Lower bounds on the condition number minκp(V ) of a Vandermonde matrix V are established in terms of the dimension n or n and the largest absolute value among all nodes that define the Vandermonde matrix. Many bounds here are asymptotically sharp, and compare favorably to those of the same kind due to Gautschi and Inglese (Numer. Math., 52 (1988), 241–250) who considered either all positive nod...