Election Results Of All Seats Declared

The Election Commission of India on Wednesday declared results for all the 543 Lok Sabha seats that went to the polls from April 19 to June 1, with the Congress winning 99 constituencies and the BJP securing 240, falling short of the majority mark of 272.

The result for the Beed constituency in Maharashtra -- where the NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane is leading the BJP's Pankaja Munde -- is still awaited. While the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting was held for 542 seats after the BJP's Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed.

According to the results declared early on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) getting a majority in the Lok Sabha.

The BJP, whose candidates contested in the name of Modi, won in 240 seats, falling short of the 272 majority mark and needing the support of allies in the party-led NDA for government formation, a far cry from the 303 and 282 seats it had won in 2019 and 2014, respectively, to have a majority on its own.

With support from key allies N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar's JD(U), which won 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, respectively, and other alliance partners, the NDA crossed the halfway mark.

The Congress, which is part of the opposition INDIA bloc, won 99 seats compared to 52 it won in 2019, eating into the BJP's share in Rajasthan and Haryana.

As the Samajwadi Party kept the INDIA bloc's morale high in Uttar Pradesh with 37 seats, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), another key member of the opposition alliance, won 29 seats in West Bengal, higher than its 2019 tally of 22. The BJP, which had won 18 seats in the last Lok Sabha elections, won 12 seats.

The results did not throw up a landslide victory the BJP-led NDA had hoped for and what was projected by the exit polls.

These are the number of seats won by parties in all states and Union Territories in the 2024 polls - DMK 22; TDP 16; JD(U) 12; Shiv Sena (UBT) 9; NCP (SP) 8; Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) 7; Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) 5; YSRCP 4; RJD 4; CPI(M) 4; IUML 3; AAP 3; JMM 3; Jana Sena Party 2; CPI (ML) (Liberation) 2; JD(S) 2; VCK 2; CPI 2; RLD 2; National Conference 2; United People’s Party Liberal 1; Asom Gana Parishad 1; Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) 1; Kerala Congress 1; Revolutionary Socialist Party 1; NCP 1; Voice of the People Party 1; Zoram People’s Movement 1; Shiromani Akali Dal 1; Rashtriya Loktantrik Party 1; Bharat Adivasi Party 1; Sikkim Krantikari Morcha 1; MDMK 1; Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) 1; Apna Dal (Soneylal) 1; AJSU Party 1; AIMIM 1; and Independent 7.

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