1 / 10Uttar Pradesh: In what can only be called a shocker, the INDIA alliance won 43 seats as against the BJP-led NDA that got in 36 seats. Smriti Irani was among key BJP leaders who lost. She was defeated by Congress’ Kishori Lal in Amethi. BJP was also unable to win in Faizabad, the constituency where Ram Mandir was built in Ayodhya district. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won Varanasi by a margin of 6.12 lakh votes.
2 / 10Karnataka: Former Karnataka Chief Ministers Basavaraj Bommai and H D Kumaraswamy, and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani were among those who won the Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi won from Dharwad segment. According to the data available from ECI, BJP won 17 seats. The ruling Congress in Karnataka won nine seats, followed by JDS that got two.
3 / 10West Bengal: TMC activists danced to drum beats and smeared each other with 'green' gulal on Tuesday, as trends made it clear that the Mamata Banerjee-led party is romping home with majority seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The TMC got huge victory winning 29 of the 42 seats, while the BJP won 12. The Congress was stunned after Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury looked to be headed for a comprehensive defeat in his home turf of Baharampur against cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan.
4 / 10Delhi: The BJP won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, with its North-West Delhi candidate Yogender Chandoliya leading by a margin of over 2.90 lakh votes, according to the Election Commission (EC) website. The BJP was in a direct contest with the Congress-AAP alliance in the national capital. The party had won all seven seats in Delhi in the 2014 and the 2019 general elections as well.
5 / 10Gujarat: The BJP won 25 out of 26 seats, including Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Mahesana and Junagadh Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat. All of them defeated their nearest Congress rivals. The BJP had already won the Surat seat uncontested. Congress' Geniben Nagaji Thakor won from Banaskantha, the first time since 2014 general elections.
6 / 10Tamil Nadu: 'Baahubali,' that was what Chief Minister M K Stalin said to describe the turnout for the Coimbatore rally addressed by him and Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi in April and said the "total BJP was trumped," by that single public meeting. With the DMK and allies winning all 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state and one in neighbouring Puducherry, the outcome, for the Stalin-led Dravidian party was similar to the success of the popular flick Baahubali.
7 / 10Haryana: The BJP and the Congress won on five Lok Sabha seats each in Haryana, with prominent leaders such as Manohar Lal Khattar, Kumari Selja and Deepender Singh Hooda scorikng big wins. In a setback to the influential Chautala family of Haryana, several of its members who had entered the poll fray faced defeats.
8 / 10Himachal Pradesh: The BJP won on all four Lok Sabha seats of Himachal Pradesh. Kangana Ranaut won frlom Mandi, Anurag Thakur from the Hamirpur seat, Suresh Kumar Kashyap from Shimla and Dr Rajeev Bhardwaj from Kangra.
9 / 10Punjab: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which went solo in the Lok Sabha elections for the first time since 1996, won only one out of the 13 parliamentary constituencies in Punjab. Harsimrat Kaur Badal retained the Bathinda parliamentary constituency. BJP failed to open its account in the state. Congress emerged victorious on seven seats total 13 in the state.
10 / 10Kerala: BJP candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar conceded defeat to Congress's Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, but said that the election result in Kerala indicates that people are increasingly supporting the saffron party. Chandrasekhar, who is the Union Minister of State for Information Technology in the outgoing cabinet, said it was disappointing that he lost, even though the BJP fought a very strong battle in the state.
