Party politics in India since the 2014 general elections: Party dominance and the making of the fourth party system

Arjan H. Schakel; Chanchal Kumar Sharma; Wilfried Swenden

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Party politics in India since the 2014 general elections: Party dominance and the making of the fourth party system

Arjan H. Schakel^*, Chanchal Kumar Sharma, Wilfried Swenden

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This chapter critically assesses claims that India has entered a new party system after the 2014 general elections, marked by renationalisation with the BJP as the new ‘dominant’ party. Based on electoral data alone, we examine the electoral rise of the BJP since the 2014 general elections. We illustrate and explain the rise of the BJP in the Hindi heartland and in areas beyond its traditional catchment area. We show that this rise has become less territorially uneven in time and that, in the 2019 general elections, BJP success came at the expense not just of Congress’ and regional party support but also of that of regionalist parties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India
Subtitle of host publication	Democracy at the Crossroads?
Editors	Subrata K. Mitra, Rekha Saxena, Pampa Mukherjee
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	6
Pages	112-138
Number of pages	26
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003261063
ISBN (Print)	9781032184548, 9781032198323
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003261063-8
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2022

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Party politics in India since the 2014 general elections: Party dominance and the making of the fourth party system. / Schakel, Arjan H.; Sharma, Chanchal Kumar; Swenden, Wilfried.
The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India : Democracy at the Crossroads?. ed. / Subrata K. Mitra; Rekha Saxena; Pampa Mukherjee. 1st. ed. London: Routledge, 2022. p. 112-138.

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