October 1999.[1][2]
The elections saw the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party win a majority in the Lok Sabha, the first time since 1984 that a party or alliance had won an outright majority and the second since the 1977 elections that a non-Congress coalition had done so. It was also the third consecutive election in which the party that won the most votes overall did not win the most seats. The elections gave Atal Bihari Vajpayee the record of being the first non-Congress Prime Minister to serve a full five-year term. The decisive result also ended the political instability the country had seen since the 1996 elections that had resulted in a hung parliament. Although the Indian National Congress was able to increase its vote share, its 114 seat tally was considered to be its worst-ever performance in a general election in terms of the number of seats obtained until the 2014 general elections.
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