Lok Sabha Election 2024 Final Results: BJP wins 240 seats, Congress bags 99. Check full list
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Final Results
With more than 640 million votes counted, India has wrapped up its 2024 general elections making the end of the world’s largest democratic exercise which took place between April 19 to June 1. The vote counting began on June 4, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared results for all 543 parliamentary constituencies onWednesday (Jun 5) morning.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Final Results
While the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) has 543 seats, the counting was held for 542 as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Surat, Gujarat was elected unopposed.
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The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is poised to form the next government as the ruling party and its allies garnered a total of 292 votes.
However, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP failed to cross the 272 majority mark and will need the support of allies to form the government. The ruling party had won 303 and 282 seats in the general elections in 2019 and 2014, respectively.
Meanwhile, the main opposition INDIA bloc, led by the Indian National Congress (INC), put up a tough fight and won 234 seats.
INC managed to get 99 seats compared to 52 it won in 2019. It was also the highest number of seats that the grand old party baggedsince 2014.
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The Samajwadi Party (SP), a part of the INDIA bloc, won 37 seats, the third-highest overall after BJP and Congress.
The party, led by Akhilesh Yadav, also emerged as the single-largest party in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh which has 80 parliamentary constituencies, the highest in the country.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Final Results: Full List
(With inputs from agencies)