India General election (Lok Sabha) 2019 — Results
Election day: April 11, 2019
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): 37.30%, 303 seats
- Indian National Congress (INC): 19.46%, 52 seats
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK): 2.34%, 24 seats
- All India Trinamool Congress (TMC): 4.06%, 22 seats
- YSR Congress Party (YSRCP): 2.53%, 22 seats
- Shiv Sena: 2.09%, 18 seats
- Janata Dal (United) — JDU: 1.45%, 16 seats
- Biju Janata Dal (BJD): 1.66%, 12 seats
Turnout: 67.40%
About this election
How the vote works
India uses a first-past-the-post (FPTP) system for the 543 directly elected seats in the Lok Sabha (House of the People), the lower house of parliament. Each of the 543 constituencies elects one member by simple plurality — the candidate with the most votes wins, regardless of how small the margin. This system strongly amplifies the advantages of a geographically concentrated vote: in 2019 the BJP won 37.30% of national votes but 55.8% of seats, while parties with diffuse national support (like Congress) were badly under-represented relative to their vote share. The Rajya Sabha (Council of States), the upper house, is indirectly elected by state and territorial assemblies and is not included here. A general election must be held at least every five years; the President nominates the leader most likely to command a parliamentary majority as Prime Minister.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 17.84 points separated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Indian National Congress (INC) — 109,581,665 votes.
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) converted 37.30% of the vote into 303 of 543 seats (55.80%), 18.50 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 56.76% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ranged from 100.00% in Arunachal Pradesh to 15.40% in Punjab — a spread of 84.60 points across 26 regions, and it led in 21 of 36.
- Turnout of 67.40% is the highest of the 2 general election (Lok Sabha)s covered here since 2019.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election