Electoral history of the Bharatiya Janata Party

Last updated October 10, 2024

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.

Lok Sabha

Year	Legislature	Party leader	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Outcome	Ref.
1984	8th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	229	2 / 541	2	7.74%	–	Opposition	^[1]^[2]
1989	9th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	225	85 / 545	83	11.36%	3.62%	Outside support for NF	^[3]
1991	10th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	477	120 / 545	35	20.11%	8.75%	Opposition	^[4]
1996	11th Lok Sabha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	471	161 / 545	41	20.29%	0.18%	Government, later opposition	^[5]
1998	12th Lok Sabha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	388	182 / 545	21	25.59%	5.30%	Coalition	^[6]
1999	13th Lok Sabha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	339	182 / 545		23.75%	1.84%	Coalition	^[7]
2004	14th Lok Sabha	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	364	138 / 543	44	22.16%	1.69%	Opposition	^[8]
2009	15th Lok Sabha	Lal Krishna Advani	433	116 / 543	22	18.80%	3.36%	Opposition	^[9]
2014	16th Lok Sabha	Narendra Modi	425	282 / 543	166	31.34%	12.54%	Government	^[10]
2019	17th Lok Sabha	Narendra Modi	437	303 / 543	21	37.46%	6.12%	Government	^[11]
2024	18th Lok Sabha	Narendra Modi	441	240 / 543	63	36.56%	0.9%	Coalition

Andhra Pradesh

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1983	294	80	3	-	582,464	2.76	-
1985	294	10	8	5	372,978	1.62	1.14
1989	294	12	5	3	512,305	1.78	0.16
1994	294	280	3	2	1,210,878	3.89	2.11
1999	294	24	12	9	1,223,481	3.67	0.22
2004	294	27	2	10	942,008	2.63	1.04
2009	294	271	2		1,192,814	2.84	0.21
2014	294	58	9	7	2,000,677	4.13	1.29
After the state's bifurcation in 2014
2019	175	173	0	4	264,437	0.84	-
2024	175	10	8	8	953,977	2.83	1.99

Arunachal Pradesh

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1984	30	6	1	-	17,283	7.69	-
1990	60	Not Contested
1995	60	15	0		14,335	3.37	-
1999	60	23	0		44,556	10.83	7.46
2004	60	39	9	9	87,312	19.0	8.17
2009	60	18	3	6	29,929	5.21	13.79
2014	60	42	11	8	157,412	30.97	25.76
2019	60	60	41	30	315,540	50.86	19.89
2024	60	60	46	5	332,773	54.57	3.71

Assam

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1983	126	Not Contested
1985	126	37	0	-	79,068	1.07	-
1991	126	48	10	10	548,271	6.55	5.48
1996	126	117	4	6	946,236	10.41	4.93
2001	126	46	8	4	995,004	9.35	1.06
2006	126	125	10	2	1,581,925	11.98	2.63
2011	126	120	5	5	1,584,895	11.47	0.51
2016	126	89	60	55	4,992,185	29.51	18.04
2021	126	93	60		6,384,538	33.21	3.7

Bihar

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	324	246	21	-	1,891,325	8.41	-
1985	324	234	16	5	1,833,275	7.54	0.87
1990	324	237	39	23	3,721,392	11.61	4.07
1995	324	315	41	2	4,480,363	12.96	1.35
2000	324	168	67	26	5,424,687	14.64	1.68
After the state's bifurcation in 2000
2005 (FEB)	243	103	37	-	2,686,290	10.97	-
2005 (OCT)	243	102	55	18	3,686,720	15.65	4.68
2010	243	102	91	36	4,790,436	16.49	0.84
2015	243	157	53	38	9,308,015	24.42	7.93
2020	243	110	74	21	8,202,067	19.46	4.96

Chhattisgarh

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
2003	90	90	50	-	3,789,914	39.26	-
2008	90	90	50		4,333,934	40.33	1.07
2013	90	90	49	1	5,365,272	41.04	0.71
2018	90	90	15	34	4,706,830	32.97	8.07
2023	90	90	54	39	7,234,968	46.27	13.33

Delhi

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1993	70	70	49	-	1,520,675	42.82	-
1998	70	67	15	34	1,390,689	34.02	8.8
2003	70	70	20	5	1,589,323	35.22	1.2
2008	70	69	23	3	2,244,629	36.34	1.12
2013	70	68	31	8	2,604,100	33.07	3.27
2015	70	69	3	28	2,890,485	32.19	0.88
2020	70	67	8	5	3,575,529	38.51	6.32

Goa

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1984	30	16	0	-	4915	1.21	-
1989	40	7	0		1985	0.39	0.82
1994	40	12	4	4	52,094	9.05	8.66
1999	40	39	10	6	150,959	26.15	17.1
2002	40	39	17	7	226,350	35.57	9.42
2007	40	33	14	3	215,605	30.32	5.25
2012	40	28	21	7	294,392	34.68	4.36
2017	40	36	13	8	297,588	32.48	2.2
2022	40	40	20	7	316,573	33.3	0.82

Gujarat

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	182	127	9	-	1,090,652	14.02	-
1985	182	124	11	2	1,379,120	14.96	0.94
1990	182	143	67	56	3,386,256	26.69	11.73
1995	182	182	121	54	7,672,401	42.51	15.82
1998	182	182	117	4	7,300,826	44.81	2.3
2002	182	182	127	10	10,194,353	49.85	5.04
2007	182	182	117	10	10,739,972	49.12	0.73
2012	182	182	115	2	13,119,579	47.85	1.27
2017	182	182	99	16	14,724,031	49.05	1.2
2022	182	182	156	57	16,707,962	52.5	3.45

Haryana

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1982	90	24	6	-	376,604	7.67	-
1987	90	20	16	10	613,819	10.08	2.41
1991	90	89	2	14	582,850	9.43	0.65
1996	90	25	11	9	672,558	8.88	0.55
2000	90	29	6	5	684,283	8.94	0.06
2005	90	90	2	4	949,176	10.36	1.42
2009	90	90	4	2	857,831	9.04	1.32
2014	90	90	47	43	4,125,285	33.20	24.16
2019	90	90	40	7	4,569,016	36.49	3.29
2024	90	89	48	8	5,548,800	39.94	3.45

Himachal Pradesh

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1982	68	67	29	-	545,037	35.16	-
1985	68	57	7	22	502,252	30.61	4.55
1990	68	51	46	39	858,518	41.78	11.17
1993	68	68	8	38	840,233	36.14	5.64
1998	68	68	31	23	995,482	39.02	2.88
2003	68	68	16	25	1,079,882	35.38	3.64
2007	68	68	41	25	1,441,142	43.78	8.4
2012	68	68	26	15	1,300,756	38.47	5.31
2017	68	68	44	18	1,846,432	48.79	10.32
2022	68	68	25	19	1,814,530	43.00	5.79

Jammu and Kashmir

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1983	76	27	0	-	70,193	3.19	-
1987	76	29	2	2	132,528	5.10	1.91
1996	87	53	8	6	301,238	12.13	7.03
2002	87	58	1	7	227,633	8.57	3.56
2008	87	64	11	10	493,757	12.45	3.88
2014	87	75	25	14	1,107,194	22.98	10.53
After The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act In 2019
2024	90	61	29	4	1,462,225	25.64	2.66

Jharkhand

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
2005	81	63	30	-	2,387,130	23.57	-
2009	81	67	18	12	2,074,215	20.18	3.39
2014	81	72	37	19	4,334,728	31.26	11.08
2019	81	79	25	12	5,022,374	33.37	2.11

Karnataka

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1983	224	110	18	-	1,024,892	7.93	-
1985	224	116	2	16	571,280	3.88	4.05
1989	224	118	4	2	755,032	4.14	0.26
1994	224	223	40	36	3,517,119	16.99	12.85
1999	224	149	44	4	4,598,741	20.69	3.7
2004	224	198	79	35	7,118,658	28.33	7.64
2008	224	224	110	31	8,857,754	33.86	5.53
2013	224	223	40	70	6,236,227	19.89	13.97
2018	224	223	104	64	13,268,284	36.22	16.33
2023	224	224	66	38	1,40,96,604	36.00	0.35

Kerala

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1982	140	69	0	-	263,331	2.75	-
1987	140	116	0		708,261	5.56	2.81
1991	140	137	0		674,525	4.76	0.8
1996	140	127	0		781,090	5.48	0.72
2001	140	123	0		789,764	5.02	0.46
2006	140	136	0		738,244	4.75	0.27
2011	140	138	0		1,053,654	6.03	1.28
2016	140	98	1	1	2,129,726	10.53	4.5
2021	140	115	0	1	2,354,468	11.3	0.77

Madhya Pradesh

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	320	310	60	-	3,665,201	30.34	-
1985	320	312	58	2	4,606,133	32.45	2.11
1990	320	269	220	162	7,779,942	39.14	6.69
1993	320	320	117	103	9,188,602	38.82	0.32
1998	320	320	119	2	10,430,233	39.28	0.46
After the state's bifurcation in 2000
2003	230	230	173	-	10,836,807	42.50	-
2008	230	228	143	30	9,493,641	37.64	4.86
2013	230	230	165	22	15,191,335	44.88	7.24
2018	230	230	109	56	15,643,623	41.02	3.86
2023	230	230	163	54	21,116,197	48.55	7.53

Maharashtra

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	288	145	14	-	1,645,734	9.38	-
1985	288	67	16	2	1,590,351	7.25	2.13
1990	288	104	42	26	3,180,482	10.71	3.46
1995	288	116	65	23	4,932,767	12.80	2.09
1999	288	117	56	9	4,776,301	14.54	1.74
2004	288	111	54	2	5,717,287	13.67	0.87
2009	288	119	46	8	6,352,147	14.02	0.35
2014	288	260	122	76	14,709,276	27.81	13.79
2019	288	164	105	17	14,199,375	25.75	2.06

Manipur

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1984	60	12	0	-	6,163	0.71	-
1990	54	11	0		18,549	1.87	1.16
1995	60	20	1	1	38,405	3.35	1.48
2000	60	39	6	5	142,174	11.28	7.93
2002	60	46	4	2	126,044	9.55	1.73
2007	60	14	0	4	12,536	0.85	8.7
2012	60	19	0		29,663	2.12	1.27
2017	60	60	21	21	601,539	36.28	34.16
2022	60	60	32	11	702,632	37.83	1.55

Meghalaya

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1993	60	20	0	-	29,948	3.68	-
1998	60	28	3	3	41,924	5.01	1.33
2003	60	28	2	1	48,932	5.42	0.41
2008	60	23	1	1	29,465	2.67	2.75
2013	60	13	0	1	16,800	1.27	1.4
2018	60	47	2	2	151,292	9.63	8.36
2023	60	60	2		173,083	9.17	0.46

Mizoram

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1993	40	8	0	-	10,004	3.11	-
1998	40	12	0		8,448	2.50	0.61
2003	40	8	0		7,823	1.87	0.63
2008	40	9	0		2,222	0.44	1.43
2013	40	17	0		2,139	0.37	0.07
2018	40	39	1	1	51,087	8.09	7.72
2023	40	23	2	1	35,524	5.06	3.03

Nagaland

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1987	60	2	0	-	926	0.19	-
1989	60	Not Contested
1993	60	6	0	-	2,561	0.35	-
1998	60	Not Contested
2003	60	38	7	-	96,658	10.88	-
2008	60	23	2	5	60,627	5.35	5.53
2013	60	11	1	1	19,121	1.75	3.6
2018	60	20	12	11	153,864	15.31	13.56
2023	60	20	12		215,336	18.81	3.5

Odisha

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	147	28	0	-	86,421	1.36	-
1985	147	67	1	1	204,346	2.60	1.24
1990	147	63	2	1	390,060	3.56	0.96
1995	147	144	9	7	1,245,996	7.88	4.32
2000	147	63	38	29	2,570,074	18.20	10.32
2004	147	63	32	6	2,898,105	17.11	1.09
2009	147	145	6	26	2,674,067	15.05	2.06
2014	147	147	10	4	3,874,748	17.99	2.94
2019	146	146	23	13	7,612,449	32.49	14.5
2024	147	147	78	55	10,064,827	40.07	7.58

Puducherry

Year	Assembly	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Nominated MLAs
1985	7th	30	3	0	-	158	0.05	0.05	0
1990	8th	30	8	0		2,154	0.51	0.46	0
1991	9th	30	12	0		3,045	0.78	0.27	0
1996	10th	30	14	0		5,217	1.13	0.35	0
2001	11th	30	5	1	1	22,164	4.65	3.52	0
2006	12th	30	27	0	1	17,356	3.07	1.58	0
2011	13th	30	20	0		9,183	1.32	1.75	1
2016	14th	30	30	0		19,303	2.41	1.09	3
2021	15th	30	9	6	6	114,298	13.66	11.25	3^[12]

Punjab

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	117	41	1	-	405,106	6.48	-
1985	117	26	6	5	345,560	4.99	1.49
1992	117	66	6		495,161	16.48	11.49
1997	117	22	18	12	857,219	8.33	8.15
2002	117	23	3	15	583,214	5.67	2.66
2007	117	23	19	16	1,046,451	8.28	2.61
2012	117	23	12	7	998,098	7.18	1.1
2017	117	23	3	9	833,092	5.39	1.79
2022	117	73	2	1	1,027,143	6.60	1.21

Rajasthan

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	200	123	32	-	1,721,321	18.60	-
1985	200	118	39	7	2,437,594	21.24	2.64
1990	200	128	85	46	3,744,945	25.25	4.01
1993	199	196	95	10	6498330	38.60	13.35
1998	200	196	33	62	6,258,509	33.23	5.37
2003	200	197	120	87	8,929,572	39.20	5.97
2008	200	193	78	42	8,258,966	34.27	4.93
2013	200	200	163	85	13,939,203	45.17	10.9
2018	200	200	73	90	13,829,046	38.77	6.4
2023	200	200	115	42	16,608,741	41.70	2.93

Sikkim

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1994	32	3	0	-	274	0.16	-
1999	32	Not Contested
2004	32	4	0	-	667	0.34	-
2009	32	11	0		1,966	0.78	0.44
2014	32	13	0		2208	0.71	0.07
2019	32	12	0		5,700	1.62	0.91
2024	32	31	0		19,956	5.18	3.56

Tamil Nadu

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	234	10	0	-	13,177	0.07	-
1984	234	15	0		54,390	0.25	0.18
1989	234	31	0		84,865	0.35	0.10
1991	234	99	0		419,229	1.70	1.35
1996	234	143	1	1	490,453	1.81	0.11
2001	234	21	4	3	895,352	3.19	1.38
2006	234	225	0	4	666,823	2.02	1.17
2011	234	204	0		819,577	2.22	0.20
2016	234	188	0		1,228,704	2.84	0.62
2021	234	20	4	4	1,213,510	2.62	0.22

Telangana

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
2018	119	117	1	-	1,443,799	6.98	-
2023	119	111	8	7	3,257,511	13.90	6.92

Tripura

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1983	60	4	0	-	578	0.06	-
1988	60	10	0		1,757	0.15	0.09
1993	60	38	0		27,078	2.02	1.87
1998	60	60	0		80,272	5.87	3.85
2003	60	21	0		20,032	1.32	4.55
2008	60	49	0		28,102	1.49	0.17
2013	60	50	0		33,808	1.54	0.05
2018	60	51	36	36	1,025,673	43.59	42.05
2023	60	55	32	3	985,797	38.97	4.62

Uttar Pradesh

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing
1980	425	400	11	-	2,777,731	10.76	-
1985	425	347	16	5	2,890,884	9.83	0.93
1989	425	275	57	41	4,522,867	11.61	1.78
1991	425	415	221	164	11,770,214	31.45	19.84
1996	424	422	177	44	16,637,720	33.30	1.85
After the state's bifurcation in 2000
2002	403	320	88	-	10,776,078	20.08	-
2007	403	350	51	37	8,851,199	16.97	3.11
2012	403	398	47	4	11,371,080	15.00	1.97
2017	403	384	312	265	34,403,299	39.67	24.67
2022	403	376	255	57	38,051,721	41.29	1.62

Uttarakhand

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of	Vote swing
2002	70	69	19	-	728,134	25.45	-
2007	69	69	34	15	1,203,726	31.90	6.45
2012	70	70	31	3	1,4083,41	33.13	1.23
2017	70	70	57	26	2,314,250	46.51	13.38
2022	70	70	47	10	2,383,838	44.33	3.18

West Bengal

Year	Total Seats	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of	Vote swing
1982	294	52	0	-	129,994	0.58	-
1987	294	57	0		134,867	0.51	0.07
1991	294	291	0		3,513,121	11.34	10.76
1996	294	292	0		2,372,480	6.45	4.89
2001	294	266	0		1,901,351	5.19	1.26
2006	294	29	0		760,236	1.93	3.26
2011	294	289	0		1,934,650	4.06	2.13
2016	294	291	3	3	5,555,134	10.16	6.1
2021	292	291	77	74	22,850,710	38.13	27.97

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↑ Election Commission 1991.
↑ Election Commission 1996.
↑ Election Commission 1998.
↑ Election Commission 1999.
↑ Election Commission 2004.
↑ Election Commission 2009.
↑ "LS 2014 : List of successful candidates" (PDF). Election Commission of India . p. 93. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
↑ "LS 2019 : List of successful candidates". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 October 2019.
↑ "BJP grows stronger in Puducherry as 3 party men nominated as MLAs". The Deccan Herald . 11 May 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

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[ECI1984-1] "LS Statistical Report : 1984 Vol. 1" (PDF). Election Commission of India . p. 81. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

[ECI1985-2] "LS Statistical Report : 1985 Vol. 1" (PDF). Election Commission of India . p. 15. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

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[FOOTNOTEElection_Commission1996-5] Election Commission 1996.

[FOOTNOTEElection_Commission1998-6] Election Commission 1998.

[FOOTNOTEElection_Commission1999-7] Election Commission 1999.

[FOOTNOTEElection_Commission2004-8] Election Commission 2004.

[FOOTNOTEElection_Commission2009-9] Election Commission 2009.

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[ECI2019-11] "LS 2019 : List of successful candidates". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 October 2019.

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