Americans get their news primarily from television. Given the lack of coverage, it may come as a big surprise to most of them that India just had the biggest election on the planet, and the biggest in human history.

The outcome was a historic sweep by the right-of-center BJP, which won 282 seats out of the 543 seats in India’s Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. The National Democratic Alliance, of which the BJP is the dominant partner, racked up a total of 336 seats. The BJP’s leader, Narendra Modi, will be India’s next prime minister.