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NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has won a crushing victory in India’s most populous state, but initial results Friday showed it might not clinch a majority in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where there was fierce competition with a regional party.
The Election Commission said Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party had won 255 out of 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh’s state legislature, far more than any other party. But to form a government it needs 202 seats. The Bahujan Samaj Party, founded in the 1980s to champion lower-caste people, was leading in 20 seats, and the Samajwadi Party, another regional party, was leading in 101 seats.
However, in the race to elect members of India’s main legislative body, the Lok Sabha, the BJP and its allies were leading in more than 330 out of 543 seats that were being contested, far more than the 245 needed for a majority. Modi had urged voters to give the BJP a stronger mandate to help him push through his agenda in Parliament.
India has four major parties — the BJP, the Congress party, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, which are also reeling from internal divisions.
Party leaders were watching to see if constituents would stay loyal after attacks on the BJP government for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 500,000 people in India, and the faltering economy.
India’s elections are held in phases to allow security forces to move around the vast country, one of the biggest democracies in the world, where a record 910 million people were eligible to vote.