Next Indian general election

543 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Narendra Modi	Rahul Gandhi
Party	BJP	INC
Alliance	NDA	UPA
Leader since	10 June 2013	May 2004
Leader's seat	Varanasi	Amethi
Last election	282	44

Prime Minister before election

Narendra Modi
BJP

Subsequent Prime Minister

TBD
TBD

General elections are due to be held in India by 2019 to constitute the seventeenth Lok Sabha.

Electoral system

The 543 elected members of the Lok Sabha will be elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. The President of India nominates an additional two members.^[1]

Elections in India

General elections	1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1945 1951–52 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 next

State elections	1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1937 1946 1952 1954 1955 1957 1960 1961 1962 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

See also: Elections in Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal

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