Who won India in 1998?
India elects 543 , one per . Whoever gets 272 forms the government.
people could vote
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Seats
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Votes vs seats
pale = share of votes · solid = share of seats
A party can win a bigger share of seats than of votes: the seat goes to whoever is first past the post.
Parties
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Seats over time
seats won in each Lok Sabha election, 1967 to 2024
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Turnout by state
line = India, 62.0%
Records
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Som Marandi (BJP)
Dr.Kathiriya Vallabhbhai Ramjibhai (BJP)
9,42,965 votes cast
2,26,597 votes cast
0.0% of votes
The numbers
About this data
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the 1998 Lok Sabha election (detailed results, list of winners, list of parties). Vote shares are of valid votes, excluding NOTA, as ECI reports them. Turnout here is votes counted (including NOTA) divided by electors, so it runs slightly below ECI's official figure, which also counts rejected votes.
Constituencies of today's Telangana (16), Jharkhand (14), Chhattisgarh (11), Uttarakhand (5) are placed there by name; at the time they were part of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and a few boundaries straddled the present state lines.
Map boundaries are approximate and for illustration.