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. 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. The Indian National Congress' 114 seat tally was its worst-ever performance in a general election until it was surpassed by the 2014 and 2019 general elections.