Abstract
This article analyzes the coalition strategies of national and regional parties in India's federal parliamentary, single-member district, simple-plurality system during the evolution of the national party system from a one-party dominant system to a fragmented, multiparty system. The focus is on the compatibilities between the strategies for expansion and consolidation of power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a range of regional parties with a base only in one or a few states. Spatial compatibility, whereby the BJP's and regional parties' bases lie in different sets of states, is the key to explaining the coalitions that have emerged between the BJP and regional parties since 1998, in addition to the regional parties' desires for a share in power in the national governing coalition.
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