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