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Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: The final results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections arrived with multiple plot twists as the INDIA bloc reached an impressive figure of 232 seats. Now, all eyes are on the BJP, which will need the help of its allies to form a government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. If the BJP forms the government at the Centre, Modi will equal Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of holding the PM’s chair for the third consecutive time.
As the results were declared on Tuesday, there were multiple seats where the final margin between the top two candidates was less than 10,000. However, some leaders sailed through their constituencies to register thumping victories while also breaking the record for the highest margin of victory in a Lok Sabha election – 6.96 lakh votes, set by BJP’s Pritam Munde in a 2014 bypoll in Maharashtra’s Beed.
Here is the list of the top 5 contestants with the highest margin of victories in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah now holds the fifth-largest margin of victory in Lok Sabha elections after defeating his nearest rival, Congress’s Sonal Ramabhai Patel, in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar by 7.44 lakh votes. Shah got 10,10,972 votes in total while Patel received just 2,66,256 votes.
The fourth highest margin of victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha election also came from Gujarat. BJP’s C R Patil defeated his opponent by a landslide margin of 7.73 lakh votes in Navasari Lok Sabha constituency. Patil secured 10,31,065 votes, while his nearest rival, Congress’s Nishadbhai Bhupatbhai Desai, got 2,57,514 votes.
The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, emerged victorious with an enormous margin of 8.21 lakh votes in the Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency. A total of 11,16,460 votes were in favour of the former CM, while his closest rival in Congress, Pratap Bhanu Sharma, got 2,95,052 votes.
The Congress leader from Assam’s Dhubri, Rakibul Hussain, now holds the second-largest margin of victory in Lok Sabha election history, with a margin of 10.12 lakh votes in the Dhubri constituency . Hussain got 14,71,885 votes, while the second spot went to Md. Badruddin of All-India United Democratic Front, who bagged 4,59,409 votes.
The new record for the largest margin of victory in Lok Sabha elections now belongs to BJP’s sitting MP from Indore, Shankar Lalwani, who got a total of 12,26,751 votes in comparison to his nearest rival Bahujan Samaj Party’s Sanjay Solanki’s 51,659 votes, taking the total margin of victory to 11.72 lakhs. Notably, the actual second position on this seat is for NOTA, which received a total of over 2 lakh votes.
