That is solely the second time in India’s historical past that any Prime Minister has been elected for a 3rd consecutive time period. And an fascinating technical reality: if Modi completes this time period, he would be the first PM to undergo 3 consecutive phrases. Jawaharlal Nehru’s first time period was an appointment. He thereafter gained 3 consecutive elections however couldn’t full the final time period.
Congress grew from 57 to 99 seats and elevated its vote share by 1.73%.
The President will invite the chief of the pre-poll coalition with essentially the most variety of seats to kind the federal government
A brand new authorities should be shaped earlier than June 16, when the seventeenth Lok Sabha time period ends. PM Modi has resigned and is presently working a caretaker authorities.
With 240 seats, down 63, Modi will want the help of NDA coalition companions to cross the 272 majority in parliament and kind authorities. There are 13 alliance companions.
Their leaders are:
– Chandrababu Naidu / AP (TDP, 16)
– Nitish Kumar / Bihar (JDU, 12)
– Eknath Shinde / Maha (Shiv Sena, 7)
– Chirag Paswan / Bihar (LJP (RV), 5)
– Ajit Pawar / Maha (NCP, 1)
– Kumarswamy / Karnataka (JD(S), 2)
– Anupriya Patel/ UP (Apna Dal (Soneylal), 1)
– Pawan Kalyan/ AP (Janasena Social gathering, 2)
– Jayant Chaudhary/UP (Rashtriya Lok Dal, 2)
– Urkhao Brahma / Assam (UPPL, 1)
– Assam Gana Parishad / Assam (1)
– Jitan Ram Majhi / Bihar (HMM, 1)
– Sikkim Krantikari Morcha / Sikkim (1)
– Sudesh Mahto / Assam (AJSU, 1)
Altogether, the NDA coalition authorities has 293 seats.
The INDIA alliance, led by the Congress Social gathering, has 233 seats.
There are 7 different events (YSRCP, VOTPP, ZPM, SAD, BHRTDADVSIP, ASPKR, AIMIM, and Independents) who aren’t aligned with both alliance and have, in whole, gained 17 seats. The most important entity amongst them is Jagan Reddy’s YSRCP (in Andhra) with 4 seats.
Rahul Gandhi stated the Congress will speak to winners of the alliance in addition to non-aligned events. A call on whether or not to kind the federal government or not will likely be taken at an alliance assembly.
Some fascinating factoids:
🗳️ 640 million (64Crore) votes have been counted this 12 months, in comparison with 603.74 million (60.4Crore) votes within the final election.
🫵🏼 First-time voters? There are a minimum of 1.82 crore first-time voters within the electoral rolls.
🚫 The Indore seat, contested with none opposition, had greater than 2 lakh NOTA (Not one of the Above) votes – the biggest in India’s historical past, for the reason that choice got here into impact in 2013. On this constituency, a shocking 14% of the overall votes forged have been for NOTA. The earlier excessive was within the 2019 elections. Within the Gopalganj Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, the utmost NOTA votes have been recorded at 51,660, about 5% of the overall votes polled within the constituency.
🙆🏻♂️ Two seats have been gained with a margin of lower than a thousand. Attingal in Kerala, the place the margin was 684 and Mumbai North-west in Maharashtra have been the margin was 48.
And counting for Mumbai North-west was very dramatic. Right here’s the way it unfolded: Initially, UBT Shiv Sena’s Kirtikar led over rival Ekanth Shiv Sena’s Ravindra Waikar by simply 681 votes. However a recount — prompted by the slim margin — confirmed Kirtikar was beating Waikar by only one vote! After a tense wait, the postal ballots have been rechecked and Waikar inched forward by 49 votes. So Ekanth Shiv Sena gained the Mumbai NorthWest seat by simply 48 votes. Closing tally, Waikar 4,52,644. Kirtikar 4,52,596.
Each, Maharashtra and UP, have been the 2 states that just about each exit poll predicted would yield a lot larger outcomes for the BJP, however the celebration ended with 33 seats out of 80 in UP, down from 62 out of 80 seats.
Congress’s giant lead in seats in Maharashtra was additionally totally sudden. They emerged as the biggest celebration in Maharashtra with 96,41,856 votes with 13 seats.
BJP additionally made inroads in South India. Of the 5 southern states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana – they made inroads in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh for the primary time, with 1 out of 20 seats in Kerala and three out of 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh. In Tamil Nadu, in the meantime, the place the celebration didn’t open account, it considerably elevated its voting share, rising from 3.7% in 2019 to 11.24% in 2024.
Within the meeting elections:
BJP gained in Odisha, securing 78 seats out of a complete of 147, defeating Naveen Patnaik-led BJD, which had been ruling Odisha for twenty-four years.
In Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP secured a landslide victory with 135 seats out of 175, whereas its coalition companions, Janasena Social gathering and BJP, received 21 and 11 seats, respectively.