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Bharatiya Janata Party
Congress Party
Government Congress Party
Government Federal
Government
| | Biographies |
Desai, Morarji Ranchodji
Gandhi, Indira Nehru
Gandhi, Rajiv
Gandhi, Sonia
Husain, Zakir
Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul
Patil, Pratibha
Prasad, Rajendra
Reddy, Neelam Sanjiva
Roa, Narasimha
Singh, Charan
Singh, Manmohan
Singh, Vishwanath Pratap
Vajpayee, Atal Behari
Vajpayee, Atal Bihari
| | Places |
Jalgaon
Uttar Pradesh
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Election
History of India
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| | 1950 | Prasad, Rajendra | |
| 28th Jan The Likud Party wins 38 of the 120 seats, the most of all the parties |
| 1962 | Patil, Pratibha | |
| Jalgaon Wins her first elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Jalgaon |
| 1967 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 15th Feb The ruling Congress Party sustains heavy losses |
| 1967 | Husain, Zakir | |
| 15th Feb The ruling Congress Party sustains heavy losses |
| 1971 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| 10th Mar Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had leads her Indian National Congress to a landslide majority in the Parliament of India in the elections, and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, her popularity is meteoric |
| 1977 | Desai, Morarji Ranchodji | |
| June The 6th General Elections, the Janata Party comes to power |
| 1977 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| End of the state of emergency |
| The 6th General Elections, the Janata Party comes to power |
| The Desai dissidents win a landslide victory over the official Congress candidates |
| When Indira Gandhi calls elections, virtually all opposition parties band together to form the Janata Party, which becomes a rainbow coalition of diverse political groups |
| 1977 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| When Gandhi calls elections, the BJS invests all its political and organizational capital in merging into the new Janata Party, a unified opposition party |
| 1979 | Desai, Morarji Ranchodji | |
| Janata Party splits, 7th general elections held |
| 1979 | Reddy, Neelam Sanjiva | |
| Charan Singh gives up his frantic efforts to form a government, and President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy calls fresh elections in January 1980 |
| 1979 | Singh, Charan | |
| Charan Singh gives up his frantic efforts to form a government, and President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy calls fresh elections in January 1980 |
| 1980 | Gandhi, Indira Nehru | |
| Leads the Congress Party to electoral victory at the 7th General Election |
| 1984 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| 29th Dec Elected Prime Minister of India in aandslide victory |
| 1989 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| Allegations of corruption, known as the Bofors affair, causes Rajiv Gandhi's Congress to lose the elections |
| Rajiv Gandhi's Congress is defeated in the 9th general elections |
| 1991 | Gandhi, Rajiv | |
| 21st May Killed in a bomb attack during an election campaign by a Tamil suicide bomber |
| 1991 | Roa, Narasimha | |
| June The 10th general elections sees Congress government return under P.V. Narasimh Rao |
| 1991 | Singh, Vishwanath Pratap | |
| June The 10th general elections sees Congress government return under P.V. Narasimh Rao |
| 1998 | Vajpayee, Atal Behari | |
| Congress suffers worst ever defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP becomes the largest party |
| 2002 | Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainul Abdul | |
| July Elected President |
| 2004 | Gandhi, Sonia | |
| Gandhi launches a nationwide campaign, criss-crossing the country on the Aam Aadmi (Ordinary people) slogan in contrast to the 'India Shining' slogan of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) alliance |
| Uttar Pradesh Wins by a large margin in the Rae Bareilly constituency in Uttar Pradesh |
| 2004 | Singh, Manmohan | |
| May Surprise victory for Congress Party in general elections |
| 2004 | Vajpayee, Atal Bihari | |
| May Surprise victory for Congress Party in general elections |
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