Bhopal: Overcoming anti-incumbency factor, BJP today secured a two-thirds majority in the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh winning 164 seats in the 230-member House.
Congress, which was hoping to wrest control of the state after a gap of 10 years, finished with 58 seats.
Result for just one seat, where BJP is leading, is yet to be declared.
Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party won 4 seats and Independents three.
Though BJP's showing in the current election is an improvement on its performance in 2008 polls when it had bagged 143 seats against Congress' 71, it still falls short of the impressive figure of 173 in 2003 when led by firebrand sanyasin Uma Bharti, it had secured a three-fourths majority.
Congress had then put up a pathetic performance with a tally of 38.
BJP's landslide victory, however, was marred by the loss suffered by at least 10 of its ministers at the hustings.
Though Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won his Budhni seat by a whopping 84,805 votes and Vidisha by nearly 17,000 votes, several of his ministers lost.
