Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) candidate Ravindra Waikar achieved the narrowest victory, edging out Shiv Sena UBT candidate Amol Gajanan Kirtikar by just 48 votes in the Mumbai North West constituency. Historically, the record for the smallest victory margin in Lok Sabha elections is held by Konathala Ramakrishna from Anakapalli and Som Marandi from Rajmahal in Bihar, each winning by only nine votes in 1989 and 1998, respectively.
Congress' Adoor Prakash registered second lowest margin
In this election, the Congress' Adoor Prakash secured the second-smallest margin, triumphing by 684 votes in the Attingal constituency in Kerala. Among the candidates winning with a margin of less than 2,000 votes are the BJP's Rao Rajendra Singh from Jaipur Rural (1,615 votes) and his party colleague Bhrojraj Nag from Kanker in Chhattisgarh (1,884 votes).
Cadidates with lowest margin of wins
Other candidates who won the Lok Sabha polls with a slender margin are the BJP's Mukesh Rajput from Farukhabad in Uttar Pradesh (2,678 votes), the BJP's Praveen Patel from Phulpur (4,332 votes), the Congress' Sher Singh Ghubaya from Firozpur in Punjab (3,242 votes), senior Congress leader Manish Tewari from Chandigarh (2,504 votes), Muhammad Hamdullah Sayeed of the Congress from Lakshadweep (2,647 votes) and the Samajwadi Party's Anand Bhadauriya from Uttar Pradesh's Dhaurahra (4,449 votes).
The BJP's Kamlesh Paswan won from Uttar Pradesh's Bansgaon by a margin of 3,150 votes, the saffron party's Saumitra Khan from Bishnupur by 5,567 votes, its candidate Aruna DK from Telangana's Mahabubnagar by 4,500 votes. The Samajwadi Party's Ajendra Singh Lodhi won from Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh by 2,629 votes while its candidate Ramashankar Rajbhar from Salempur won by 3,573 votes.
The Trinamool Congress' Mitali Bag won from West Bengal's Arambagh constituency with a margin of 6,399 votes. According to the latest trends on the Election Commission website, the Congress' Manickam Tagore is leading from Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar by 4,633 votes while the grand old party's Bacchav Shobha Dinesh is ahead in Maharashtra's Dhule by 3,831 votes.
Lok Sabha election results 2024
It should be mentioned here that the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the results for all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 seats and the Congress 99. The Lok Sabha has 543 members. However, votes were counted for 542 seats after the BJP's Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed.
(With PTI inputs)
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