It was widely predicted and now it’s official – PM Narendra Modi has won the Indian general election, but not by the landslide expected. With 642 million votes cast, officials took a while to count them all… And although Modi claimed a historic, 5-year third term as the nation’s leader in a speech to supporters, reports say his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party won’t claim the 272 out of 543 seats needed to achieve a majority. That’s nothing like the 400-seat “supermajority” he’d vowed to win going in, and means Modi’s looking at forming a coalition – which is on track to reach 286 seats. Exit polls had the BJP winning by a landslide, but there was an upset with the opposition alliance – INDIA – doing better than expected after they pushed back against Modi’s divisive policies. Regardless, Modi called the win a “victory of the world’s largest democracy”.