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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Sarah Shamim

Election results: How have India’s past coalition governments fared?

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, left, the first non-Congress leader to serve a full term in power, served as prime minister between 1998 and 2004 [File: Girish Srivastava/Hindustan Times via Getty Images]

Narendra Modi is likely to return as India’s prime minister for a third term but will have to rely on allies to run a coalition government for the first time after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fell short of a majority.

Modi led the BJP to landslide victories in the 2014 and 2019 elections, winning 283 and 303 respectively, becoming the dominant leader of the world’s largest democracy.

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