18th Lok Sabha
The 18th Lok Sabha was formed after general elections were held in India over seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024, to elect all members from 543 constituencies of the Lok Sabha. The results were declared on 4 June 2024. The Bharatiya Janata Party won a plurality of
seats with 240, followed by the Indian National Congress with 99 seats With the required absolute majority being 272 seats, having 293 seats, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance coalition formed the government. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is the Leader of the House and Rahul Gandhi is the Leader of the Opposition.
Members
- Speaker: Om Birla
- * Deputy Speaker: Vacant
- Leader of the House: Narendra Modi
- Leader of Opposition: Rahul Gandhi
- Secretary General: Utpal Kumar Singh
Panel of Chairpersons
Party-wise distribution of seats
Member statistics
;Party-wiseThe 18th Lok Sabha has members from 41 different parties. Out of the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha, 346 members are from the 6 recognised national parties, 179 seats are from the recognised state parties, 11 seats are from the unrecognised parties and 7 seats are from independent politicians. 262 have previously served as MPs and 216 were re-elected from the 17th Lok Sabha.
;Age, gender and religion
The average age of the elected MPs is 56 years, down from 59 years in the 17th Lok Sabha. Four elected MPs are of the age of 25, which is the minimum age to contest: Shambhavi Choudhary, Sanjana Jatav, Pushpendra Saroj and Priya Saroj. The oldest elected MP was T. R. Baalu at the age of 82, having won the national elections for the seventh time. The number of women was reduced by four to 74, considerably short of the 33% which will be required after the Women's Reservation Bill, 2023 is enforced. This Bill will be enacted after the delimitation of constituencies happens after the 2024 elections and next census. About 16% of the total women MPs are below the age of 40. Out of all the women candidates contesting the elections, only 9.3% won. The present Lok Sabha has a husband-wife couple of Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple. The last time a couple had been elected was in the 16th Lok Sabha. In terms of religion, 24 MPs are Muslims, three are Buddhists, and the remaining 95% comprise Hindu, Sikh, Christian, and non-religious MPs.
;Crime
The Association for Democratic Reforms has noted that nearly 46% of the elected members have criminal cases registered against them. Of these, 170 have been registered with serious crimes that include rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, and various crimes against women. Comparing this with the 17th Lok Sabha, a total of 233 MPs had criminal charges, with 159 had serious crimes registered against them. 27 winning candidates have disclosed that they have been convicted in criminal cases. Four of these cases are related to murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and 27 declared cases are related to attempt to murder.
;Education
As per the self-declared forms submitted before the polls, all of the elected MPs are literate. During the election, 121 candidates had recorded themselves to be illiterates, but none of them won. 78% of members have at least undergraduate education, and 5% have doctorates. Professionally, the majority of them indicated they were social workers or agriculturists, while 7% were lawyers and 4% were medical practitioners.
;Assets
With regards to economic standing, 93% of MPs hold family assets of more than worth, which is an increase from 88% in 2019. The average assets of all the MPs of the house computes to. TDP member Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, a doctor and businessman, has declared the highest assets of.
Sessions
Lok Sabha usually has three sessions in a year Budget Session, Monsoon session and Winter session. Following sessions were held of 18th Lok Sabha.| Session | Duration | Key Events | Ref. |
| 1 | 24 June 2024 - 2 July 2024 | ||
| 2 | 22 July 2024 - 9 August 2024 | ||
| 3 | 25 November 2024 - 20 December 2024 | ||
| 4 | 31 January 2025 - 4 April 2025 | ||
| 5 | 21 July 2025 - 21 August 2025 | ||
| 6 | 1 December 2025 - 19 December 2025 |
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| 7 | 28 January 2026 - 2 April 2026 |