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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Which candidates won by the biggest margins?

Five candidates, including four from the BJP and one from Congress, broke all previous records for the highest victory margin in a Lok Sabha election

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: Constituency-wise winners list for Bihar

Lok Sabha election result: Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) is leading at 14 seats while the BJP is ahead on 13 seats, the vote counting trend till 3 pm showed

LS election results 2024: NDA to meet ahead of government formation

While the NDA is comfortably above the majority mark of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the BJP has fallen short of the magic number for the first time since 2014

Foreign outflows from markets hit record after weaker Modi mandate

This was the worst session since March 2020 for both the blue-chip indexes

Election results: India's economic fundamentals remain robust, says Nomura

Reforms in India have generally survived the test of politics and we expect the government to continue the pace of governance and administrative reforms

Bond investors worried as weak Modi victory fans fiscal populism fears

Fiscal discipline has been a hallmark of Modi's decade-long administration, and many investors were expecting him to win a supermajority to reduce the budget deficit

Election results 2024: BJP wins 240 Lok Sabah seats, Congress 99, says EC

While the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting was held for 542 seats after the BJP's Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed

5 candidates crush record for highest victory margin, Indore's Lalwani tops

Union Home Minister Amit Shah won from Gandhinagar by a margin of over 7.44 lakh votes

LS poll result: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, four of his family win seats in UP

Dimple Yadav defeated her nearest rival BJP's Jaiveer Singh by a margin of 2,21,639 votes

Leaders of Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, congratulate PM Modi on poll victory

Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay also congratulated Modi and NDA for the historic third consecutive win and said he looked forward to working closely with him

US commends India's elections, refrains from commenting on results

In the election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured or was leading in 240 seats, emerging as the single largest party in the 543-member Lok Sabha

LS election result 2024: BJP-led alliance suffers jolt in Maharashtra

The Congress won nine and was leading in four seats, Shiv Sena (UBT) won eight and was leading in a seat. NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) won five seats and was leading in three seats

LS polls: Smriti Irani, Annamalai, Adhir Ranjan among big names who lost

Interestingly, Irani was dubbed a giant slayer in 2019 after she defeated Rahul Gandhi from the seat in the last general elections

LS polls: 15 Muslim candidates, including TMC's Yusuf Pathan secure seats

A total of 78 Muslims were in the fray in the Lok Sabha elections this year, a significant drop from the last polls

LS polls: Kangana, Hema Malini, Dimple Yadav among women candidates who won

However, Amethi's incumbent MP Smriti Irani and Sultanpur MP Maneka Gandhi were among the parliamentarians who lost

Lok Sabha polls 2024: BJP wins with reduced margins in national capital

In 2019, BJP's candidates won by margins ranging from over 2.28 lakh votes to 5.78 lakh votes

Lok Sabha election results 2024: Why 'all eyes are on Nitish Kumar' today

Given Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's track record of strategic alliances during pivotal moments, his role is anticipated to be significant in this election

Plateau to coast: BJP breaks barriers in South, East with one major ally

The BJP retained its winning streak in Karnataka where per reports it led in 18 out of the 28 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress was ahead in 10

Lok Sabha election results: After resurgence, what next for the Congress?

Compared with 52 seats in 2019, the party's tally looks set to increase to 99 this time, with 77 seats won already and substantial leads on 22 at the time of going to press

BJP ends BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik's stint as Odisha chief minister

In terms of vote share, the BJP got 39.89 per cent votes, up from 32.8 per cent in 2019. The BJD, on the other hand, saw its vote share dip to 40.18 per cent from 45.2 per cent in the last elections