Lok Sabha Election 2024: Lok Sabha Elections Voting for five out of seven phases for 2024 has taken place. While BJP and NDA are claiming to win more than 400 seats, the opposition Indian Alliance is also claiming victory. Voting is still to be held on 114 seats under two phases. Among these, there are many seats in which the margin of victory and defeat during the last Lok Sabha elections was very less and the contest went till the last vote was counted. In the last elections i.e. in the year 2019, there were 30 such Lok Sabha seats, where there was a difference of 10 thousand votes between victory and defeat.
The margin on these seats was less than Rs 10 thousand
The 30 seats we are talking about include Anantnag seat of Jammu and Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar, Arambag, Aurangabad, Bhongir, Burdwan-Durgapur, Chamarajanagar, Chidambaram seat. Whereas in Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Guntur, Jehanabad, Kanker, Khunti, Koraput (ST), Lakshadweep, Machilishahr, Malda South, Meerut and Mizoram, the difference of victory and defeat was less than 10 thousand votes. Similar results were seen in Muzaffarnagar, Rohtak, Sambalpur, Shravasti, Goa South, Srikakulam, Vellore, Vijayawada as well as Visakhapatnam and Zaheerabad seats.
Who has how many seats in close contest?
If we talk about close contest, the NDA alliance had the upper hand here. Out of these 30 seats, 15 went to NDA. BJP had won 10 seats, TDP 3, JDU and NCP won one seat each in close contest. Here, India Alliance got 10 seats, in which Congress got 5, DMK – 1, VCK- 1, TMC got 1 seat. Here among others AIMIM, BSP, BRS got 1 seat each.
There was a difference of five thousand votes on these seats
In the last election i.e. 2019, there were 14 such seats in which there was a difference of less than 5 thousand votes. Among these, NDA-8 and India Alliance got 4 seats. BJP-5, TDP, JDU and NCP got 1 seat each, all the candidates became MPs by winning by less than 5 thousand votes. If we talk about the parties included in the India Alliance, Congress had won on 2 seats, VCK-1, TMC-1. AIMIM also got 1 seat here with a difference of less than five thousand. What is more important is that there was a difference of less than 1 thousand votes in Machhilishahr and Lakshadweep seats of Uttar Pradesh.