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print versionLinks to select commentary and data: [updated on 6 June 2019]
- Staggering dominance: The only authentic analysis of this election is two words – Narendra Modi | Pratap Bhanu Mehta
- Election results 2019: A mandate to go where no one has gone before | Bharat Bhushan
- Election results invite questions for liberals. Worldwide, they lack their rivals’ discipline | Christophe Jaffrelot
- Christophe Jaffrelot : "Aujourd’hui, on ne gagne plus les élections sur des idées"
- L’Inde à un tournant de son histoire? (Partie 1) Par Marie-France Chatin (Invités: Isabelle Saint-Mezard, Jean-Luc Racine, Christophe Jaffrelot, Patrick de Jacquelot)
- Presumably all NDA seats have been won by Narendra Modi | Ruchir Joshi
- BJP is a party of mediocrity, an idea kept alive by those who fear new ideas | Shiv Visvanathan
- What the thumping mandate for Modi means | Shiv Visvanathan
- The making of the 2019 verdict | Neera Chandhoke
- Election is the ideology | Vinay Sitapati
- Arundhati Roy on India’s Elections: “A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Beâ€
- India’s Dangerous Landslide | Editorial, The Washington Post
- How Narendra Modi Seduced India With Envy and Hate | Pankaj Mishra
- Modi Won Power, Not the Battle of Ideas | Amartya Sen
- Democracy demands more than the counting of votes | Amartya Sen
- India’s hardest fall | I A Rehman
- Narendra Modi’s landslide: bad for India’s soul | Editorial. The Guardian
- The Importance Of Modi Goes Beyond Narrow Politics Pranay Sharma, interviews historian Mahesh Rangarajan
- The other path: Majoritarianism and its remedy | Sugata Bose
- Disaster for Democracy: How The Modi Wave Has Flooded India With Fascism | Pieter Friedrich
- These were no ordinary elections; these are no ordinary times | Sankarshan Thakur
- Post-poll survey: the 2019 verdict is a manifestation of the deepening religious divide in India | Shreyas Sardesai and Vibha Attri
- Where did the BJP get its votes from in 2019? | Sanjay Kumar, Pranav Gupta (3 June 2019)
- Hindu Right Tightens Its Grip As Modi And BJP Sweep Election | Betwa Sharma
- Backstory: India’s giant Modi wave - why we didn’t see it coming | Mayank Bhardwaj, Rajendra Jadhav
- Factbox: India’s elections - Rules on campaign financing and spending | Reuters (May 1, 2019)
See also some from writings during or prior to the election results:
- Echoes of Pakistan in Indian polls | Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place | Kapil Komireddi
some general reference material on the BJP::
McDonnell, Duncan & Luis Cabrera. The right-wing populism of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (and why comparativists should care), Democratization, Volume 26, 2019 - Issue 3
Jaffrelot, Christophe. “Refining the Moderation Thesis. Two Religious Parties and Indian Democracy: The Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindutva Radicalism and Coalition Politics.†Democratization 20, no. 5 (2013): 876–894. doi: 10.1080/13510347.2013.801256
Palshikar, Suhas. “The BJP and Hindu Nationalism: Centrist Politics and Majoritarian Impulses.†South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 38, no. 4 (2015): 719–735. doi: 10.1080/00856401.2015.1089460
Final result of Lok Sabha elections 2019 are as follows- BJP- 303 Congress- 52 DMK- 23 TMC- 22 YSR- 22 SS- 18 JDU- 16 BJD-12 BSP-10 Others-64
- Lok Sabha election results 2019: Arithmetic behind the surge in Modi wave | Roshan Kishore, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
- Source: Hindustan Times, May 24, 2019
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Resource & Reference Material on the India’s elections:
Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORTS OF GENERAL ELECTION TO LOKSABHA https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/statistical-reports/
