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Even though BJP had to contend with loss of majority on its own in the 2024 general election, it still retained its government. It also won the Haryana Legislative election in the same year. Several exit polls predicted loss for BJP but the party went on to win the state for a third term. This was the 11th state where they beat anti-incumbency.
Indian National Congress is the only political party in India, which has experience of running the state government of every Indian states in post-independence Indian history. From the first general election in 1952 when Jawaharlal Nehru led it to a landslide victory, the Congress won in the majority of the following state elections and paved ...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body established by the Constitution of India empowered to conduct free and fair elections in India. The Election commission is headed by a Chief Election Commissioner and consists of two other Election Commissioners.
Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar was an Indian independence activist, Gandhian [citation needed] and social worker, best known as the man who defeated B. R. Ambedkar in a general election. [1] A Marathi by birth, he served as a personal assistant to Ambedkar, [ 2 ] before contesting against him in the first Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North ...
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.
Caroline Lucas’s new book proposes that our national storytelling has been hijacked by those on the right – “take back control”, for example, was a far more effective campaign than ...
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson won 3% of the national vote in the 2016 presidential election. While we'll never know if Donald Trump would have lost if it had been a two-person race, an exit ...
The Janata Alliance reminded voters of the excesses and human rights violations during the Emergency, like compulsory sterilisation and imprisonment of political leaders. The Janata campaign said the elections would decide whether India would have "democracy or dictatorship."