Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE UPDATES: The 2024 Lok Sabha Election results were no short of thriller. While the Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance would return for a third term, the Bharatiya Janata Party fell short of attaining the majority mark of 272. They could only garner 240 seats in the 543 member lower House. The other parties in the alliance especially Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Part and Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United have emerged as the linchpin.
It turned out a favourable victory for the Opposition INDIA bloc which emerged with 232 seats in the results. The Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal who got 37 seats and 29 seats respectively were the major surprises.
The INDIA bloc witnessed massive gains in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana. However, in Bihar where the RJD was expected to perform well failed, getting just 4 seats.
The 2 alliances are reportedly set to have meetings today to discuss their future plans.
Here's a look at major states.
Uttar Pradesh
Out of the 80 parliamentary constituencies, the INDIA bloc won 43 seats with Samajwadi party emerging the single largest party. Despite fulfilling the Ram Mandir promise, the BJP-led NDA slipped to 33. In the last Lok Sabha polls they had got 63 seats.
Maharashtra
In Maharashtra, out of the 48 seats, Congress sprung a surprise by claiming 13 seats, Shiv Sena 9 and NCP 8. BJP could only manage to get 9 seats and faced defeat on 14.
Haryana
Both INC and BJP got 5 seats each in Haryana that sends 10 members to the Lok Sabha.
Here are shocking losses -
Adhir Ranjan lost by 85022 votes to TMC's Yusuf Pathan in Baharampur.
Maneka gandhi who was an 8-time MP from Sultanpur lost by 43,174 votes to SP's Rambhaul Nishad
Bhupesh Baghel lost in Rajnandgaon by 44000 votes. K Annamalai also faced defeat in Coimbatore.
IN J&k Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba mufti lost from baramulla and Anantnag Rajaori constituencies.
Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh also lost from Rajgarh by 1.46 lakh votes.
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PM Modi whose swearing in ceremony will likely take place on June 8 at 8 PM. The new cabinet will also take oath on the same day.
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PM Modi chaired the final meeting of the Union cabinet of the 17th Lok Sabha.
He took a stock of the Lok Sabha election results and likely government formation following the BJP-led NDA winning a majority of seats in the house.
The meeting began at 11.30am at PM's residence. It will be followed by a meeting of the council of ministers.
While the cabinet as per reports has suggested a dissolution, the current Lok Sabha will officially end on June 16.
Congress fell 1 short of 100 mark. Apart from Congress, Samajwadi Party emerged with 2nd highest seats at 37.
All India Trinamool Congress got 29 and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam got 27.
SHS(UBT) got 9, NCP - 8, RJD and CPM both got 4.
BJP has got 240, 32 short of the majority mark in the 543-member lower house.
Chandrababu Naidu's TDP has the 2nd highest number of seats in the NDA at 16 and Nitish Kumar's JDU got 12.
Put together, TDP and JDU sum up to 28 and for forming a stable government, Modi who is set to take oath for the 3rd time on June 8 will be heavily dependent on the 2 parties.
Both parties have assured to support the alliance and are set to meet at 4 pm today to speak about the future course of action.
However, the 2 parties have a list of demands in terms of key portfolios and both parties are also vying for Lok Sabha speaker's position.
The swearing ceremony for Prime Minister Modi will be taking place on June 8, Saturday, as per India Today.
He will be 2nd PM to serve the top job for a consecutive third time.
NDA meet at 4 pm and INDIA bloc to meet at 6 pm.
A steep decline in NDA's performance.
In 2019, the National Democratic Alliance had 353 seats, this time around they could not manage to pass the 300 mark, let alone the ambition of '400-paar'.
While NDA got 292 seats, INDIA alliance performed surprisingly well claiming a total of 234 seats. The UPA in last lower house polls could manage to get only 90 seats.
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Out of the 80 parliamentary constituencies, the INDIA bloc won 43 seats with Samajwadi party emerging the single largest party. Despite fulfilling the Ram Mandir promise, the BJP-led NDA slipped to 33. In the last Lok Sabha polls they had got 63 seats.
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The 2 major alliances National Democratic Alliance and the INDIA are set to hold their respective party meetings today.
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