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| last_election1 = 302 seats{{efn| Total seats won by the NDA in the 2019 election is 353 seats}}
| last_election1 = 302 seats{{efn| Total seats won by the NDA in the 2019 election is 353 seats}}
| last_election2 = 53 seats{{efn| Total seats won by the UPA in the 2019 election is 91 seats}}
| last_election2 = 53 seats{{efn| Total seats won by the UPA in the 2019 election is 91 seats}}
}}{{Short description|2024 national elections of India}}
}}'''General elections''' are expected to be held in [[India]] by May 2024 to elect the members of the 18th [[Lok Sabha]].
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox legislative election
| country = India
| previous_election = [[2019 Indian general election|2019]]
| election_date = '''By May 2024'''
| next_election =
| seats_for_election = All 543 seats in the [[Lok Sabha]]
| majority_seats = 272
| opinion_polls =
| turnout =
| ongoing            = yes
 
|party1 = Bharatiya Janata Party |leader1 = [[Narendra Modi]] |last_election1 = 303 |current_seats1 = 302
|party2 = Indian National Congress |leader2 = [[Rahul Gandhi]] |last_election2 = 52 |current_seats2 = 53
|party3 = Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |leader3 = [[M. K. Stalin]] |last_election3 = 24 |current_seats3 = 24
|party4 = Trinamool Congress |leader4 = [[Mamata Banerjee]] |last_election4 = 22 |current_seats4 = 23
|party5 = YSR Congress Party |leader5 = [[Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy]] |last_election5 = 22 |current_seats5 = 22
|party6 = Janata Dal (United) |leader6 = [[Nitish Kumar]] |last_election6 = 16 |current_seats6 = 16
|party7 = Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena |leader7 = [[Eknath Shinde]] |last_election7 = - |current_seats7 = 13
|party8 = Biju Janata Dal |leader8 = [[Naveen Patnaik]] |last_election8 = 12 |current_seats8 = 12
|party9 = Bahujan Samaj Party |leader9 = [[Mayawati]] |last_election9 = 10 |current_seats9 = 10
|party10 = Bharat Rashtra Samithi |leader10 = [[K. Chandrashekar Rao]] |last_election10 = 9 |current_seats10 = 9
|party11 = Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)  |leader11 = [[Uddhav Thackeray]] |last_election11 = - |current_seats11 = 6
|party12 = Nationalist Congress Party |leader12 = [[Sharad Pawar]] |last_election12 = 5 |current_seats12 = 5
|party13 = Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party |leader13 = [[Pashupati Kumar Paras]] |last_election13 = 5 |current_seats13 = 5
|party14 = Communist Party of India (Marxist) |leader14 = [[Sitaram Yechury]] |last_election14 = 3 |current_seats14 = 3
|party15 = Indian Union Muslim League |leader15 = [[K. M. Kader Mohideen]] |last_election15 = 3 |current_seats15 = 3
|party16 = Jammu & Kashmir National Conference |leader16 = [[Farooq Abdullah]] |last_election16 = 3 |current_seats16 = 3
|party17 = Samajwadi Party |leader17 = [[Akhilesh Yadav]] |last_election17 = 5 |current_seats17 = 3
|party18 = Telugu Desam Party |leader18 = [[N. Chandrababu Naidu]] |last_election18 = 3 |current_seats18 = 3
|party19 = All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen |leader19 = [[Asaduddin Owaisi]] |last_election19 = 2 |current_seats19 = 2
|party20 = Apna Dal (Sonelal) |leader20 = [[Anupriya Patel]] |last_election20 = 2 |current_seats20 = 2
|party21 = Communist Party of India |leader21 = [[D. Raja]] |last_election21 = 2 |current_seats21 = 2
|party22 = Shiromani Akali Dal |leader22 = [[Sukhbir Singh Badal]] |last_election22 = 2 |current_seats22 = 2
|party23 = All India United Democratic Front |leader23 = [[Badruddin Ajmal]] |last_election23 = 1 |current_seats23 = 1
|party24 = All Jharkhand Students Union |leader24 = [[Sudesh Mahto]] |last_election24 = 1 |current_seats24 = 1
|party25 = Janata Dal (Secular) |leader25 = [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] |last_election25 = 1 |current_seats25 = 1
|party26 = Jharkhand Mukti Morcha |leader26 = [[Hemant Soren]] |last_election26 = 1 |current_seats26 = 1
|party27 = Kerala Congress (M) |leader27 = [[Jose K. Mani]] |last_election27 = 1 |current_seats27 = 1
|party28 = Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) |leader28 = [[Chirag Paswan]] |last_election28 = 0 |current_seats28 = 1
|party29 = Mizo National Front |leader29 = [[Zoramthanga]] |last_election29 = 1 |current_seats29 = 1
|party30 = Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party |leader30 = [[Chingwang Konyak]] |last_election30 = 1 |current_seats30 = 1
|party31 = Naga People's Front |leader31 = [[Kuzholuzo Nienu]] |last_election31 = 1 |current_seats31 = 1
|party32 = National People's Party (India) |leader32 = [[Conrad Sangma]] |last_election32 = 1 |current_seats32 = 1
|party33 = Rashtriya Loktantrik Party |leader33 = [[Hanuman Beniwal]] |last_election33 = 1 |current_seats33 = 1
|party34 = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) |leader34 = Manoj Bhattacharya |last_election34 = 1 |current_seats34 = 1
|party35 = Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) |leader35 = [[Simranjit Singh Mann]] |last_election35 = 0 |current_seats35 = 1
|party36 = Sikkim Krantikari Morcha |leader36 = [[Prem Singh Tamang]] |last_election36 = 1 |current_seats36 = 1
|party37 = Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi |leader37 = [[Thol. Thirumavalavan]] |last_election37 = 1 |current_seats37 = 1
|party38 = Independents |leader38 = - |last_election38 = 4 |current_seats38 = 5
 
| map = Wahlkreise in Indien.svg
| map_caption =
| title = [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]]
| before_election = [[Narendra Modi]]
| before_party = Bharatiya Janata Party
| posttitle = Prime Minister after election
| after_election = [[TBD]]
| after_party =
}}
 
'''General elections''' are expected to be held in [[India]] by May 2024 to elect the members of the 18th [[Lok Sabha]].
==Background==
==Background==
The tenure of [[Lok Sabha]] is scheduled to end on 16 June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Terms of the Houses|url=https://eci.gov.in/elections/term-of-houses/|url-status=live|access-date=7 March 2022|website=Election Commission of India|language=en-IN}}</ref> The [[2019 Indian general election|previous general elections]] were held in April–May 2019. After the election, [[National Democratic Alliance]], led by [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], formed the [[Government of India|union government]], with [[Narendra Modi]] continuing as [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister for second time |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/nation/narendra-modi-sworn-in-as-prime-minister-for-second-time-780564 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en|date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
The tenure of [[Lok Sabha]] is scheduled to end on 16 June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Terms of the Houses|url=https://eci.gov.in/elections/term-of-houses/|url-status=live|access-date=7 March 2022|website=Election Commission of India|language=en-IN}}</ref> The [[2019 Indian general election|previous general elections]] were held in April–May 2019. After the election, [[National Democratic Alliance]], led by [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], formed the [[Government of India|union government]], with [[Narendra Modi]] continuing as [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister for second time |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/nation/narendra-modi-sworn-in-as-prime-minister-for-second-time-780564 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en|date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>

Revision as of 13:49, 13 January 2023


Next Indian general election
← 2019 By May 2024
All 543 seats in the Lok Sabha
272 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi
Party BJP INC
Alliance NDA UPA
Leader since 2013 2014
Leader's seat Varanasi Wayanad
Last election 302 seats[lower-alpha 1] 53 seats[lower-alpha 2]
Incumbent Prime Minister

Narendra Modi
BJP



General elections are expected to be held in India by May 2024 to elect the members of the 18th Lok Sabha.

Background

The tenure of Lok Sabha is scheduled to end on 16 June 2024.[1] The previous general elections were held in April–May 2019. After the election, National Democratic Alliance, led by Bharatiya Janata Party, formed the union government, with Narendra Modi continuing as Prime Minister.[2]

Electoral system

All 543 elected MPs are elected from single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting.[3] The 104th amendment to the constitution effectively abolished the two seats that were reserved for the Anglo-Indian community.[4]

Eligible voters must be Indian citizens, 18 years or older, an ordinary resident of the polling area of the constituency and registered to vote (name included in the electoral rolls), possess a valid voter identification card issued by the Election Commission of India or equivalent.[5] Some people convicted of electoral or other offences are barred from voting.[6]

Article 83 of the Constitution of India requires elections to the Lok Sabha be held once every five years.[7]

Parties and alliances

  National Democratic Alliance

Party Symbol Leader(s) Contesting Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party BJP File:Lotos flower symbol.svg Narendra Modi TBD
National People's Party NPEP
Conrad Sangma TBD
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK Edappadi K. Palaniswami TBD
Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena BSHS
Eknath Shinde TBD
Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party RLJP File:Sewing machine Election symbol.jpg Pashupati Kumar Paras TBD
Bharath Dharma Jana Sena BDJS Thushar Vellapally TBD

  United Progressive Alliance

The member parties of UPA contest election as the part of regional alliances like UDF (led by INC) in Kerala, MVA (led by NCP) in Maharashtra, SPA (led by DMK) in Tamil Nadu and Mahagathbandhan (led by RJD and JD(U)) in Bihar. Some parties of LDF also contest with SPA.

Party Symbol Leader(s) Contesting Seats
Indian National Congress INC
Rahul Gandhi TBD
Nationalist Congress Party NCP
Sharad Pawar TBD
Janata Dal (United) JD(U)
Nitish Kumar TBD
Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP
N. K. Premachandran TBD
Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD
Tejashwi Yadav TBD
Indian Union Muslim League IUML
K. M. Kader Mohideen TBD
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) SHS(UBT)
Uddhav Thackeray TBD
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha JMM
Hemant Soren TBD
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi VCK
Thol. Thirumavalavan TBD
Hindustani Awam Morcha HAM
Jitan Ram Manjhi TBD

  Left Democratic Front

Party[8][9][10] Symbol Leader(s) Contesting Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M)
Sitaram Yechury TBD
Communist Party of India CPI
D Raja TBD
Janata Dal (Secular) JD(S)
H. D. Deve Gowda TBD
Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP
Manoj Bhattacharya TBD
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation CPI(ML)L
Dipankar Bhattacharya TBD
Bharat Rashtra Samithi BRS
K. Chandrashekar Rao TBD
Kerala Congress (M) KC(M)
Jose K. Mani TBD
All India Forward Bloc AIFB
Debabrata Biswas TBD
Peasants and Workers Party of India PWPI Jayant Prabhakar Patil TBD
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) SUCI(C) Provash Ghosh TBD

Non-Aligned Parties

Party Symbol Leader(s) Contesting Seats
Bahujan Samaj Party BSP
Mayawati TBD
All India Trinamool Congress AITC
Mamata Banerjee TBD
Aam Aadmi Party AAP
Arvind Kejriwal TBD
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [lower-alpha 3] DMK
M. K. Stalin TBD
Telugu Desam Party TDP
N. Chandrababu Naidu TBD
Samajwadi Party SP
Akhilesh Yadav TBD
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen AIMIM
Asaduddin Owaisi TBD
Biju Janata Dal BJD
Naveen Patnaik TBD
YSR Congress Party YSRCP
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy TBD

Notes

  1. ↑ Total seats won by the NDA in the 2019 election is 353 seats
  2. ↑ Total seats won by the UPA in the 2019 election is 91 seats
  3. ↑ DMK contest election with some parties of UPA and LDF as the leader of SPA, but it is not part of any national level alliance.

References

  1. ↑ "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ "Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister for second time". Tribuneindia News Service. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  3. ↑ Electoral system Archived 6 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine IPU
  4. ↑ "House ratifies quota for SC/STs in Assembly, Lok Sabha". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 10 January 2020. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 19 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ↑ "Lok Sabha Election 2019 Phase 3 voting: How to vote without voter ID card". Business Today. 23 April 2019. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "General Voters". Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "The Constitution of India Update" (PDF). Government of India. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "কংগ্রেস ছাড়াই বিরোধী জোট, তৃণমূলের পাশে দাঁড়িয়ে দাবি কেরল সিপিএমের". 9 April 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury calls out Congress on secularism: 'Decide your stand'". Retrieved 13 January 2023. The final draft of the party's political resolution gives thrust on empowering the Left parties as the third alternative.
  10. ↑ "Press Meet". Official Facebook Page of CPI(M) Tripura State. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

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