How many times was Modi prime minister

Narendra Modi has become Prime Minister of India three times, winning elections in 2014, 2019, and 2024. He first assumed office on May 26, 2014, after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a decisive majority victory with 282 seats in the Lok Sabha, marking the first time since 1984 that a single party had won an outright majority. This ended three decades of coalition governments in India and represented a watershed moment in Indian politics. Modi was re-elected in 2019 with an even stronger mandate, as the BJP increased its tally to 303 seats, making him the first non-Congress prime minister to win two consecutive full terms with clear majorities.

His third term began in 2024, though with a significant difference from his previous two terms—the BJP won 240 seats, falling short of the 272 needed for a majority on its own. As a result, Modi now leads a coalition government under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which collectively secured enough seats to form the government. This third term marks a return to coalition politics after a decade of single-party majority rule, requiring Modi to manage alliance partners and consensus-building in ways he hadn't needed to during his first two terms. Modi's achievement of winning three consecutive terms places him alongside Jawaharlal Nehru as one of only two Indian leaders to serve three full terms as Prime Minister, reflecting his sustained electoral success and the BJP's dominance in Indian politics under his leadership, though his third term faces different challenges with coalition management.