The

1998 Indian general election General elections were held in India on 16, 22 and 28 February 1998 to elect the members of the 12th Lok Sabha. The elections were held three years ahead of schedule after the government led by Inder Kumar Gujral collapsed when the Indian Nati ...

polls in

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were held for 39 seats in the state. New elections were called when

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(INC) left the

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government led by

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, after they refused to drop the regional

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(DMK) party from the government after the DMK was linked by an investigative panel to Sri Lankan separatists blamed for the killing of

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. The result was a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning 29 seats, which helped result in

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being sworn in as the 16th Prime Minister of India.

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and the

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, broke off from their long alliance with

and formed an alliance with

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, by joining the

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. This state proved to be very important in determining the prime minister, since the 18 seats of AIADMK proved valuable for BJP to hold power. That was short-lived, since the AIADMK left the alliance in less than a year, and BJP lost the

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resulting in fresh elections being called.

Seat allotments

Source: Frontline Of Polls and Prediction
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United Front

*Note: Even though CPI(M) originally wanted to contest in support of the United Front, it decided to contest alone when only 1 seat (Coimbatore) was offered. After the fallout, CPM wanted to contest 6 seats in Tamil Nadu on its own, but eventually only contested 2 seats and decided to support DMK-TMC front in the other 37 seats. This was done to keep out the possibility of any vote splitting that might result in NDA gaining seats.

National Democratic Alliance

Source: Indian Express

Congress alliance

Voting and results

Results by Alliance

1998 tamil nadu lok sabha election map by parties

, - ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=2 , Alliance/Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Seats won ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Change^† ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Popular vote ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" , Adj. %^‡ , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#FF9933; color:white", NDA , 30 , +30 , 12,272,434 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 47.9% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #009900" , , 18 , +18 , 6,731,550 , 26.3% , 46.9% , - , PMK ! style="background-color: #800080" , , 4 , +4 , 1,548,976 , 6.0% , 47.9% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #FF9933" , , 3 , +3 , 1,757,645 , 6.9% , , - ,

MDMK The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( 'Renaissance Dravidian Progressive Federation') is a political party active in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It was established by Vaiko in 1994 after he left the Dravida Munnetra K ...

! style="background-color: #FF00FF" , , 3 , +3 , 1,602,504 , 6.3% , 45.8% , - , JP ! style="background-color: #FFFF00" , , 1 , +1 , 266,202 , 1.0% , 40.5% , - ,

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! style="background-color: lime" , , 1 , +1 , 365,557 , 1.4% , 55.5% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#FF0000; color:white", UF , 9 , -30 , 10,937,809 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 42.7% , - , DMK ! style="background-color: #FF0000" , , 5 , -12 , 5,140,266 , 20.1% , 43.6% , - , TMC(M) ! style="background-color: teal" , , 3 , -17 , 5,169,183 , 20.2% , 41.6% , - ,

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! style="background-color: #0000FF" , , 1 , -1 , 628,360 , 2.5% , , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#009900; color:white", INC+ , 0 , – , 1,511,444 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 5.9% , - ,

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! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 1,223,102 , 4.8% , , - , MADMK ! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 278,324 , 1.1% , 14.2% , - , UCPI ! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 10,018 , 0.03% , 1.6% , - ! colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:gray; color:white", Others , 0 , – , 984,733 , colspan=2 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;", 3.8% , - ,

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the nati ...

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 161,452 , 0.6% , , - ,

! style="background-color: " , , 0 , – , 265,029 , 1.0% , , - , style="text-align:center;" , Total ! style="background-color: " , , 39 , – , 25,603,798 , 100% , style="text-align:center;" , – , - †: Seat change represents seats won in terms of the current alliances, which is considerably different from the last election.
‡: Vote % reflects the percentage of votes the party received compared to the entire electorate in Tamil Nadu that voted in this election. Adjusted (Adj.) Vote %, reflects the % of votes the party received per constituency that they contested.
Sources: Election Commission of India

List of Elected MPs

^c-indicates sitting/incumbent M.P. from previous Lok Sabha (1996–1998)

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Tamil Nadu

Source: The Tribune

Cabinet Ministers

* Note: R. Muthiah resigned in just 20 days in office, due to his assets coming into question by the high court in Madras. In a year, cabinet ministers M. Thambidurai resigned along with M.R. Janarthanam, who was the replacement of R. Muthiah, as part of AIADMK's withdrawal from NDA, to start up fresh elections in 1999. Vazhappady Ramamurthy also refused to quit his cabinet ministership, and quit his relationship with AIADMK while keeping its relationship with NDA.

Ministers of State (Independent charge)

Ministers of State

Bibliography

Volume I, 1998 Indian general election, 12th Lok Sabha

External links

Website of Election Commission of India

CNN-IBN Lok Sabha Election History

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