Elections
Lok Sabha Election 2024: Modi leading in Varanasi with 55% votes
Summary
Lok Sabha election result: In an election full of surprises, INDIA bloc defied predictions and polls to secure 234 seats. The BJP on the other hand failed to cross the majority mark and had to settle for 240 seats.The Opposition INDIA alliance defied exit poll predictions, staging a massive comeback in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and posing a formidable challenge to the ruling NDA government.
As per the final results, NDA secured 293 seats, while the INDIA bloc won 234 seats. The BJP lost majority for the first time since 2014 securing 240 seats. However, the party was able to retain the title of the single largest party. The Indian National Congress on the other hand improved its 2019 tally of 52 seats to 99. It was also the biggest party in the INDIA bloc.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was contesting for a third consecutive term in Varanasi defeated Congress' Ajay Rai, with a vote share of 54%.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won both the seats – Rae Bareli and Wayanad. In Rae Bareli, Gandhi won with 66.2% of the votes, while in Wayanad, he defeated Annie Raja of CPI by securing 59.7% of the votes, as per the latest updates.
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Home minister Amit Shah who made his electoral debut in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, deafeated Congress leader Sonal Ramanbhai Patel securing 76.5% of the votes.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Smriti Irani, who defeated Rahul Gandhi in the 2019 election from Amethi, lost to Congress leader Kishori Lal by a 17% margin. Lal won the erstwhile Congress stronghold with 55% of the votes.
In Jammu and Kashmir, both the senior leaders from the People's Democratic Party and the National Conference lost their respective seats. PDP's Mehbooba Mufti lost to National Conference candidate Mian Altaf Ahmed by over 27.5% of the votes.
Mufti, the former chief minister of the state, is contesting from Anantnag-Rajouri seat in the first Lok Sabha election held in the Union territory after the abrogation of Article 370 and its subsequent bifurcation.
In Baramulla, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah lost to independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh by nearly 19.8% of the votes.
In North-East Delhi, BJP’s Manoj Tewari defeated Kanhaiya Kumar of Congress. The BJP leader secured 52.8% of the votes.
Congress leader Manish Tewari won the Chandigarh seat with vote share of 48.37%. He defeated BJP candidate Sanjay Tandon, who had 47.67% of the votes, as of 7.00 pm.
In Madhya Pradesh's Guna constituency, BJP's Jyotiraditya Scindia won by securing 67.2% of the votes. In 2020, the former Congress leader had switched ranks to join the BJP.
