1999 Indian general election
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.
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543 of the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 619,536,847 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 59.99% (1.98pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 1996. Although the Indian National Congress was able to increase its voteshare, its 114 seat tally was considered to be its worst-ever performance in a general election in terms of number of seats obtained until the 2014 general elections.