2024 Indian general election

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2024 Indian general election

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All 543 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Leader Narendra Modi Mallikarjun Kharge Party BJP INC Alliance NDA INDIA Leader since 2013 2022 Leader's seat Varanasi Not contesting Last election 37.36%, 303 seats 19.49%, 52 seats Current seats 294 51 Seats needed 221
Seats by constituency. As this is a FPTP election, seat totals are not determined proportional to each party's total vote share, but instead by the plurality in each constituency.
Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi BJP

General elections are being held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 4 June 2024.

This is the largest-ever election in history, surpassing the previous election, and lasts 44 days, second only to the 1951–52 Indian general election. The incumbent prime minister Narendra Modi, who completed a second term, is running for a third consecutive term.

Approximately 970 million people out of a population of 1.4 billion people are eligible to vote, equivalent to 70% of the total population.^[1][2][3] The legislative assembly elections in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim are to be held simultaneously with the general election, along with the by-elections for 25 constituencies in 12 legislative assemblies.