Page 9 - Lok Sabha Elections 2019

EC submits list of new MPs to President, process for 17th LS initiated

While the EC notification sets in motion the constitution of a new Lok Sabha, the list given to the President enables him to formally initiate the government formation process.

PM Modi to stake claim to form new govt, meets President this evening

BJP under Narendra Modi won a historic 303 seats out of 542. This was their best ever performance.

YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy to meet Modi, may discuss issue-based support

The meeting assumes importance as the YSRCP chief during the election campaign had said that his party would support whoever promises Andhra Pradesh the Special Category Status

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Nearly 80% candidates in J&K lost security deposit

The BJP retained three parliamentary seats of Jammu, Udhampur and Ladakh, while the National Conference swept the polls in the Kashmir valley, winning all the three seats of Srinagar, Anantnag and Bar

Saffron surge: Will Mamata keep flock together ahead of state polls?

TMC insiders said the party virtually failed to counter BJP's nationalism narrative and Hindutva pitch, which resulted in the polarisation in the state, where Muslims constitute 27% of the population

Why did Rahul Gandhi lose in Amethi? Here's what voters have to say

Amethi LS seat remained loyal to the Gandhi family since 1980. In 2014 lok sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi defeated Smriti Irani by a margin of over 100,000 votes.

BJP retains Maharashtra tally despite marginal rise in 2014 vote share

As per data, the BJP polled 1,49,12,139 votes as against 1,33,08,961 votes it had secured five years ago

Congress Working Committee meets to mull over LS poll debacle

There were speculations that Congress President Rahul Gandhi has offered to resign but the party has denied it.

Odisha voters go for split voting; choose Naveen for state, Modi for centre

The Biju Janata Dal won 12 Lok Sabha seats while the BJP got eight and the Congress one but in the state Assembly election the BJD bagged 112 seats while the BJP won 23 and the Congress only nine.

After landslide win, PM Modi to visit Gujarat to seek mother's blessings

He will be in Gujarat on Sunday and on Monday he will go to Varanasi to meet the people of his constituency.

Shekhar Gupta: Mandal, Mandir make way for Modi

BJP's Mandir politics has subsumed Mandal under Modi-Shah and created a pan-Hindu vote. Modi's challenger has to invent a new politics

The awful, unchanging binary of elections

You cannot win an election without putting together a massive war chest

Sensex, Nifty end at record closing high as investors cheer BJP's victory

The broader markets outperformed, with the mid- and small-cap indices gaining more than 2% each

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Bihar sees highest number of NOTA votes

According to the Election Commission's website, the NOTA vote share in the state stood at 2% of the total votes

Story in numbers: Here's a look at the MPs of the 17th Lok Sabha

At least 716 women candidates contested the general election

Left supporters helped BJP, says Trinamool Congress after poor show

Incidentally, the Left Front lost 22.21% of vote share in this year's general election

Anomaly in Facebook poll spend data; 'unknown' locations top chart

Experts say more transparency is required from social media and other digital giants

PM Modi meets L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi; outgoing Cabinet resigns

BJP sources said the PM could take oath of office next week

Whose Bengal is it anyway?

As the BJP raced neck and neck with the TMC, Mamata must have regretted the cosmopolitan liberalism that allows Bengal to embrace outsiders as favourite sons

Modi again. What next?

But we're not done and dusted with the elections - yet