Lok Sabha elections outcomes: The Lok Sabha is comprised of 543 members the counting took place to determine 542 seats following the party’s Surat campaigner Mukesh Dalal was elected without opposition.
The Election Commission of India has announced results for 542 of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP taking 240 seats while The Congress 99.
The final outcome of the Beed district of Maharashtra in which the NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane is leading the BSP’s Pankaja Munde — is yet to be determined.
Although the Lok Sabha has 543 members the counting process was conducted in 542 seats, following the election of the BJP’s Surat campaigner Mukesh Dalal won the election unopposed.
Based on the election results announced earlier on Wednesday morning that PM Narendra Modi has the potential to create a government for the third time in a row. term, with the government of the BJP National Democratic Alliance (NDA) having a majority within the Lok Sabha despite devastating loss across three Hindi heartland states resulting from an intensely fought election which was seen as a vote on Modi’s popularity.
The BJP who’s candidates ran under the banner of Modi won 242 seats but was just short of the majority requirement and also requiring allies from the NDA, a party led by Modi. NDA to form a government, which is a vast difference from the 282 and 303 seats it won in 2014 and 2019 respectively, in order to achieve an absolute majority.
With help from allies of N Chandrababu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) as well as Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) that took 16 and 12 seats within Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, as well as others alliance partners, the NDA has crossed halfway.
The Congress, a part of the opposition INDIA bloc, was able to win 99 seats, compared to the 52 that it got in 2019 and eats into part of the BJP in Rajasthan as well as Haryana.
In the same way that it was the Samajwadi Party kept the INDIA faction’s spirit at a high level within Uttar Pradesh with 37 seats and the Trinamool Congress (TMC), an additional key part of the alliance that is opposed to it has won the 29 seat in West Bengal, higher than the total of its 2018 election, which was 22. The BJP was able to win 18 seats during the recent Lok Sabha elections, won 12 seats.
The result did not give an unbeatable victory as the BJP-led NDA was hoping for, as per the result of exit polls.