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Maharashtra, but not the kind the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was expecting. The saffron party, which was talking of bagging more than 45 seats in the state, managed to get a lead in only 17 seats with the help of its allies- -the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar).

BJP a simple majority, the INDIA bloc members demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi resign on moral grounds after his party failed to retain majority without allies. They said the poll result “is also a popular rejection of the politics of vendetta” by the BJP-led government.

Uttar Pradesh has emerged as a gripping political thriller on the day of the Lok Sabha election results in 2024. Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, the 'UP ke ladke', posed a formidable challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the INDIA bloc cutting into BJP's seat share. However, the true victor of Uttar Pradesh in this election is a leader whose efforts have finally borne fruit.

candidates on Delhi's seven seats have lost their security deposits in the Lok Sabha elections, according to the Election Commission. In Chandani Chowk 23, New Delhi 15, South Delhi 20, East Delhi 18, West Delhi 22, North East Delhi 26 and North West Delhi 24 candidates forfeited their deposit.

Lok Sabha election 2024, many candidates won by a huge margin. BJP's sitting MP Shankar Lalwani won the Indore Lok Sabha seat of Madhya Pradesh with a margin of 10.08 lakh votes in biggest victory of any BJP candidate in Madhya Pradesh. Interestingly, NOTA remained at the second position with over two lakh. Congress' nominee from Indore, Akshay Kanti Bam withdrew his nomination papers at the last minute. In the absence of a candidate from Congress, it was a walk-over for Shankar Lalwani and BJP in Indore. The Congress supporters had campaigned for NOTA during the election. The BJP has been retaining the Indore seat since 1989. Before Lalwani, BJP member Sumitra Mahajan, who also served as Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019, held the position for an exceptional eight consecutive terms.

Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, lost the Lok Sabha elections to Shreyas M Patel of the Congress by 42,549 votes on Tuesday. Patel secured 6,72,988 votes and Revanna 6,30,339.

AAP) that failed to win even a single Lok Sabha seat in Delhi, its vote share registered an impressive increase of nearly six per cent as compared to 2019 polls while the winner BJP lost its polled votes by nearly two per cent as compared to 2019 polls, according to results announced on Tuesday. The Congress that failed to win any seat out of three contested by it in Delhi, lost its vote share by over three per cent as compared to 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh on Tuesday secured a win on the Allahabad Lok Sabha seat ending the party's 40 years long dry patch when actor Amitabh Bachchan was elected. According to the Election Commission, Singh won the seat by a margin of 58,795 votes against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Neeraj Tripathi. Singh got a total of 4,62,145 votes, while Tripathi received 4,03,350 votes.

Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday won the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat of Gujarat by a margin of over 7.44 lakh votes, one of the highest in this election, bettering the figure of his 2019 victory. Shah defeated his nearest Congress rival Sonal Patel by a staggering margin of 744716, announced the Election Commission of India.

BJP asserted on Tuesday that the Lok Sabha poll victory for its alliance underlines people's faith and confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of «Viksit Bharat». Home Minister Amit Shah said on X that the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) third consecutive victory in the national election has shown that people's trust is only in Modi. The voters' support is their blessing for the prime minister's work in the last 10 years for the welfare of the poor and farmers, revival of heritage and self-respect of women.

candidates who contested in the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal registered victories by massive margins. Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour candidate Abhishek Banerjee topped the list of nominees winning the election with a massive margin of over 7 lakh votes.

Tribal Affairs and Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda lost the Khunti Lok Sabha seat to Congress's Kalicharan Munda by 1.49 lakh votes, officials said. Arjun Munda, a three-time chief minister, had defeated Kalicharan Munda by 1,445 votes in 2019.

political leader with grassroots connect, Rajnath Singh is credited with expanding the BJP's organisational network in the Hindi heartland of Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s and the subsequent decades. The man from Chandauli district of the politically-crucial state is known as a moderate face and is widely respected by leaders cutting across party lines.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes, bettering his mother Sonia Gandhi's victory margin in 2019. According to the Election Commission (EC), Rahul Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. Thakur Prasad Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured 21,624 votes.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, industrialist Naveen Jindal and UP Minister Jitin Prasada are among the turncoats who won the Lok Sabha polls while Ashok Tanwar, Sita Soren and Preneet Kaur joined the list of those who had defected to the saffron party but could not succeed. Aviation Minister Scindia won from Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of over five lakh votes.

Shatrughan Sinha won from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal on Tuesday, the ECI said. The TMC leader defeated his nearest rival S S Ahluwalia of the BJP by a margin of 59,564 votes.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should immediately resign «accepting the moral defeat» because he campaigned in the Lok Sabha polls claiming that the BJP would win over 400 seats but in reality, it failed to get a majority on its own. Addressing a press conference, Banerjee said she would try to ensure that Modi is out of power from the Centre, and the "INDIA bloc is in".

Political families with multiple members in the fray are having a good run in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with most of them either winning or leading in their respective constituencies. Most prominent among them are the family members of the two former chief ministers — Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in Bihar and Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Late Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh — and former prime minister and JD(S) chief H D Deve Gowda in Karnataka.

BJP's vote share suffered a decline this time while the Congress and the Samajwadi party garnered more votes compared to what they did in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to Election Commission data on Tuesday. The BJP, which contested more seats this time than in 2019 but is likely to fall short of the magic figure of 272, garnered 36.91 per cent of the total votes polled, a drop of around 0.39 percentage points as of 6.15 pm.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday during a press conference said that INDIA will hold a meeting with alliance members and take a call tomorrow on the possibilities of forming a government.

Congress party performed significantly better this time than it did in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.