India General election (Lok Sabha) 2024 — Results
Election day: April 19, 2024
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): 36.56%, 240 seats
- Indian National Congress (INC): 21.19%, 99 seats
- Samajwadi Party (SP): 4.58%, 37 seats
- All India Trinamool Congress (TMC): 4.37%, 29 seats
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK): 1.82%, 22 seats
- Telugu Desam Party (TDP): 1.98%, 16 seats
- Janata Dal (United) — JDU: 1.25%, 12 seats
- Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) — INDIA: 1.48%, 9 seats
Turnout: 66.11%
About this election
How the vote works
India uses a first-past-the-post (FPTP) system for all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. The disproportionality of FPTP is particularly acute in a country with many parties and highly diverse regional preferences: a modest shift in vote share between two evenly matched parties can transfer dozens of seats, while parties whose votes are spread thinly across many constituencies may win millions of votes but few seats. In 2024 this dynamic worked against the BJP: in Uttar Pradesh, where the Samajwadi Party concentrated its appeal among OBC and Muslim voters, the SP won 37 seats on roughly a third of UP's vote while the BJP fell from 62 to 33 on roughly 42%. The 543-seat Lok Sabha requires 272 for a simple majority; the President invites the leader of the largest parliamentary group most likely to command that majority to form a government.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 13.08 points separated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Others (incl. independents & NOTA) — 84,465,919 votes.
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) converted 36.56% of the vote into 240 of 543 seats (44.20%), 7.64 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 60.04% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moved −0.74 points against the 2019 general election (Lok Sabha) (37.30% → 36.56%).
- Support for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ranged from 100.00% in Andaman and Nicobar Islands to 12.00% in Andhra Pradesh — a spread of 88.00 points across 24 regions, and it led in 18 of 36.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers