Election 2024 recap: 10 key takeaways from Lok Sabha results

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is poised for a third term after securing 292 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The INDIA bloc, comprising the Indian National Congress, Samajwadi Party and others, also posed a tough challenge to the BJP-led coalition by winning 234 seats. With the announcement of poll results, here are all the things you need to know.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 highlights: Key takeaways

• In NDA, BJP won 240 seats, TDP 16 seats, JD(U) 12 seats, and Shiv Sena seven seats.

• In the India bloc, Congress won 99 seats, Samajwadi Party (SP) 37 seats, Trinamool Congress 29 seats and Shiv Sena (UBT) nine seats.

• BJP's vote share decreased to 36.56% from 37.7% in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, while Congress' increased to 21.19% from 19.49%.

• BJP won all Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi defeated his nearest rival, Congress' Ajay Rai, by 1.5 lakh votes in Varanasi.

• Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah retained the Gandhinagar seat by a margin of 7.44 lakh votes.

• Congress leader Rahul Gandhi retained the Wayanad seat by 3.64 lakh votes and won the Rae Bareli seat by 3.90 lakh votes.

• In Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 Lok Sabha seats, SP won 37 seats, BJP 33 seats, Congress six seats, Rashtriya Lok Dal two seats, Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) and Apna Dal (Soneylal) won one seat each.

• Four candidates aged 25 - Shambhavi Choudhary of Lok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas), Sanjana Jatav of Congress, and Pushpendra and Priya Saroj of SP- are set to become the youngest MPs following their Lok Sabha election victories.

• For the first time, the BJP won a seat in Kerala. Saffron Party's Suresh Gopi defeated the nearest rival, VS Sunilkumar of the Communist Party of India (CPI), by more than 74,000 votes.

Union ministers who lost Lok Sabha polls

Many union ministers were unseated in the 2024 General Elections. Due to BJP's tepid performance, it has to rely on NDA partners to form a government.

• Congress' Kishori Lal Sharma defeated Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani by 1.67 lakh votes in Amethi.

• Union Minister of State (MoS) for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar was defeated by Congress' Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram.

• Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda lost by 1.49 lakh in Khunti constituency.

• Ajay Mishra Teni was defeated by the SP's Utkarsh Verma by more than 34,329 votes.

Other ministers, such as V Muraleedharan, Kaushal Kishore, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Sanjeev Balyan, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, RK Singh, L Murugan, Nishith Pramanik, Rao Saheb Danve, and Subhas Sarkar, also lost in the elections.