1998 Indian general election

General elections were held in India on 16, 22 and 28 February 1998 to elect the members of the twelfth Lok Sabha. The elections were held three years ahead of schedule after the government led by Inder Kumar Gujral collapsed when the Indian National Congress (INC) withdrew its support in November 1997.

1998 Indian general election
16, 22 and 28 February 1998
543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha
272 seats needed for a majority
Registered605,880,192
Turnout61.97% ( 4.03pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sitaram Kesri
Party BJP INC
Last election 20.29%, 161 seats 28.80%, 140 seats
Seats won 182 141
Seat change 21 1
Popular vote 94,266,188 95,111,131
Percentage 25.59% 25.82%
Swing 5.30pp 2.98pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet Mulayam Singh Yadav
Party CPI(M) SP
Last election 6.12%, 32 seats 3.28%, 17 seats
Seats won 32 20
Seat change 3
Popular vote 18,991,867 18,167,640
Percentage 5.16% 4.93%
Swing 0.96pp 1.65pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election

Inder Kumar Gujral
Janata Dal

 Prime Minister after election

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BJP

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The result was another hung parliament, with no party or alliance able to muster a majority. However, Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party was able to form a coalition government led by the National Democratic Alliance with the support of the Telugu Desam Party. He was sworn in as Prime Minister with support from 272 of 543 MPs. However, his government collapsed on 17 April 1999 when the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam withdrew their support, after Vajpayee refused to meet the demands of its leaders J. Jayalalithaa, namely halting the case against her disproportionate assets and the sacking of the Tamil Nadu government led by her bete-noire M. Karunanidhi. This led to fresh elections in 1999.

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