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{{short description|Book by Rajdeep Sardesai}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
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| name           = 2014: The Election that Changed India
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| author         = [[Rajdeep Sardesai]]
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| language       = English
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| subject        = [[Politics of India]], [[2014 Indian general election]]
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| publisher      = [[Penguin Books India]]
| pub_date       = 26 May 2015
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| pages          = 372<ref name="DNA">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review-book-review-rajdeep-sardesai-s-2014-the-election-that-changed-india-is-a-must-read-for-all-news-junkies-2035090 |title=Book Review: Rajdeep Sardesai's '2014: The Election that Changed India' is a must read for all news junkies |date=14 November 2014 |work=DNA |accessdate=5 April 2016 |author=Arghya Roy Chowdhury }}</ref>
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'''''2014: The Election that Changed India''''' is a 2015 book by [[Rajdeep Sardesai]], a writer and journalist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rajdeep Sardesai |url=https://penguin.co.in/author/rajdeep-sardesai/ |publisher=Penguin Books India |access-date=4 July 2019}}</ref>
 
In his  book, Sardesai tells the story of the [[2014 Indian general election]]. It was released on 1 November 2014. The book follows through the major stories of the 2014 Loksabha elections which affected the fate of [[Narendra Modi]], [[Manmohan Singh]] and [[Rahul Gandhi]].

It was the first time since 1984 that a party had won enough seats to govern without the support of other parties.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dhume |first=Sadanand |date=2014-05-18 |title=Modi's Next Moves |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304198504579569412999440246.html |access-date=2022-05-21 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>

As per the requirements of the Indian Constitution, [[Elections in India|elections to the Lok Sabha]] must be held at an interval of five years or whenever parliament is dissolved by the [[President of India|president]]. The [[2009 Indian general election|previous election]], to the [[15th Lok Sabha]], was conducted in April–May 2009, and its term would have naturally expired on 31 May 2014.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}

==Reception==

In the ''[[Deccan Chronicle]]'' Suparna Sharma wrote that "Rajdeep Sardesai gives us almost a fly-on-the-wall account of the campaign of one party" and "With broad, confident brushstrokes he creates, in true [[kshatriya]] tradition, character sketches, post-script of course, of Modi the winner and Rahul the loser. He analyses and judges personalities by what they did on the battlefield, no so much by who they are, or what they stand for".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/141214/lifestyle-booksart/article/book-review-2014-election-changed-india-%E2%80%98no-selfies-modi%E2%80%99 |title=Book Review: 2014 The Election That Changed India: 'No selfies with Modi'  |author=Suparna Sharma |date=15 December 2014 |access-date=5 April 2016}}</ref>

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