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The electoral history of the BJP and its predecessors in general elections The Bharatiya Janata Party is a political party in India . The following article contains the performance history of the organization in the elections, they have contested after their formation.
Following the election in 1996, the BJP became the largest party in the Lok Sabha for the first time, but the government it formed was short-lived. [52] In the elections of 1998 and 1999, it remained the largest party, and headed the ruling coalition on both occasions. [53] In the 2014 general election, it won an outright majority in parliament.
Singh took office as BJP president in December 2005 for the remainder of Advani's term. He was reappointed for a full term in 2006. Singh had held many positions for the RSS and the BJP, including serving as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and the president of the BJP's youth wing. He advocated a return to a Hindutva platform.
The 1998 general elections again put the BJP ahead of others. A number of political parties joined the BJP to form the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and Vajpayee was sworn in as the prime minister. [56] The coalition was an uneasy one, [33] as apart from the Shiv Sena, none of the other parties espoused the BJP's Hindu-nationalist ...
In 2004 under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and 2009, under the leadership of L. K. Advani as the prime ministerial candidate and lost both elections. In 2014, 2019 and 2024 the alliance had Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, won the elections with a great majority, and formed the government.
The Central Election Committee, is also set up by the National Executive, and consist of the 11 members of the Parliamentary Board and 8 other members [a] [13] elected by the National Executive. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] [ 14 ] The role of the CEC is to select candidates for all Legislative and Parliamentary elections throughout India.
In 2016 Assembly election the BJP in an alliance with GJM contested 291 seats and got 5,555,134 (10.16%) votes and created history by winning 3 assembly seats for the first time. [ 31 ] There was a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 Lok Sabha election in West Bengal .
[12] They won 19 seats in the 2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, although the ruling Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party, [13] [14] NEDA did well in 2023 assembly elections without any pre-poll alliances. The party won 26 seats, and formed a government supported by BJP and other NEDA members. [15]