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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