Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: State, constituency, party-wise winning candidates; full winners list

Counting of votes for the 542 parliamentary seats in India’s general election to Lok Sabha saw several surprise wins and losses, arrival of new faces and one-sided victories in what was clearly one of the most bitterly fought election campaign in the history of Indian politics. The BJP-led NDA won the general elections with a thumping majority and the party alone won 303 seats. [caption id=“attachment_6654321” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi. Image courtesy: Twitter/@INCIndia and PTI[/caption] Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in office, won from Varanasi. Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who was projected as UPA’s prime ministerial candidate, won from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, though he lost the family pocket borough Amethi to BJP’s Smriti Irani. A Rajya Sabha Member, Irani unsuccessfully contested from Amethi against Rahul in 2014. BJP president Amit Shah and Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who were sitting in the Rajya Sabha earlier, made it to the Lok Sabha. Shah, 54, was elected to the Upper House of Parliament in August 2017, making his parliamentary debut. He won his first Lok Sabha election from the Gandhinagar constituency by a margin of over 5.57 lakh votes against his nearest rival Congress’ CJ Chavda. Sonia Gandhi retained Rai Bareli Lok Sabha seat while Union minister Rajnath Singh won from Lucknow with a margin of 3.4 lakh votes. In West Bengal, BJP’s Babul Supriyo won from Asansol. Union minister and BJP leader Kiren Rijiju also won from the Arunachal West seat. Four Independent candidates, including cine star Sumalatha Ambareesh (wife of three-time Congress MP and film star Ambareesh), Naba Kumar Sarania from Kokrajhar seat in Assam (second time in a row), Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar from Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Navnit Ravi Rana in Amravati, also made it to the Lok Sabha. The number of Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha has increased to a decade high of 27, up from 23 last time, with a dozen of them winning from Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal even as none of the six Muslim candidates fielded by BJP tasted victory. National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, AIMIM’s outspoken chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan are among the high-profile Muslim candidates who have won the polls.

Here’s the list of the winners and losers in the 542 Lok Sabha seats in the general elections:

  In one of the biggest surprise results for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh lost to BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal by a huge margin. In New Delhi, former chief minister Sheila Dikshit  lost to BJP’s Manoj Tiwari. Aam Aadmi Party’s East Delhi candidate Atishi lost to Gautam Gambhir of BJP. Atishi had accused Gambhir of distributing derogatory pamphlets to target her during the run-up to the election. This election, over 75 candidates  switched sides, hoping to push their chance to become Members of Parliament, but at least 47 of them lost. Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who joined Congress in April, lost by over 2.84 lakh votes to BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad from the Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar. Former JD(U) president Sharad Yadav, who contested on RJD ticket from Madhepura, lost to Dinesh Chandra Yadav of his former party by over 3 lakh votes. Tariq Anwar, who switched from Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party to Congress, lost by over 57,000 votes from Katihar. Cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Azad lost Dhanbad in Jharkhand by over 4.8 lakh votes. He had joined the Congress after quitting the BJP. Son of former Union minister and veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh, Manvendra contested on Congress ticket from the border district of Barmer in Rajasthan and lost by 3.23 lakh votes from Kailash Choudhary of his previous party. Baijayant Panda, a former BJD leader who contested this election as a BJP candidate, lost from Kendrapara in Odisha by over 1.52 lakh votes. Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan Shukla, who contested on Congress ticket in the last general election but joined the BJP in 2017, won from Gorakhpur seat with a margin of over 3 lakh votes. The seat was last represented in Parliament by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. With inputs from PTI