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General Election 2024 · 543 seats · 4 June verdict

BJP wins a third term, without a majority of its own

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a third consecutive term in 2024, but had to govern through its NDA allies.

240–63
BJP seats
66.1%
Turnout
224
Seats flipped
6.37M
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543 constituencies · 18 elections · 19512024
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Seventy-three years in motion

Lok Sabha
18 general elections · 19512024
  1. 1951
  2. ’57
  3. ’62
  4. ’67
  5. ’71
  6. ’77
  7. ’80
  8. ’84
  9. ’89
  10. ’91
  11. ’96
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  13. ’99
  14. ’04
  15. ’09
  16. ’14
  17. ’19
  18. 2024
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How this is made

Every map on this site is drawn to the boundaries that governed the election it shows — era-true, not projected backward onto today’s lines. Each layer states its own vintage and confidence, from reconstructed 1950s geometry to today’s high-resolution surveys.

Results come from the Election Commission of India’s own reports; boundaries from DataMeet, datta07, NIC BharatMaps, Susewind and Prof. Sandip Sukhtankar & Manasa Patnam’s shapefiles; candidate affidavits from MyNeta (ADR); the place behind each seat from the Census, RBI, NCRB, ASI, Wikidata and the GI registry — every one credited, with its terms, on the About page.

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Primary sources: Election Commission of India · 1951–2024