On 13 October 2018, Modi was renamed as the BJP candidate for prime minister ahead of the 2019 General Election. The chief campaigner for the party was BJP's president Amit Shah. Modi contested the Lok Sabha elections as a candidate from Varanasi. He won the seat by defeating Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party by a margin of votes. Modi was unanimously appointed the prime minister for a second time by the National Democratic Alliance, after the alliance won the election for the second time by securing 353 seats in the Lok Sabha with the BJP alone winning 303 seats.
2019 Indian general election
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi | 2019 Indian general election
Yes. By securing 353 seats in the Lok Sabha with the BJP alone winning 303 seats. Yes, two consecutive terms with a full majority Yes, he won the 2019 election. Yes, in 2019
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Narendra Damodardas Modi
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Cancelled the Requirement of clearance  from NBA for projects close to wildlife, rRelaxed or Abolished regulations related to Industrial Activity & Modi lifted a moratorium on new industrial activity in the most polluted areas in the countries.
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did he win another term after the first?
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* 23 May 2019: PM Narendra Modi wins a second term with an overwhelming majority.
Timeline of the 2019 Indian general election | Government formation
On 13 October 2018, Modi was renamed as the BJP candidate for prime minister ahead of the 2019 General Election. The chief campaigner for the party was BJP's president Amit Shah. Modi contested the Lok Sabha elections as a candidate from Varanasi. He won the seat by defeating Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party by a margin of votes. Modi was unanimously appointed the prime minister for a second time by the National Democratic Alliance, after the alliance won the election for the second time by securing 353 seats in the Lok Sabha with the BJP alone winning 303 seats.
Narendra Modi | 2019 Indian general election
Modi himself was a candidate for the Lok Sabha in two constituencies: Varanasi and Vadodara. He won in both constituencies, defeating Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi and Madhusudan Mistry of the INC in Vadodara by votes. Modi, who was unanimously elected leader of the BJP, was appointed prime minister by India's president. To comply with the law that an MP cannot represent more than one constituency, he vacated the Vadodara seat.
Narendra Modi | 2014 Indian general election
While campaigning for the 2012 assembly elections, Modi made extensive use of holograms and other technologies allowing him to reach a large number of people, something he would repeat in the 2014 general election. In the 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections, Modi won the constituency of Maninagar by 86,373 votes over Shweta Bhatt, the INC candidate and wife of Sanjiv Bhatt. The BJP won 115 of the 182 seats, continuing its majority during his tenure and allowing the party to form the government (as it had in Gujarat since 1995). In later by-elections the BJP won four more assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats held by the INC, although Modi did not campaign for its candidates.
Narendra Modi | Final years
In the first rounds of elections, Manipur and Punjab resulted in an incumbent government victory; while in Uttar Pradesh and Goa there was a heavy anti-incumbent victory; and Uttarakhand resulted in a hung assembly with an anti-incumbent plurality and in the second round, in Himachal Pradesh, BJP led by incumbent Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal lost due to a huge anti-incumbency wave arising mainly out of corruption and lack of good governance. Congress veteran leader Virbhadra Singh took oath for record sixth term as next Chief Minister. In the western state of Gujarat incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in power since 2002, was running for his fourth term.
2012 elections in India | Introduction
There was initial speculation that the incumbent, Pranab Mukherjee, would seek re-election. However, he decided not to run again in 2017, meaning that his term in office ended on 24 July 2017.
2017 Indian presidential election | Background
Harsh Vardhan again contested the Chandni Chowk seat in Delhi where he defeated Congress candidate Jai Parkash Aggarwal by a margin of 2,28,145 votes. While Vardhan received 52.94% votes, runner-up Aggarwal polled 29.67% votes. On 30 May 2019, Harsh Vardhan was sworn in as a cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term government. He is put in charge of the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.
Harsh Vardhan (Delhi politician) | 2019 Lok Sabha election
These are the Ministers which were part of the First Modi ministry but were not included in the Second Modi ministry. These includes Sushma Swaraj announced in November 2018 to not contest the 2019 General election due to her health related issues. Arun Jaitley also gave his ill health as reason for excluding from ministry. Uma Bharti became National Vice-President of BJP and did not contest the elections.
Second Modi ministry | Outgoing Ministers
Laxmikant Sharma was chosen four times consecutively as BJP M.L.A. from Sironj-Lateri constituency but he lost to Gowardhan Upadhyay an INC candidate in assembly elections of 2013.
Lateri | Politics
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2012 Indian vice presidential election | Result
He retained the seat at the 2nd parliamentary election, held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952, receiving 41.19% of the total vote.
Somaweera Chandrasiri | Introduction
Elected to parliament first in 2010 In the 2020 general elections held on 5th August 2020 he won the highest preferential votes of 205,814 in the Galle district
Ramesh Pathirana | Elections
Post the declaration of election results in May 2019, Modi met the President of India Ram Nath Kovind in May where Kovind invited Modi to form the next government. The BJP had won 303 seats and their alliance National Democratic Alliance won a total of 353 seats in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, the strongest mandate since the 1984 elections where Indian National Congress had won. The BJP then announced that Modi would be sworn in on 30 May 2019 at 7 p.m. For the first time in India, a non-Congress led government has repeated its tenure.
Second swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi | Background
In the 2019 Indian general election, Sawant defeated Deora by more than 100,000 votes. Subsequently, he was made the minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. On 11 November 2019 he had to resign from the Modi government cabinet because of power tussle between Shivsena and BJP
Arvind Sawant | Electoral politics
Kejriwal said in January, prior to his resignation as chief minister, that he would not contest a seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Party members persuaded him to change his mind, and on 25 March, he agreed to contest against the BJP prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, from Varanasi. He lost the contest by a margin of around 3,70,000 votes.
Arvind Kejriwal | 2014 General elections
There was another election in 2038 BS, he was again reelected with huge majority of votes, with about 28,000. After becoming Defence Minister for one year, he became Local Development Minister. After one year, he became Industry Minister. Meantime, he became Health Minister too. In 2040 BS, he remained only NPM during the premiership of Lokendra Bahadur Chand. There was another election during 2043 BS, he was reelected in NPM. After the multiparty democracy in Nepal, in 2051BS, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) from RPP. When Surya Bahadur Thapa became PM, he was appointed as Construction and Transport Minister.
Balaram Gharti Magar | Later politics
In 2014, Modi contested for the two Lok Sabha constituencies: Varanasi and Vadodara. He won in both constituencies, defeating Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi and Madhusudan Mistry of the Indian National Congress in Vadodara. To comply with the law that an elected representative cannot represent more than one constituency, he vacated the Vadodara seat. In 2019 he was again re-elected from Varanasi.
Electoral history of Narendra Modi | Introduction
Immediately after the results were announced, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, In another tweet he added
2017 Indian presidential election | Reactions
On 24 January 2013, following the resignation of Nitin Gadkari due to corruption charges, Singh was re-elected as the BJP's National President. Singh is on record shortly after the law Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was re-instated in 2013, claiming that his party is "unambiguously" in favour of the law, also claiming that "We will state (at an all-party meeting if it is called) that we support Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an unnatural act and cannot be supported." Singh was elected President for his second term after Gadkari stepped down in 2013. Singh played a large role in the BJP's campaign for the 2014 Indian general election, including declaring Narendra Modi the party's Prime Ministerial candidate despite opposition from within the BJP.
Rajnath Singh | Second time (2013–2014)
He became only the second Dalit representative to become president after K. R. Narayanan, and also is the first BJP candidate to be elected to the post. The tally of votes (367,314) polled by Meira Kumar is only the second highest for a losing candidate, that of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy in the 1969 Presidential elections being the highest ever; he received 405,427 votes as against 420,077 by V V Giri, the winner.
Ram Nath Kovind | 2017 presidency campaign
He began second term as a member of parliament from May 2019.
P. V. Midhun Reddy | Second term 2019–2024
Rahul Gandhi won a third term as MP in the Sixteenth Lok Sabha.
Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency) | General election 2014
Indian National Congress party leaders such as Rahul Gandhi and others conceded defeat and congratulated Modi and his party. Other opposition parties and political leaders such as Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee and Omar Abdullah, congratulated PM Modi and BJP for their victory. On 20 November 2019 the Association for Democratic Reforms filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India over alleged ballot-counting discrepancies in the Lok Sabha voting and seeking a probe by the ECI.
2019 Indian general election | National
However, in the 16th general election in May 2014, BJP secured majority on its own (first party to do so since 1984 election) and National Democratic Alliance came into power, with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. In 2019, Narendra Modi got re-elected as Prime Minister for the second time as National Democratic Alliance again secured majority in the 17th general election.
Coalition government | India
Modi claims that his government pursued demonetisation in the national interest, his government has identified and de-registered 338,000 shell companies, identified and recovered in black money since 2014, and almost doubled India's tax base. The Congress party disputes the incumbents' claims, and has alleged that BJP offices have "become hubs of creating black money", and seeks a judicial inquiry into the Rafale deal with France and BJP's role in corruption.
2019 Indian general election | Economic performance
In 2012 Vice presidential election, the Congress-led UPA re-appointed Ansari as their candidate for the post of VP. The NDA nominated Jaswant Singh, former Finance, External Affairs and Defence minister as well as former Leader of Opposition. The NDA cited Ansari's conduct in the Rajya Sabha during The Lokpal Bill, 2011 debate when he had abruptly adjourned the House sine die. Hamid Ansari was re-elected for the second term on 7 August 2012, defeating the NDA's nominee Jaswant Singh by a margin of 252 votes. Ansari was the first person to be re-elected as Indian Vice President after Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1957.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari | Second Term
On 18 April 2014 Noor said he would run for election in the Varanasi constituency in the 2014 Indian general election, competing against Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He said, "Modi is Ravan and is spreading hate across the nation. As a true Indian, I will not allow him to impure the water of the Ganga." In the 2014 elections, with bin Laden dead and strong competition from Modi, neither Paswan nor Lalu Prasad would have anything to do with him. Noor was not offered a ticket by any political party, but was prepared to run as an independent.
Meraj Khalid Noor | 2014 national elections
Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.
Narsingdi-5 | Elections in the 2010s
A critic of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, Pratapgarhi joined the Indian National Congress and contested in 2019 Indian general election from Moradabad, where he lost to S. T. Hasan of Samajwadi Party with a margin of more than half a million votes (590,218 votes).
Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi | Political career
Patel contested and won from Ghatlodiya constituency in the 2012 elections. She won the election with a margin of more than 175,000 votes, the highest in the election. She continued as the cabinet minister of Road and Building, Revenue, Urban Development, and Urban Housing, Disaster Management and Capital Projects.
Anandiben Patel | 2012 – fourth term from Ghatlodiya
In 2009, he lost the general elections to Bharat Ram Meghwal of Congress. In 2014, he defeated Bhanwarlal Meghwal of Congress on the same seat. He served as a Minister of state (MOS) in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from May 2014 to July 2016.
Nihalchand | Political career
In 2013, the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania cancelled a keynote video-conference speech by Modi following protests by Indian-Americans. After his election as prime minister, Modi resigned as the chief minister and as an MLA from Maninagar on 21 May 2014. Anandiben Patel succeeded him as the chief minister.
Narendra Modi | Final years
He further stated that while Deora's statement may not have been fully correct, a "large portion of what he said is correct". Congress members such as Jairam Ramesh, Madan Gopal and Kanishka Singh criticised Rahul Gandhi's aides. Rajnikanth congratulated Narendra Modi on Twitter for his "historic win". The actor also congratulated Jayalalithaa for her party's performance in the election. Tamil actor Dhanush also tweeted congratulations to Modi. Several Bollywood celebrities including Subhash Ghai, Vishal Dadalani, Lata Mangeshkar, Ranvir Shorey, Vivek Oberoi, Baba Sehgal, Shekhar Kapur, Arshad Warsi, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Farhan Akhtar, Karan Johar, Sangeeth Sivan, Kabir Bedi, Anupam Kher, Madhur Bhandarkar, Atul Kasbekar and Pritish Nandy tweeted congratulations to Modi and the BJP for their victory.
2014 Indian general election | Domestic
After the party's landslide victory, Singh resigned the party presidency to assume the position of Home Minister. He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Lucknow constituency and was subsequently elected as a Member of the Parliament.
Rajnath Singh | Second time (2013–2014)
Sanjay Gandhi of the INC won the election, but he died in a plane crash later in the year forcing a by-election in 1981.
Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency) | General election 1980
He was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand for five consecutive terms from 1991 to 2012. He was first elected for the Karnaprayag ward in 1991 and served for three consecutive terms. In 2014, he resigned from the Doiwala, and was elected for Haridwar the Lok Sabha. On 30 May 2019, he was sworn in as Minister of Human Resource Development in the 2nd Modi Government. Following the ministry's name change to the Ministry of Education (India) in July 2020, he served under the title of Minister of Education.
Ramesh Pokhriyal | Political career
Sen was critical of Indian politician Narendra Modi when he was announced as their prime ministerial candidate by the BJP. In April 2014, he said that Modi would not make a good Prime Minister. He conceded later in December 2014 that Modi did give people a sense of faith that things can happen. In February 2015, Sen opted out of seeking a second term for the chancellor post of Nalanda University, stating that the Government of India was not keen on him continuing in the post. In August 2019, during the clampdown and curfew in Kashmir for more than two weeks after the Indian revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, Sen criticized the government and said "As an Indian, I am not proud of the fact that India, after having done so much to achieve a democratic norm in the world – where India was the first non-Western country to go for democracy – that we lose that reputation on the grounds of action that have been taken".
Amartya Sen | Political views
She contested the Mandsaur seat again in 2019 Indian general election but lost to Sudhir Gupta in a repeat of 2014 result.
Meenakshi Natarajan | 2019 Elections
Sometime before the 2013 gubernatorial election, he moved from Golkar to new political party Nasdem, eventually becoming the leader of the provincial office between 2013-2016. After failing to run due to a lack of support from political parties in 2013, he ran again in the 2018 election with the support of Golkar and Nasdem and won, securing 43.68 percent of votes in the 3-candidate race. After the Constitutional Court denied his rivals' disputes regarding the election, he was sworn in on 5 September 2018.
Ali Mazi | Second term
However, he lost to B.A. Jivijaya of the Congress (now with JD(S)) in the next election (2004). Mr. Ranjan came back in the 2008 elections winning from Madikeri constituency. He once again retained the seat by a margin of 4629 votes in 2012 despite an Anti-Incumbency wave against the BJP in the state. He retained the seat again in 2018 by winning by a margin of 16015 votes. Thus he has been elected five times as MLA, thrice from Madikeri and twice from Somwarpet.
Appachu Ranjan | Political career
After the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance won a landslide in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014. He became the first Prime Minister born after India's independence from the British Empire. Modi started his second term after the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance won again in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Modi became the 4th longest serving Prime Minister of India and the longest serving Non-Congress Prime Minister in 2020.
Narendra Modi | Prime Minister
This is a summary of the electoral history of Narendra Modi, who is the incumbent Prime Minister of India since 2014 and served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He currently represents Varanasi as a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament. He contested his first election in February 2002 by-election to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from the Rajkot II constituency. Later that year in 2002 elections he contested from Maninagar and won. He was re-elected from Maninagar in 2007 and 2012 and represented the constituency till 2014 when he became the Prime Minister of India.
Electoral history of Narendra Modi | Introduction
Manmohan Singh tendered his resignation to President Pranab Mukherjee on 17 May. He continued as caretaker Prime Minister, at the request of the President, until 26 May 2014, when Narendra Modi and his cabinet were sworn to office.
2014 Indian general election | Government formation
Despite opposition from the election commissioner, who said that a number of voters were still displaced, Modi succeeded in advancing the election to December 2002. In the elections, the BJP won 127 seats in the 182-member assembly. Although Modi later denied it, he made significant use of anti-Muslim rhetoric during his campaign, and the BJP profited from religious polarisation among the voters. He won the Maninagar constituency, receiving of votes and defeating INC candidate Yatin Oza by 75,333 votes. On 22 December 2002, Bhandari swore Modi in for a second term. Modi framed the criticism of his government for human rights violations as an attack upon Gujarati pride, a strategy which led to the BJP winning two-thirds of the seats in the state assembly.
Narendra Modi | 2002 election
Under his leadership the party improved its seat count from 44 out of 543 in 2014 to 52 out of 542 in 2019. It also boosted its vote from 19.3% to 19.5% in 2019. Rahul Gandhi won the Wayanad seat in the 2019 general elections. However, he lost his existing seat of Amethi to BJP's Smriti Irani by a margin of 55,120 votes.
Rahul Gandhi | Indian general election, 2019
He also resigned from the post of president of GPCC on 20 December 2012 following defeat. He again lost in assembly election in 2017 against BJP's candidate Babu Bokhiria.
Arjun Modhwadia | Political career
When it became clear that the BJP would win the election, Narendra Modi tweeted [that], "India has won! भारत की विजय। अच्छे दिन आने वाले हैं। ["Victory to India. Good days are coming."]" This tweet instantly became India's most retweeted Twitter post. A victory song incorporating the slogan was also released by BJP. The slogan was considered decisive for BJP's victory. But the slogan has also been criticised for inflating expectations that the new government can quickly turn around the economy and spur economic growth. Since the election, the slogan often has been referred to by various people while expressing their optimism about a better future under Modi's government.
Achhe din aane waale hain | Post-election
He was re-elected in a landslide during the 2019 Indian general election.
V. K. Singh | Political career
In the 2019 Indian general election, Supriyo again won from the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate defeating Moon Moon Sen by 1.97 lakh votes, and securing a total of 6.32 lakh votes. In May 2019, he became Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Member of Parliament On 19 September 2019, Supriyo was attacked by students after he was invited to attend an event at Calcutta's Jadavpur University.
Babul Supriyo | Political career
He also won 2013 Assembly election from Bantwal. He has been given the portfolio of Minister for Forest, Environment and Ecology. And has lost to Rajesh Naik of BJP, with margin of 15,000 votes, in 2018 Assembly elections.
Ramanath Rai | Biography
On 20 July 2007, Ansari was named by the UPA-Left, the ruling coalition in India, as its candidate for the post of Vice-President for the upcoming election. When asked, Ansari said he felt "humbled" over the UPA-Left decision naming him as their candidate. "I am humbled by the confidence reposed in me". Ansari refused to say more when asked about his prospects in the August 2007 Vice-Presidential election. Ansari secured 455 votes, and won the election by a margin of 233 votes against his nearest rival Najma Heptullah.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari | First term
In March 2019, Mahagathbandhan, the grand alliance of Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal announced that Verma would contest the upcoming 2019 Indian general election from Shrawasti constituency on the symbol of Bahujan Samaj Party. On 23 May, he was elected to the Lok Sabha after defeating Daddan Mishra, his nearest rival and sitting MP from Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 5,320 votes. Verma was polled 440,944 votes. After getting elected, he said that building a college, repairing roads and demanding an expansion of railways in his constituency were his priorities.
Ram Shiromani Verma | Political career
Nonetheless, Modi retained connections with some Hindu nationalists. Modi wrote a foreword to a textbook by Dinanath Batra released in 2014, which stated that ancient India possessed technologies including test-tube babies. Modi's relationship with Muslims continued to attract criticism. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (who asked Modi for tolerance in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat violence and supported his resignation as chief minister) distanced himself, reaching out to North Indian Muslims before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. After the elections Vajpayee called the violence in Gujarat a reason for the BJP's electoral defeat and said it had been a mistake to leave Modi in office after the riots.
Narendra Modi | Second term
As a result of that, there was a need for the election to be held once again. It was scheduled for 26 October 2017. After the reelection, Uhuru Kenyatta emerged the winner once again. He was sworn in on 28 November 2017 for his second presidential term.
Uhuru Kenyatta | Presidency
Narendra Damodardas Modi ( ; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete more than five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Narendra Modi | Introduction
Sidhu won on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket from the Amritsar seat in the 2004 Indian general elections. After resigning due to a court case against him, he stood again after the ruling stayed. He won a by-election with a good majority. In the 2009 general elections defeating Om Prakash Soni of INC by 6858 votes. This was what Sidhu had to say after not being nominated as party's from Amritsar in the 2014 Indian general election. Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have promised myself never to abandon this place.
Navjot Singh Sidhu | Politics
This time the incumbent Prime minister Indira Gandhi lost to her opponent, the only such instance to date until 2019. But Mrs Gandhi was also elected from Medak. She retained Medak seat and resigned from Rae Bareli.
Raebareli (Lok Sabha constituency) | General Election 1977
The new prime minister elected Navin Ramgoolam, called him "a sitting duck" who is still yearning for power. He remained president until the end of his 5-year term, ending in 2008.
Anerood Jugnauth | First presidential mandate (2003–2008)
Winning from Doiwala again in 2017, he was named the Chief Minister after his party won majority and formed the government.
Trivendra Singh Rawat | Introduction
Gandhi used the slogan ""Chowkidar Chor Hai"" as a jibe against Narendra Modi, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2019 Indian general election. The slogan was aimed at Modi in relation to the alleged irregularities and favouritism in awarding the contracts for the Rafale fighter jet deal. The said case was considered by the Supreme Court of India and after carefully going through all the evidence, the high court dismissed the case and exonerated the current government of India. Rahul Gandhi contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from two constituencies, Amethi, UP and Wayanad, Kerala. He led the election campaign of the Indian National Congress party.
Rahul Gandhi | Indian general election, 2019
Vajpayee resigned as Prime Minister. The UPA, with the outside support of communist parties, formed the next government with Manmohan Singh as the prime minister.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 2004 general election
After nomination for the post of 14th President of India, he resigned from his post as Governor of Bihar, and President of India Pranab Mukherjee accepted his resignation on 20 June 2017. He won election on 20 July 2017. Ram Nath Kovind received 65.65% of the valid votes, against former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar, the presidential candidate of the Opposition who received 34.35%. Kovind received 2,930 votes (From MPs and MLAs) amounting to Electoral College votes of 702,044 (65.65%) as compared to 1,844 votes with a value of 367,314 (34.35%) votes for Meira Kumar lagging far behind with 367,314 votes, and 77 votes were invalid.
Ram Nath Kovind | 2017 presidency campaign
He was one of only three MIC candidates who managed to retain their parliamentary seats in the 2008 general elections. He reelected again in the 2013 general elections. In the 2018 election he lost and failed to retain his parliamentary seat.
Subramaniam Sathasivam | Introduction
He became the first leader since K. Kamaraj to win a re-election as Chief Minister.
M. G. Ramachandran | 1980 Parliament and assembly elections
Harish Rao has won again as the MLA for the Six consecutive time with a whopping majority of 1,20,650 votes in 2018 Elections.
T. Harish Rao | Political career
This was the first time Congress won a seat from Malleshwaram Assembly Constituency after Independence. He won the next assembly election from Malleswaram in the year 2004 defeating his BJP rival Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan with a margin of 11,000 votes. In 2008, he lost the Malleshwaram constituency elections to his nearest rival.
M. R. Seetharam | Political life
Choudhry did not win re-election in 2014.
Shruti Choudhry | Politics
In the 2014 Indian general election, she won the Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh for a second term, retaining her seat by a margin of over 400,000 votes. She became the Minister of External Affairs in the union cabinet on 26 May 2014. Swaraj was called India's "best-loved politician" by the US daily "Wall Street Journal". She decided not to contest the 2019 Indian general election due to health reasons as she was recovering from a kidney transplant and needed to "save herself from dust and stay safe from infection" and hence did not join the second Modi Ministry in 2019.
Sushma Swaraj | Introduction
Rajiv Gandhi won a third term in the election and represented the constituency in the Ninth Lok Sabha.
Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency) | General election 1989
Thapa maintained the position through a parliamentary election in 1981. After serving a further two years, he resigned in 1983 when his government lost a no confidence vote.
Surya Bahadur Thapa | Third term
He retained that position in the 2019 campaign team.
Sudrajat | Politics
Singh did not contest the 2014 general election for the 16th Lok Sabha and resigned his post as prime minister at the end of his term on 17 May 2014. He served as the acting prime minister till 25 May 2014, when Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new prime minister.
Manmohan Singh | 16th Lok Sabha
A presidential election was held in India on 17 July 2017 with the votes counted and the results announced on 20 July 2017. Ram Nath Kovind became 14th President of India. President Pranab Mukherjee, whose term of office was due to expire on 24 July 2017, declined to seek re-election due to health concerns and old age. Governor of Bihar Ram Nath Kovind of the Bharatiya Janata Party had the backing of the governing National Democratic Alliance coalition, and went up against opposition candidate Meira Kumar of the Indian National Congress in the vote. Kovind secured roughly two-thirds of the votes from the electoral college of elected members of federal, state and union territory legislatures and was elected to a five-year term as President.
2017 Indian presidential election | Introduction
When Giri's term ended in 1974, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi chose not to renominate him to the presidency and instead chose Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, who was elected in the presidential election of 1974.
V. V. Giri | President of India
Dipu Moni was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.
Chandpur-3 | Elections in the 2010s
Harsh Vardhan contested the Chandni Chowk seat in Delhi where he defeated the incumbent Union Minister of Law and Justice, Kapil Sibal of the Indian National Congress. He was also appointed in the first Narendra Modi government as Minister of Health and Family Welfare on 26 May 2014. In May 2017, he was given the additional charge of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change following the death of Minister Anil Madhav Dave.
Harsh Vardhan (Delhi politician) | 2014 Lok Sabha election
After the BJP emerged as the majority party in the election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the public in a tweet saying, "Gratitude to the people of India for the continued faith, support and affection for the BJP. This is very humbling & overwhelming." The BJP's UP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya attributed the victory to Modi saying, "It is a Modi wave. The wave which started with 2014 Lok Sabha elections is continuing in 2017 and the momentum will go beyond the 2019 general elections." Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi sent a tweet to Modi congratulating him for his party's victory, to which Modi replied, "Thank you.
2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election | Reactions
Suresh Modi started his career in the 2018 Neem Ka Thana constituency, winning by 66,287 (37.12%) votes.
Suresh Modi | Political career
Following constitutional changes, he was reelected on 6 November 1999 to a seven-year term, officially taking 97% of the vote. On 22 June 2003, he won a referendum that would allow him to run for two more consecutive seven-year terms after his term expired in 2006. The opposition alleges that this amendment was hidden in a way that verged upon electoral fraud. Rahmon was reelected to a seven-year term in a controversial election on 6 November 2006, with about 79% of the vote, according to the official results. On 6 November 2013, he was reelected for the second seven-year term in office, with about 84% of the vote, in an election that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said lacked "genuine choice and meaningful pluralism".
Emomali Rahmon | Politics
Opposition parties have claimed in their election campaign that the unemployment in India has reached crisis levels. The NDA government has denied the existence of any job crisis. Prime minister Narendra Modi claimed that jobs are not lacking but the accurate data on jobs has been lacking.
2019 Indian general election | Unemployment
She contested the 13th vice-presidential election held in August 2007 but lost to Hamid Ansari by 233 votes. She took oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi headed government on 26 May 2014 and was replaced by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in July 2016.
Najma Heptulla | Introduction
Asaduzzaman Noor was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election.
Nilphamari-2 | Elections in the 2010s
The constituents of the National Democratic Alliance and the seats they contested and won are shown at the right in the table: The NDA garnered an overwhelming number of 336 seats in this election. This has propelled it to form the government in the country. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was chosen to lead the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign after a party conclave in Goa. This came amid controversy as L. K. Advani opposed the decision and resigned from his party posts, only to later rescind his resignation. Murli Manohar Joshi and Sushma Swaraj were part of the team for the campaign.
2014 Indian general election | National Democratic Alliance
Rajiv Gandhi won the election, but he was assassinated later in the same year forcing a by-election.
Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency) | General election 1991
He was contested 2019 Indian general election as a candidate of Indian National Congress from North West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. he lost the contest.
Rajesh Lilothia | 2019 Indian general elections
He again retained his seat in the 2006 elections.
Avshalom Vilan | Political career
But afterwards he won the rajya sabha elections. He was general secretary of RJD. From 1992 to 2008 he was elected as member of parliament for continuous 16 years.
Ram Deo Bhandary | Political life
After the delimitation process, he shifted to the newly created Sirsi constituency and won the seat in 2008, 2013 and 2018 elections. He served as MLA for 5 terms in his political career & renowned as a very disciplined politician.
Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri | Introduction
In states such as Uttar Pradesh in which the BJP performed well, it drew exceptionally high support from upper-caste Hindus, although the 10 percent of Muslim votes won was more than it had won before. It performed particularly well in parts of the country that had recently experienced violence between Hindus and Muslims. The magnitude of the BJP's victory led many commentators to say that the election constituted a political realignment away from progressive parties and towards the right-wing. Modi's tweet announcing his victory was described as being emblematic of the political realignment away from a secular, socialist state towards capitalism and Hindu cultural nationalism.
Narendra Modi | 2014 Indian general election
In 1969 UP Legislative Assembly Elections, Chaudhary Charan Singh asked Verma to fight elections from Mallawan constituency, however he lost the election by a mere 996 votes toLalan Sharma from INCAfter this election Verma decided not to contest elections due to his health issues however he continued to serve the people of Hardoi till his death in January 1979.
Mohan Lal Verma | Political life after independence
He was first elected to the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 and then got elected to 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 however, lost to Akhilesh Singh of Samajwadi Party in 1999 General elections. He later, won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. In 2009, he lost again to the Indian National Congress candidate Harsh Vardhan from Maharajganj. In 2014, he won from the same constituency and is now member of 16th Lok Sabha. Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests
Pankaj Choudhary | Politics
He returned to the DMK and won the sear in a by-election in 2009, followed by success in the 2011 state elections. He lost to S. T. K. Jakkaiyan in 2016.
N. Eramakrishnan | Introduction
said by 62% that they would like to see him run from there. A survey of first time voters suggested Modi was the most popular prime ministerial candidate and Mamata Banerjee was the most popular outside the BJP or INC. Latest survey by CNN-IBN-Lokniti predicts the decline (by 5%) in popularity of Narendra Modi as PM candidate.
Opinion polling for the 2014 Indian general election | Other findings
On 3 October 2001 he replaced Patel as Chief Minister of Gujarat, with the responsibility of preparing the BJP for the December 2002 elections. Modi was sworn in as Chief Minister on 7 October 2001, and entered the Gujarat state legislature on 24 February 2002 by winning a by-election to the Rajkot – II constituency, defeating Ashwin Mehta of the INC by 14,728 votes.
Narendra Modi | Taking office
Sharma served as vice-president until 1992, when he was elected President. He received 66% of the votes in the electoral college, defeating George Gilbert Swell. During his last year as president, it was his responsibility to swear in three prime ministers. He didn't run for a second term as president.
Shankar Dayal Sharma | Presidential election
In the first round polls that had concluded on September 13, 2020, Sridharan polled highest with 34% votes, but this was not sufficient to claim an absolute majority and had forced the runoff. Dörner had polled 28% in the first round. Earlier, having expressed his intent to run for second term, he was nominated by the CDU in November 2019. Dörner is expected to assume office on November 1, 2020.
Ashok-Alexander Sridharan | Political career
Modi responded to Rahul Gandhi's Chowkidar Chor Hai jibe by launching a campaign with the slogan ""Main bhi chowkidar"" (, ) for his supporters, inferring that everyone is a fighter against corruption and social evils. Modi even changed the name of his official Twitter handle titled 'Narendra Modi' to 'Chowkidar Narendra Modi'. In a coordinated campaign, ministers, party president Amit Shah and other BJP leaders such as Piyush Goyal changed their Twitter profile names by adding a prefix ""Chowkidar"". Many supporters of BJP also changed their names accordingly. Modi addressed a large group of watchmen on audio link as part of the campaign.
Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2019 Indian general election | Main Bhi Chowkidar
S. P. Singh Baghel of BSP. After completing his two years tenure, Nishad reelected again for Rajya Sabha till 2022 in July 2016.
Vishambhar Prasad Nishad | Political career
The Election Commission of India held the second presidential elections of India on May 6, 1957. Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his re-election with 459,698 votes over his nearest rival Chowdhry Hari Ram.
1957 elections in India | Presidential election
Sridhar Babu won on the Congress ticket from Manthani in the 1999 elections, though his Congress party was relegated to sitting in the opposition. He defeated his nearest rival, C. Rami Reddy of the Telugu Desam Party, by a margin of over 15,000 votes.
Sridhar Babu | First term (1999–2004)