Indian General Election, 2019 - wikipedia Indian General Election, 2019 Indian general election, 2019 ← 2014 April - May 2019 2024 → 543 seats in the Lok Sabha 272 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls First party Second party Third party Leader Narendra Modi Sonia Gandhi Edappadi Palaniswami Party BJP INC AIADMK Alliance NDA UPA Third Front Leader since 7 October 2013 14 March 1998 16 February 2017 Leader 's seat Varanasi Rae Bareli Did not contest Last election 282 44 37 Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party Leader Mamata Banerjee Naveen Patnaik Uddhav Thackeray Party Trinamool Congress BJD Shiv Sena Alliance NDA Leader since 1998 2000 2013 Leader 's seat Did not contest Did not contest Did not contest Last election 34 20 18 Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party Leader N. Chandrababu Naidu K. Chandrashekhar Rao Pawan Kalyan Party TDP TRS Jana Sena Alliance NDA Third Front Leader since 1995 2001 14 March 2014 Leader 's seat Did not contest Did not contest Did not contest Last election 16 11 Prime Minister before election Narendra Modi BJP Elected Prime Minister TBD TBD General elections are due to be held in India by 2019 to constitute the seventeenth Lok Sabha. Electoral system The 543 elected members of the Lok Sabha will be elected from single - member constituencies by first - past - the - post voting. The President of India nominates an additional two members. Parties and alliances References ^ Jump up to : `` General Election to Loksabha Trend and Result 2014 ''. Election Commission of India. 16 May 2014. Archived from the original on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014. Jump up ^ https://www.webcitation.org/6PfWDNtfY?url=http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/PartyWiseResult.htm Jump up ^ https://www.webcitation.org/6PfWDNtfY?url=http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/PartyWiseResult.htm Jump up ^ Electoral system IPU Elections in India General elections 1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1945 1951 -- 52 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1998 1999 2009 2014 2019 State elections 1920 1923 1926 1930 1934 1937 1946 1952 1954 1955 1957 1960 1961 1962 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1989 2001 2017 2018 See also : Elections in Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_general_election,_2019&oldid=802294798 '' Categories : 2019 elections in Asia Elections in India 2019 in India 2019 elections in India Hidden categories : Pages using deprecated image syntax Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 25 September 2017, at 07 : 14. About Wikipedia

Question: when is the next central government election in india
Answer: April - May 2019