7 April 2014 (2014-04-07) – 12 May 2014 (2014-05-12)
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543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered
834,082,814
Turnout
66.44% ( 8.23pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Narendra Modi
Rahul Gandhi
Party
BJP
INC
Alliance
NDA
UPA
Leader's seat
Varanasi
Amethi
Last election
18.80%, 116 seats
28.55%, 206 seats
Seats won
282
44
Seat change
166
162
Popular vote
171,660,230
106,935,942
Percentage
31.00%
19.31%
Swing
12.20pp
9.24pp
Alliance seats
336
59
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election
Manmohan Singh
INC
Prime Minister after election
Narendra Modi
BJP
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha.[1] With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 elections. Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years.[2] A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats.[3] The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.[3]
The results were declared on 16 May, 15 days before the 15th Lok Sabha completed its constitutional mandate on 31 May 2014.[4] The counting exercise was held at 989 counting centres.[3] The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received 31% of the vote and won 282 seats, while its National Democratic Alliance won a total of 336 seats. The BJP's vote share was the lowest by a party winning a majority of seats since independence,[5] The BJP won 31.0% votes, while NDA's combined vote share was 38.5%. However, the governing coalition had the largest majority since the 1984 elections, and it was the first time since 1984 that a party had won enough seats to govern without the support of other parties.[6][7][8]
In contrast, the result was the worst-ever performance by the Indian National Congress (INC), which had ruled India for most of its post-independence history. The INC received 19.3% of the vote and won only 44 seats, with its wider alliance, the United Progressive Alliance, winning a total of just 59.[9][10][11] In order to become the official opposition party in India, a party must have 55 seats; as a result, there was no official opposition party.[12][13]
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