1999 Indian general election

1999 Indian general election

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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.