The National Democratic Alliance led by Prime Minister Narendra modi has won the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with 293 seats in the House of 543 and is set to form the government at the Centre for third consecutive term.
However, Modi's party, the BJP, failed to secure simple majority on its own in the Lok Sabha. The BJP could win only 240 seats on its own. The party suffered major setbacks in crucial states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. The Congress, on the other hand, has won 99 seats.
For the first time in his political career, Modi will be leading a coalition government and will have to deal with the pulls and pressure of the allies that comes naturally in such governments.
Results for all 543 Lok Sabha seats have been released by the Election Commission of India. The Congress has won 99 seats and the BJP 240.
The last result to be declared was the one from the Maharashtra constituency of Beed, where Bajrang Manohar Sonwane of the NCP (Sharad Pawar) defeated Pankaja Munde of the BJP by a margin of 6,553 votes.
Although there are 543 members of the Lok Sabha, 542 seats were counted as the BJP's candidate from Surat, Mukesh Dalal, won the seat without a challenge.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lead the government for a third term in a row. This is despite the fact that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) suffered crushing losses in three states in the Hindi heartland, and the election was fiercely contested and widely perceived as a referendum on Modi's popularity.
A far cry from the 303 and 282 seats it had won in 2019 and 2014, respectively, to have a majority on its own, the BJP, whose candidates ran on the platform of Modi, won 240 seats, falling short of the 272 majority mark and requiring the support of allies in the party-led NDA for government formation.
The NDA passed the halfway point with the help of important allies N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar's JD(U), which took home 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, respectively, as well as other alliance members.
The opposition INDIA bloc's number in the new Lok Sabha stands at 232. The Congress gained 99 seats as opposed to 52 in 2019, reducing the BJP's majority in Rajasthan and Haryana.
With 37 seats, the Samajwadi Party maintained the confidence of the INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC), another important opposition party member, increased their 2019 tally of 22 seats to 29 in West Bengal. Twelve seats were gained by the BJP, which had won eighteen in the previous Lok Sabha elections.
The exit polls and the BJP-led NDA had anticipated a landslide victory, but that was not what the results showed.
The greatest democratic exercise in history was scheduled to take place in seven parts from April 19 to June 1 and involved the counting of over 640 million votes.
Final Seat Position (Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results)
NDA: 293
INDIA: 232
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BJP: 240 (Vote: 36.56%)
Congress: 99 (Vote: 21.19%)
Samajwadi Party (SP)- 37
Trinamool Congress (AITC)- 29
DMK- 22
TDP- 16
JD(U)- 12
Shiv Sena (Uddhav)- 9
NCP (Sharad Pawar)- 8
Shiv Sena (Shinde)- 7
LJP (Ram Vilas)- 5
YSRCP- 4
RJD- 4
AAP- 3
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