Modi’s coalition would maintain the absolute majority but his party would need support in the face of the opposition advance

The BJP would obtain 243 seats and its coalition would add 297, 51 less than in the 2019 parliamentary elections

June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Indian People’s Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is leading in the legislative elections with nearly 38.9 percent of the ballots, while his coalition would gain an absolute majority in the Indian Parliament. , according to data published by the electoral commission after the recount of about a quarter of the votes.

In this way, the BJP would have taken 38.86 percent of the votes after collecting nearly 109 million votes, which would give it 243 seats. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would thus obtain 297 seats, above the 272 necessary for an absolute majority.

This coalition, with right-wing and conservative overtones, would thus manage to maintain its absolute majority in the legislature, although it would lose 51 seats compared to 2019, a situation caused by the rise of the center-left coalition Inclusive Alliance for the National Development of India (INDIA ).

The coalition, made up of about 25 parties that have joined forces to confront Modi, is on track to obtain 228 seats, which would be 98 more than those obtained by the parties that comprise it during the last elections, according to data collected by the electoral commission through its website.

INDIA’s main party, the Indian National Congress (INC), would have won around 25 percent of the votes, which would translate into 95 seats, 42 more than in 2019. In addition, the Socialist Party would add 3 .83 percent of the ballots, for a total of 36 seats, an increase of 28 compared to the last elections.

The government coalition would suffer setbacks in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu, where INDIA would accumulate a greater number of seats, although it would prevail in others such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and the capital, Delhi, where there would be seven seats at stake.

Thus, Modi’s NDA would maintain the absolute majority in Parliament, although far from the expectations of the prime minister, who launched his campaign with the objective of reaching 400 seats – of the total of 543 that make up the Lok Sabha -, something that some of the polls reflected.

In fact, the BJP would not obtain the absolute majority of seats on its own and would need the support of other parties, something unprecedented in Modi’s two previous mandates, given that his party obtained 303 parliamentarians in 2019 and 282 in 2014. Despite Therefore, he appears as the main favorite to be Prime Minister of India again.

Around 642 million people participated in the parliamentary elections over the 44 days that the elections lasted, which concluded on Saturday. The vote lasted for 44 days and included an unprecedented number of voters, among whom there were 312 million women, according to local media.