Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: 48 votes decide Mumbai North West; Here's a list of candidates who won by lowest margins
BJP emerged victorious in 240 out of 543 seats, while the Congress secured 99. BJP's tally fell short of the 272-majority mark, necessitating the support of allies within the party-led NDA for government formation.
The NDA alliance secured 295 seats, while the INDIA bloc surprised observers by clinching 231 seats, contrary to all exit poll predictions. Some seats witnessed huge margins of victory, and in many places, the candidates lost and won by the smallest margins.In Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena candidate Ravindra Dattaram Waikar secured the lowest victory margin of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
He defeated Shiv Sena UBT candidate Amol Gajanan Kirtikar by a mere 48 votes from the Mumbai North West constituency. Waikar won 452,644 votes, while Kirtikar got 452,596 votes from this constituency.Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE UpdatesIn Kerala, another lowest margin was seen in the Attingal constituency, where the candidate won by 684 votes.
Congress candidate Advocate Adoor Prakash won with 328051 votes, while CPI(M) candidate V Joy got 327367 votes.In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party's Ajendra Lodhi won the Hamirpur seat by the smallest margin, 2629 votes. Lodhi won 490683 votes, while BJP candidate Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel secured 488054 votes.Another constituency in UP with the lowest margin is Salempur, where SP candidate Ramashankar Rajbhar won by 3573 votes to BJP's Ravindra Kushawaha.
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