Indian general election, 2004 | Wikipedia audio article
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Indian general election, 2004


00:01:54 1 Organisation
00:03:57 2 Political background
00:04:37 3 Pre-poll alliances
00:06:45 4 Forecast and campaigns
00:08:14 5 Results
00:08:23 5.1 Support for formation of UPA-led Government
00:08:33 5.2 Results by states and territories
00:08:43 5.2.1 States
00:08:51 5.2.2 Territories
00:08:59 5.3 Results by Parties
00:09:08 5.4 Results by alliances
00:09:23 5.5 Elected MPs
00:09:36 5.6 Results by post-alliance/allies
00:12:25 6 Analysis
00:14:32 7 Impact
00:15:31 8 Events
00:18:21 9 See also
00:18:40 10 Further reading



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Legislative elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha, or "House of the People," is the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of India.
On 13 May, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance National Democratic Alliance conceded defeat. The Indian National Congress, which had governed India for all but five decades from independence until 1996, returned to power after a record eight years out of office.  It was able to put together a comfortable majority of more than 335 members out of 543 with the help of its allies. The 335 members included both the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, the governing coalition formed after the election, as well as external support from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Kerala Congress (KC) and the Left Front. (External support is support from parties that are not part of the governing coalition).
Congress President Sonia Gandhi surprised observers by declining to become the new prime minister, instead asking former Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, a respected economist, to head the new government. Singh had previously served in the Congress government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s, where he was seen as one of the architects of India's first economic liberalisation plan, which staved off an impending national monetary crisis. Despite the fact that Singh had never won a Lok Sabha seat, his considerable goodwill and Sonia Gandhi's nomination won him the support of the UPA allies and the Left Front.
Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governments along with the parliamentary elections.