1999 elections in India
| ← 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 → | |
| Incumbent Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (NDA) |
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| Next Lok Sabha | 13th |
| Rajya Sabha elections | |
| Overall control | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Seats contested | TBD |
| Net seat change | TBD |
| Lok Sabha elections | |
| Seats contested | 543 |
| State elections | |
| States contested | 6 |
| Net state change | TBD |
| This article is part of a series on the |
| Politics of India |
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The 1999 elections in India include the 1999 Indian general election, Rajya Sabha election and various State Assembly elections.
General election
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
| Indian National Congress | 103,120,330 | 28.30 | 114 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 86,562,209 | 23.75 | 182 | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 19,695,767 | 5.40 | 33 | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 15,175,845 | 4.16 | 14 | |
| Samajwadi Party | 13,717,021 | 3.76 | 26 | |
| Telugu Desam Party | 13,297,370 | 3.65 | 29 | |
| Janata Dal (United) | 11,282,084 | 3.10 | 21 | |
| Rashtriya Janata Dal | 10,150,492 | 2.79 | 7 | |
| All India Trinamool Congress | 9,363,785 | 2.57 | 8 | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 8,260,311 | 2.27 | 8 | |
| All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 7,046,953 | 1.93 | 10 | |
| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 6,298,832 | 1.73 | 12 | |
| Shiv Sena | 5,672,412 | 1.56 | 15 | |
| Communist Party of India | 5,395,119 | 1.48 | 4 | |
| Biju Janata Dal | 4,378,536 | 1.20 | 10 | |
| Janata Dal (Secular) | 3,332,702 | 0.91 | 1 | |
| Pattali Makkal Katchi | 2,377,741 | 0.65 | 5 | |
| Shiromani Akali Dal | 2,502,949 | 0.69 | 2 | |
| Tamil Maanila Congress | 2,058,636 | 0.56 | 0 | |
| Indian National Lok Dal | 2,002,700 | 0.55 | 5 | |
| Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 1,620,527 | 0.44 | 4 | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1,500,817 | 0.41 | 3 | |
| Rashtriya Lok Dal | 1,364,030 | 0.37 | 2 | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 1,288,060 | 0.35 | 2 | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 1,220,698 | 0.33 | 1 | |
| Asom Gana Parishad | 1,182,061 | 0.32 | 0 | |
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 974,609 | 0.27 | 0 | |
| Muslim League Kerala State Committee | 833,562 | 0.23 | 2 | |
| Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress | 818,713 | 0.22 | 2 | |
| Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh | 692,559 | 0.19 | 1 | |
| Apna Dal | 848,662 | 0.23 | 0 | |
| Bihar People's Party | 607,810 | 0.17 | 0 | |
| Puthiya Tamilagam | 568,196 | 0.16 | 0 | |
| Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | 454,481 | 0.12 | 4 | |
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | 448,165 | 0.12 | 1 | |
| MGR Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 396,216 | 0.11 | 1 | |
| Kerala Congress | 365,313 | 0.10 | 1 | |
| Kerala Congress (M) | 357,402 | 0.10 | 1 | |
| Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann) | 298,846 | 0.08 | 1 | |
| Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | 297,337 | 0.08 | 1 | |
| Peasants and Workers Party of India | 282,583 | 0.08 | 1 | |
| Himachal Vikas Congress | 264,002 | 0.07 | 1 | |
| Manipur State Congress Party | 222,417 | 0.06 | 1 | |
| Republican Party of India | 505,664 | 0.14 | 0 | |
| Ajeya Bharat Party | 430,275 | 0.12 | 0 | |
| Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal | 406,421 | 0.11 | 0 | |
| Marxist Co-ordination Committee | 351,839 | 0.10 | 0 | |
| Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress | 338,278 | 0.09 | 0 | |
| United Reservation Movement Council of Assam | 246,942 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| Anna Telugu Desam Party | 244,045 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| Democratic Bahujan Samaj Morcha | 236,962 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| Haryana Vikas Party | 188,731 | 0.05 | 0 | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 107,828 | 0.03 | 1 | |
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party | 180,804 | 0.05 | 0 | |
| People's Democratic Front | 172,434 | 0.05 | 0 | |
| Janata Party | 167,649 | 0.05 | 0 | |
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan) | 154,433 | 0.04 | 0 | |
| Mahabharat People's Party | 145,192 | 0.04 | 0 | |
| National Loktantrik Party | 136,385 | 0.04 | 0 | |
| Marxist Communist Party of India (S.S. Srivastava) | 120,220 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| United Democratic Party | 107,197 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| Jharkhand Party (Naren) | 101,441 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 86,466 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha | 73,012 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Sadbhavana Party | 71,279 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Arunachal Congress | 70,760 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) | 61,635 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Jharkhand Party | 57,676 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Champaran Vikas Party | 56,561 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bharatiya Sena | 56,249 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| United Minorities Front, Assam | 53,661 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Lok Shakti | 40,997 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Republican Paksha | 40,636 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Hill State People's Democratic Party | 40,301 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar) | 39,494 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party | 36,920 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Jan Congress | 34,552 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| People's Democratic Movement | 33,164 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Bhartiya Jana Congress (Rashtriya) | 32,871 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Pyramid Party of India | 31,699 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Socialist Republican Party | 30,779 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Federal Party of Manipur | 30,039 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Jammu and Kashmir Awami League | 28,889 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Amra Bangali | 25,408 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Tamil Desiyak Katchi | 25,209 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Loktantrik Samajwadi Party | 23,630 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) | 20,523 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 19,596 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| National Minorities Party | 19,344 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Shoshit Samaj Dal | 19,330 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party | 15,888 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha | 15,526 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Uttarakhand Kranti Dal | 14,302 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha | 14,157 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Republican Party of India (Athawale) | 14,098 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Majlis Bachao Tahreek | 13,461 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Sirpanch Samaj Party | 13,437 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Chhattisgarhi Samaj Party | 13,097 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Parivartan Samaj Party | 12,820 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| United Goans Democratic Party | 11,153 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Jan Satta Party | 11,024 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Savarn Samaj Party | 10,906 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| All India Muslim Forum | 10,010 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Maraland Democratic Front | 8,444 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| United Tribal Nationalists Liberation Front | 8,429 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| United Bodo Nationalist Liberation Front | 7,611 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Samaj Dal | 7,607 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Ambedkar Samaj Party | 7,260 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bharatiya Berozgaar Party | 7,134 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bartiya Manav Seva Dal | 6,761 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Rajasthan Vikash Party | 6,258 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Awami Party | 5,050 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| All India Gareeb Congress | 4,861 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Gareebjan Samaj Party | 4,725 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Garo National Council | 4,561 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Humanist Party of India | 4,192 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Rashtriya Unnatsheel Das | 4,104 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Shoshit Samaj Party | 4,080 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Naujawan Dal | 3,895 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Dhiravida Thelgar Munnetra Kalagam | 3,748 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Maharashtra Rashtravadi Congress | 3,579 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Maharashtra Pradesh Krantikari Party | 3,571 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bira Oriya Party | 3,120 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bahujan Kranti Dal (JAI) | 3,090 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| All India Rajiv Krantikari Congress | 2,993 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Sanatan Samaj Party | 2,932 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bhartiya Lok Kalyan Dal | 2,896 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Berozgar Mazdoor Kisan Dal | 2,706 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Tharasu Makkal Mandram | 2,675 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Gujarat Yuva Vikas Party | 2,217 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Minorities Suraksha Mahasangh | 2,151 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bhartiya Janata Vikas Party | 1,981 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharat Dal | 1,832 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Hind Vikas Party | 1,641 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Tamil Nadu Peasants and Workers Party | 1,631 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Ephraim Union | 1,578 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| National Organisation Congress | 1,566 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Manav Kalyan Sangh Dal | 1,517 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Rasik Bhatt) | 1,516 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| All J & K Peoples Patriotic Front | 1,500 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Kamjor Varg Sangh, Bihar | 1,481 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| United Citizens Party | 1,414 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Rashtriya Sawarn Dal | 1,407 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Goa Vikas Party | 1,407 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bharatiya Manav Adhikar Dal | 1,333 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bhartiya Loktantra Party | 1,265 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Labour and Job Seeker's Party of India | 1,227 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bahujan Kranti Dal | 1,218 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Secular Party of India | 1,180 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Rashtriya Aikta Manch | 1,169 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Gandhiwadi Rashtriya Congress | 1,163 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Pragati Sheel Party | 858 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharat Nav Jyoti Sangh | 806 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| All India Minorities Front | 805 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bahujan Ekta Party (R) | 783 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Momin Front | 737 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Indian National Green Party | 594 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Jan Vikas Party | 571 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Ambedkarbadi Party | 543 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Parivartan Morcha | 508 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Rashtriya Mazdoor Ekta Party | 437 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Christian Mannetra Kazhagam | 385 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatha Makkal Congress | 384 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Rashtriya Dharmanirpeksha Nava Bharat Party | 384 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Kranti Dal | 344 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Bharatiya Muhabbat Party (All India) | 338 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Akhil Bharatiya Shivsena Rashtrawadi | 244 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| National Congress Of Youth | 179 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Desh Bhakt Party | 173 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Independents | 9,996,386 | 2.74 | 6 | |
| Nominated Anglo-Indians | 2 | |||
| Total | 364,437,294 | 100.00 | 545 | |
| Valid votes | 364,437,294 | 98.05 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 7,231,810 | 1.95 | ||
| Total votes | 371,669,104 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 619,536,847 | 59.99 | ||
| Source: ECI[1] | ||||
State and Alliance wise
Overall Result
| Date(s) | State | Government before | Chief Minister before | Government after | Elected Chief Minister | Maps | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June 1999 | Goa | Indian National Congress | Luizinho Faleiro | Indian National Congress | Luizinho Faleiro | | ||
| 4, 11, 17 September 1999 | Andhra Pradesh | Telugu Desam Party | N. Chandrababu Naidu | Telugu Desam Party | N. Chandrababu Naidu | | ||
| 5, 11 September 1999 | Maharashtra | Shiv Sena | Narayan Rane | Indian National Congress | Vilasrao Deshmukh | | ||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | Nationalist Congress Party | |||||||
| 3 October 1999 | Arunachal Pradesh | Arunachal Congress | Gegong Apang | Indian National Congress | Mukut Mithi | | ||
| Karnataka | Janata Dal (United) | J. H. Patel | Indian National Congress | S. M. Krishna | | |||
| Sikkim | Sikkim Democratic Front | Pawan Kumar Chamling | Sikkim Democratic Front | Pawan Kumar Chamling | | |||
Legislative Assembly elections
Andhra Pradesh
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance/Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| NDA | Telugu Desam Party | 14,613,307 | 43.87 | 269 | 180 | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 1,223,481 | 3.67 | 24 | 12 | |||||
| Total | 15,836,788 | 47.54 | N/A | 293 | 192 | N/A | |||
| Indian National Congress | 13,526,309 | 40.61 | 293 | 91 | |||||
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | 360,211 | 1.08 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| LF | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 567,761 | 1.70 | 48 | 2 | ||||
| Communist Party of India | 539,700 | 1.62 | 45 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 1,107,461 | 3.32 | N/A | 93 | 2 | N/A | |||
| Other parties | 885,832 | 2.67 | N/A | 658 | 0 | N/A | |||
| Independents | 1,593,015 | 4.78 | 762 | 5 | |||||
| Total | 33,309,616 | 100.00 | N/A | 2,104 | 294 | N/A | |||
| Vote statistics | |||||||||
| Valid votes | 33,309,616 | 97.05 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | 1,011,948 | 2.95 | |||||||
| Votes cast/ turnout | 34,334,842 | 69.15 | |||||||
| Abstentions | 15,319,547 | 30.85 | |||||||
| Registered voters | 49,654,389 | ||||||||
Arunachal Pradesh
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Indian National Congress | 213,097 | 51.78 | 53 | ||
| Arunachal Congress | 68,645 | 16.68 | 1 | – | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 44,556 | 10.83 | 0 | – | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 35,967 | 8.74 | 4 | – | |
| Ajeya Bharat Party | 425 | 0.10 | 0 | – | |
| Independents | 48,842 | 11.87 | 2 | – | |
| Total | 411,532 | 100.00 | 60 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 411,532 | 96.99 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 12,770 | 3.01 | |||
| Total votes | 424,302 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 611,481 | 69.39 | |||
| Source: ECI[2] | |||||
Goa
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Party | Seats Contested | Seats Won | ||||||
| 1 | Indian National Congress | 40 | 21 | ||||||
| 2 | Bharatiya Janata Party | 39 | 10 | ||||||
| 3 | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak | 17 | 4 | ||||||
| 4 | United Goans Democratic Party | 11 | 2 | ||||||
| 5 | Goa Rajiv Congress Party | 14 | 2 | ||||||
| 6 | Independent | 49 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 40 | ||||||||
Karnataka
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parties | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | +pp | Contested | Won | +/- | |||||||
| Indian National Congress | 90,77,815 | 40.84 | 222 | 132 | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 45,98,741 | 20.69 | 149 | 44 | ||||||||
| Janata Dal (United) | 30,06,253 | 13.53 | 112 | 18 | ||||||||
| Janata Dal (Secular) | 23,16,885 | 10.42 | 203 | 10 | ||||||||
| Independent | 26,66,444 | 12.00 | 476 | 19 | ||||||||
| Others | 5,59,361 | 2.52 | 179 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 2,22,25,499 | 100.00 | 1,341 | 224 | ±0 | |||||||
| Valid votes | 2,22,25,499 | 95.88 | ||||||||||
| Invalid votes | 9,56,294 | 4.12 | ||||||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 2,31,94,283 | 67.65 | ||||||||||
| Abstentions | 1,10,89,815 | 32.35 | ||||||||||
| Registered voters | 3,42,84,098 | |||||||||||
Maharashtra
| Political Party | Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contested | Won | Change +/- | Votes polled | Votes% | Change +/- | ||
| Indian National Congress 75 / 288 (26%) | 249 | 75 | 8,937,043 | 27.20% | |||
| Shiv Sena 69 / 288 (24%) | 161 | 69 | 5,692,812 | 17.33% | |||
| Nationalist Congress Party 58 / 288 (20%) | 223 | 58 | 7,425,427 | 22.60% | |||
| Bharatiya Janata Party 56 / 288 (19%) | 117 | 56 | 4,776,301 | 14.54% | |||
| Peasants and Workers Party of India 5 / 288 (2%) | 22 | 5 | 490,535 | 1.49% | |||
| Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh 3 / 288 (1%) | 34 | 3 | 606,827 | 1.85% | |||
| Janata Dal (Secular) 2 / 288 (0.7%) | 25 | 2 | 497,127 | 1.51% | |||
| Samajwadi Party 2 / 288 (0.7%) | 15 | 2 | 227,640 | 0.69% | |||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) 2 / 288 (0.7%) | 23 | 2 | 210,030 | 0.64% | |||
| Republican Party of India 1 / 288 (0.3%) | 10 | 1 | 226,481 | 0.69% | |||
| Gondwana Ganatantra Party 1 / 288 (0.3%) | 16 | 1 | 67,138 | 0.20% | |||
| Native People's Party 1 / 288 (0.3%) | 1 | 1 | 63,931 | 0.19% | |||
| Samajwadi Janata Party (Maharashtra) 1 / 288 (0.3%) | 5 | 1 | 43,870 | 0.13% | |||
| Maharashtra Vikas Congress | 2 | 0 | 31,173 | 0.09% | |||
| Nag Vidarbha Andolan Samiti | 4 | 0 | 26,966 | 0.08% | |||
| Independents 12 / 288 (4%) | 837 | 12 | 3,116,564 | 9.49% | |||
| Total | 2006 | 288 | 32,856,693 | 60.95% | |||
Sikkim
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 107,214 | 52.32 | 24 | ||
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 85,827 | 41.88 | 7 | ||
| Indian National Congress | 7,512 | 3.67 | 0 | ||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 398 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 3,976 | 1.94 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 204,927 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 204,927 | 98.06 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 4,056 | 1.94 | |||
| Total votes | 208,983 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 255,377 | 81.83 | |||
| Source: CEO Sikkim | |||||
Legislative By-elections
| Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1 | Langate | 40.62% | Mohammed Sultan Pandit | Independent | 4,537 | 25.91% | Bashir Ahmad Wani | JKNC | 4,465 | 21.8% | 72 | ||
| 2 | Srigufwara–Bijbehara | 15.8% | Abdul Rehman | Independent | 3,756 | 29.07% | Rafi Ahmad Mir | JKNC | 2,506 | 2.38% | 1,250 | ||
Rajya Sabha election
References
- ^ "General Election, 1999 (Vol I, II, III)". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Key Statistics - Bye Elections - Sept. - Oct. 1999". eci.gov.in. Election Commission Of India. Retrieved 1 January 2025.












