New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has announced the results for all Lok Sabha constituencies. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 240 out of 543 seats, while the Congress secured 99 seats. The final result came from the Beed constituency in Maharashtra, where NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane narrowly defeated BJP's Pankaja Munde by 6,553 votes.

Although the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting was conducted for 542 seats since BJP's Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed. According to results declared on June 4, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lead the government for a third consecutive term. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has achieved a majority in the Lok Sabha, despite notable losses in three key Hindi heartland states. This election was widely seen as a referendum on Modi's leadership and popularity.

The BJP, contesting in Modi's name, secured 240 seats, falling short of the 272 needed for a majority. This is a significant drop from the 303 and 282 seats it won in 2019 and 2014, respectively. To form the government, the BJP will rely on its allies within the NDA. Support from key allies such as N. Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which won 16 seats in Andhra Pradesh, and Nitish Kumar's JD(U), which won 12 seats in Bihar, helped the NDA cross the halfway mark.

The Congress, part of the opposition INDIA bloc, increased its seat count to 99, up from 52 in 2019, making gains in Rajasthan and Haryana at the expense of the BJP. In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party boosted the INDIA bloc's performance with 37 seats, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal improved its tally to 29 seats from 22 in 2019. The BJP's count in West Bengal dropped to 12 seats from 18 in the previous elections.

The election results did not deliver the landslide victory the BJP-led NDA had hoped for, contrary to exit poll projections. Over 640 million votes were counted in this massive democratic exercise, conducted in seven phases from April 19 to June 1.

Biggest Upsets of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections

Here are some of the major upsets from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections based on early Election Commission numbers:

• Smriti Irani: The Union Minister and BJP stalwart lost to Congress veteran KL Sharma by a margin of approximately 130,000 votes.
• K. Annamalai: In Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, BJP's Annamalai was defeated by DMK's Ganapathy Rajkumar P by 118,068 votes.
• Rajeev Chandrasekhar: The BJP minister lost to Congress politician Shashi Tharoor by over 16,000 votes.
• Omar Abdullah: In Jammu & Kashmir's Baramulla, Omar Abdullah of the National Conference lost by nearly 200,000 votes to Independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh.
• Maneka Gandhi: The BJP candidate was defeated in Sultanpur by Samajwadi Party's Rambhual Nishad by 43,174 votes.
• Arjun Munda: The Union Minister from Jharkhand lost to Congress' Kali Charan Munda by 149,675 votes.
• Mehbooba Mufti: The Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party leader lost by over 280,000 votes to Mian Altaf Ahmad of the National Conference.
• Raj Babbar: In Haryana's Gurgaon, Raj Babbar of Congress was defeated by BJP's Rao Inderjit Singh by 750,000 votes.
• Bhupesh Baghel: The former Chhattisgarh CM lost to BJP's Santosh Pandey by over 44,411 votes.
• Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: The Congress heavyweight was defeated in Baharampur by TMC's Yusuf Pathan by nearly 85,022 votes.
• Arjun Munda: In Khunti, Congress candidate Kalicharan Munda defeated Union Minister Arjun Munda by 149,000 votes.

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