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{{About||the upper house|Rajya Sabha|current list of Lok Sabha members|List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha}}

{{Infobox legislature

| name              = Lok Sabha

| coa_pic            = Lok Sabha.svg

| coa_caption        =

| coa_alt            =  

| house_type        = Lower house

| party1            = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]

| election1          = [[2019 Indian general election|19 June 2019]]

| leader3_type      = [[Secretary General of the Lok Sabha|Secretary General]]

| leader3            = Utpal Kumar Singh

| election3          = 30 November 2020

| party4            = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]

| election4          = [[2014 Indian general election|26 May 2014]]

| party5            = [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]

| election5          = [[2014 Indian general election|26 May 2014]]

| seats              = '''543'''

| structure1        = 17 th Lok Sabha Updated August 2022.svg

| structure1_alt    = Lok Sabha

| political_groups1  =  

* {{Party legend|Shiv Sena|13}}

* {{Party legend|Apna Dal (Sonelal)|2}}

* {{Party legend|All Jharkhand Students Union|1}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=NDA declare candidate for Ramgarh| url=https://www.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/story-nda-nominates-sunita-chowdhary-as-candidate-for-ramgarh-bypoll-in-jharkhand-7718606.amp.html}}</ref>

* {{Party legend|Mizo National Front|1}}

* {{Party legend|National People's Party (India)|1}}

* {{Party legend|Sikkim Krantikari Morcha|1}}

* {{Party legend|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|24}}

* {{Party legend|Janata Dal (United)|16}}

* {{Party legend|Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)|6}}

* {{Party legend|Nationalist Congress Party|4}}

* {{Party legend|Indian Union Muslim League|3}}

* {{Party legend|Jammu & Kashmir National Conference|3}}

* {{Party legend|Jharkhand Mukti Morcha|1}}

* {{Party legend|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|1}}

* {{Party legend|Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi|1}}

* {{Party legend|YSR Congress Party|22}}

* {{Party legend|Biju Janata Dal|12}}

* {{Party legend|Bharat Rashtra Samithi|9}}

* {{Party legend|Telugu Desam Party|3}}

* {{Party legend|All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen|2}}

* {{Party legend|Shiromani Akali Dal|2}}

* {{Party legend|Janata Dal (Secular)|1}}

* {{Party legend|Rashtriya Loktantrik Party|1}}

* {{Party legend|Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)|1}}

| voting_system1    = [[First-past-the-post voting|First past the post]]

| first_election1    = [[1951–52 Indian general election|25 Oct 1951 – 21 Feb 1952]]  

| last_election1    = [[2019 Indian general election|11 April – 19 May 2019]]

| next_election1    = [[Next Indian general election|May 2024]]

| session_alt        =

| constitution      = [[Constitution of India]]

| rules              = [http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/rules/RULES-2010-P-FINAL_1.pdf The Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha] (English)

| website            = {{url|loksabha.nic.in/}}

The maximum membership of the House allotted by the [[Constitution of India]] is 552<ref>{{cite web|title=Lok Sabha|url=https://loksabha.nic.in/ls.htm|access-date=12 February 2022|website=loksabha.nic.in}}</ref> (Initially, in 1950, it was 500). Currently, the house has 543 seats which are made up by the election of up to 543 elected members and at a maximum. Between 1952 and 2020, [[Anglo-Indian reserved seats in the Lok Sabha|2 additional members]] of the [[Anglo-Indian]] community were also nominated by the President of India on the advice of [[Government of India]], which was abolished in January 2020 by the [[One Hundred and Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India|104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/constitution-104th-amendment-act-to-come-into-force-151919|title=Anglo Indian Representation To Lok Sabha, State Assemblies Done Away; SC-ST Reservation Extended For 10 Years: Constitution (104th Amendment) Act To Come Into Force On 25th Jan|website=livelaw.in|access-date=25 January 2020|date=23 January 2020|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112184618/https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/constitution-104th-amendment-act-to-come-into-force-151919|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend104.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212051446/https://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend104.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2019 |url-status=dead |access-date=29 February 2020}}{{dead link|date=July 2022|reason=could not access even archive snapshot}}</ref> The new parliament has a seating capacity of 888 for Lok Sabha.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Shankar|first1=B.L.|title=The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha|date=13 January 2011|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067726.003.0008|work=The Indian Parliament|pages=292–328|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=12 February 2022|last2=Rodrigues|first2=Valerian|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067726.003.0008|isbn=978-0-19-806772-6}}</ref>

An exercise to redraw Lok Sabha constituencies' boundaries is carried out by the Boundary [[Delimitation Commission of India]] every decade based on the [[Census of India|Indian census]], last of which was conducted in [[2011 Census of India|2011]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scroll.in/article/807644/a-decade-from-now-three-states-will-contribute-a-third-of-lok-sabha-mps|title=A decade from now, three states will contribute a third of Lok Sabha MPs|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508112100/http://scroll.in/article/807644/a-decade-from-now-three-states-will-contribute-a-third-of-lok-sabha-mps|archive-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> This exercise earlier also included redistribution of seats among states based on demographic changes but that provision of the mandate of the commission was suspended in 1976 following a [[Constitution of India#Amendments|constitutional amendment]] to incentivize the family planning program which was being implemented.<ref>[http://www.eci.gov.in/ElectoralSystem/electoral_system.asp Election Commission India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105005609/http://www.eci.gov.in/ElectoralSystem/electoral_system.asp|date=5 January 2007}}</ref> The [[17th Lok Sabha]] was elected in May 2019 and is the latest to date.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/election-results-2019-at-evening-meet-pm-modi-to-chalk-out-action-plan-for-next-few-days-2042484|title=PM Modi's New Cabinet Could See Prestige Posts For Smriti Irani, Bengal|website=NDTV.com|access-date=24 May 2019|archive-date=24 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524113003/https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/election-results-2019-at-evening-meet-pm-modi-to-chalk-out-action-plan-for-next-few-days-2042484|url-status=live}}</ref>

== History ==

Notes:

#The expression "population" while distributing seats among states refers to the population ascertained at the [[Census of India|census]] of 1971, per the Constitutional Amendment of 1976.<ref>https://www.india.gov.in/sites/upload_files/npi/files/coi_part_full.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422232838/https://www.india.gov.in/sites/upload_files/npi/files/coi_part_full.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} article 81</ref>

== Powers ==

As of 26 January 2020, the Lok Sabha is composed of 543 members

{| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:left;"

|-

{{Main|List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha}}

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" style="text-align:center;"

! Leader of the Party

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

| [[Narendra Modi]]

|-

| 2

| [[Anupriya Patel]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party}}

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}

|

*[[Sumalatha]]

|-  

| {{Party name with colour|Indian National Congress}}

| [[Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury]]

|-

| 23

| [[Sudip Bandyopadhyay]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Janata Dal (United)}}

| 16

| [[Lalan Singh|Rajiv Ranjan]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)}}

| 3

| [[E. T. Mohammed Basheer]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Jharkhand Mukti Morcha}}

| 1

| [[Vijay Hansdak]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}

| [[N. K. Premachandran|Premchandran]]

|-

|-

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Telugu Desam Party}}

| 3

| [[Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu|K Ram Mohan Naidu]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Shiromani Akali Dal}}

|1

| [[Simranjit Singh Mann]]

|-

| {{Party name with colour|Janata Dal (Secular)}}

| [[Hanuman Beniwal|H. Beniwal]]

|-

| 1

|

| style="background:{{Party color|Casual vacancy}};" |

| {{Party name with colour|Casual vacancy}}

|  

|-

! colspan="4" |Total

== External links ==

* [http://loksabha.nic.in/ Lok Sabha website]

* [https://eci.gov.in/general-election/general-elections-2019/ General Elections 2019]

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