Gujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi will benext Prime Minister ofIndia as BJP and its allieshave won a landslide vic-tory in the Lok Sabha elec-tion by winning 337 seatsand leaving Congress in

tatters. Modi led theBJP back topower after adecade in

opposition, taking advan-tage of public anger atCongress for uncontrolledhigh prices, corruption,scams and rising unem-ployment.The triumph capped anamazing run for the 63-

year-old chief minister ofGujarat, who ran a high-voltage campaign thatrewrote the political rule-book and caught his rivalsnapping. The Congress’incumbency problemswere compounded by alistless showing fromRahul, who failed to grabthe public imagination.Congress chief Sonia andRahul Gandhi conceded

LOK SABHA ELECTION RESULTS

BJPGandhinagar

L.K. Advani

BJPChandigarh

Kirron Kher

BJPVidisha

Sushma Swraj

BJPNagpur

Nitin Gadkhari

BJPSultanpur

Varun Gandhi

TMCBarrackpore

Dinesh Trivedi

BJPGhaziabad

V K Singh

BJPShimoga

B. S. Yeddyurappa

JD(S)Hassan

HD Dave Gowda

CongressChhindwara

Kamal Nath

CongressGulbarga

Mallikargurn Kharge

BJPBangalore(N)

D V Sadananda Gowda

CongressAmritsar

Capt. Amarinder Singh

TRSMedak

K Chandrashekhar Rao

BJPAhmedabad(E)

Paresh Raval

BJPJhansi

Uma Bharti

CongressGuna

Jyotiraditya Scindia

SPMainpuri

Mulayam Singh Yadav

BJPBangalore(S)

Ananth Kumar

UDFPonnani

E T Mohammed Basheer

BJPNew Delhi

Meenakshi Lekhi

BJPChikmagalur

Shobha Karandlajee

CongressRohtak

Deepender Singh Hooda

BJPBellary

B Sriramulu

CongressAmethi

Rahul Gandhi

CongressRae Bareli

Sonia Gandhi

Celebritywinners

CelebrityLosers

GujaratResults

AAPVaranasi

Arvind Kejriwal

AAPGhaziabad

Shaazi Illmi

AAPChandigarh

Gul Panag

RLDBaghpat

Ajit Singh

CongressChandigarh

Pawan Kumar Bansal

CongressGaziabad

Raj Babbar

CongressBangalore(S)

Nandan Nilekani

CongressUdampur

Ghulam Nabi Azad

CongressMayiladhthurai

Mani Shankar Aiyar

CongressThiruvananthauram

Shashi Tharoor

BJPPilibhit

Maneka Gandhi

CongressChikkaballapur

M. Veerappa Moily

BJPMathura

Hema Malini

BJPLucknow

Rajnath Singh

TMCBankura

Moon Moon Sen

CongressMahasamund

Ajit Jogi

BJPKanpur

Murli Manohar Joshi

BJPPatna Sahib

Shatrughan Sinha

BJPAmritsar

Arun Jaitley

CongressSasaram

Meira Kumar

CongressMumbai(NC)

Priya Dutt

IndependentBarmer

Jaswant Singh

CongressAnandpur Sahib

Ambika Soni

RJDSaran

Rabri Devi

RJDBijnor

Jaya Prada

CongressNew Delhi

Ajay Maken

DMKNilgiris

A Raja

CongressChandni Chowk

Kapil Sibal

CongressMumbai(S)

Milind Deora

AAPMumbai(NE)

Medha Patkar

BJPSerampore

Bappi Lahiri

JD(U)Madhepura

Sharad Yadav

AAPBhavnagar

Rajmohan Gandhi

RAPMumbai(NW)

Rakhi Sawant

BJPAmethi

Smriti Irani

BJPAhmedabad(E)

Paresh Rawal

BJPAhmedabad(W)

Dr. Kirit Solanki

BJPAmreli

Kachhadiya Naranbhai

BJPAnand

Dilip Patel

BJPBanaskantha

Chaudhary Haribhai

BJPBardoli

Vasava Parbhubhai

BJPBharuch

Vasava Mansukhbhai

BJPBhavnagar

Dr. Bharatiben Shiyal

BJPChhota Udaipur

Ramsinh Rathwa

BJPDahod

Jasvantsinh Bhabhor

BJPGandhinagar

L.K. Advani

BJPJamnagar

Poonamben Maadam

BJPJunagadh

Chudasama Rajeshbhai

BJPKatch

Chavda Vinod Lahamashi

BJPKheda

Chauhan Devusing

BJPMahesana

Patel Jayshreeben

BJPNavsari

C. R. Patil

BJPPanchmahal

Chauhan PrabhatSinh

BJPPatan

Liladharbhai Khodaji

BJPPorbandar

Radadiya Vithalbhai

BJPRajkot

Kundariya Mohanbhai

BJPSabarkantha

Rathod Dipsinh

BJPSurat

Darshana Vikram

BJPSurendranagar

Fatepara Devajibhai

BJPVadodara

Narendra Modi

BJPValsad

Dr. K. C. Patel

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LOK SABHA ELECTION RESULTS

Party Position in 2009Name of Party No. of SeatsCongress 198BJP 112Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) 21Samajwadi Party(SP) 21Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) 19All India Trinamool Congress(AITC) 18Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK) 18Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPI(M)) 16Biju Janata Dal(BJD) 14Shiv Sena(SS) 10All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) 9Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) 8Independent(Ind.) 7Telugu Desam Party(TDP) 6Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD) 5Communist Party of India(CPI) 4Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD) 4Jammu and Kashmir National Conference(J&KNC) 3Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) 3All India Forward Bloc(AIFB) 2Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) 2Jharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM) 2Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)(JVM (P)) 2Revolutionary Socialist Party(RSP) 2Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) 2Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party(YSR Congress Party) 2All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) 1All India United Democratic Front(AIUDF) 1Asom Gana Parishad(AGP) 1Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi(BVA) 1Bodoland Peoples Front(BPF) 1Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) (HJC) 1Janata Dal (Secular)(JD(S)) 1Kerala Congress (M) (KC(M)) 1Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(MDMK) 1Sikkim Democratic Front(SDF) 1Swabhimani Paksha(SWP) 1Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi(VCK) 1

NDA 337BJP 283TDP 16SHS 19SAD 4MNS 0AINRC 1Apna Dal 2DMDK 0HJC(BL) 0LJP 6MDMK 0NPF 1NPP 1PMK 1RLSP 3RPI(A) 0UPA 58Congress 43NCP 5RJD 4NC 0IUML 2JMM 2KC(M) 1RLD 0RSP 1AAP 4AAP 4OHERS 144AITC 34AIADMK 36BSP 0SP 5DMK 0AGP 0AIFB 0AIUDF 3AJSU 0BDF 0BJD 20BJD(I) 0BMP 0CPI 0CPI(M) 9CPI(ML)(L) 0GGP 0GOA 0GSP 0HSP 0IND 3INLD 2IPFT 0JD(S) 2JD(U) 2Others 28

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Aandaman & Nikobar 1/1

BJP 1

Congress 0

Others 0

Andhra Pradesh 42/42BJP 3

Congress 1

TDP 16

YSR 9

TRS 12

Others 1

Arunachal Pradesh 2/2BJP 1

Congress 1

Others 0

Assam 14/14BJP 7

Congress 3

JDS 3

Others 1

Bihar 40/40BJP 23

Congress 2

JD(U) 2

RJD 3

RLSP 3

LJP 6

Others 1

Chandigagh 1/1BJP 1

Congress 0

Others 0

Chhattisgarh 11/11BJP 10

Congress 1

Others 0

Dadra & Nagar Haveli 1/1BJP 1

Congress 0

Others 0

Daman & Diu 1/1BJP 1

Congress 0

Others 0

Delhi 7/7BJP 7

Congress 0

AAP 0

Gujarat 26/26BJP 26

Congress 0

AAP 0

Others 0

Goa 2/2BJP 2

Congress 0

Others 0

Hariyana 10/10BJP 7

Congress 1

INLD 2

Others 0

Himachal Pradesh 4/4BJP 4

Congress 0

Others 0

Jammu & Kashmir 6/6

BJP 3

Congress 0

PDP 3

Zarkhand 14/14BJP 13

Congress 0

JDS 1

Others 0

Kerala 20/20

BJP 0

Congress 8

IND 2

CPI(M) 5

KC(M) 1

RSP 1

IUML 2

Others 1

Karnataka 28/28

BJP 17

Congress 9

JDS 2

Others 0

Lakshwadeep 1/1BJP 0

Congress 0

NCP 1

Others 0

Madhya Pradesh 29/29BJP 27

Congress 2

Others 0

Maharashtra 48/48BJP 24

Congress 2

Shivsena 18

NCP 4

Manipur 2/2BJP 0

Congress 2

NCPF 0

Others 0

Meghalya 2/2BJP 0

Congress 1

JDS 1

Other 0

Mizoram 1/1Congress 1

AAP 0

Others 0

Nagaland 1/1Congress 0

NPF 1

Others 0

Orissa 21/21BJP 2

Congress 0

BJD 19

Others 0

Puducheri 1/1Congress 0

SINRC 1

Others 0

Punjab 13/13BJP 2

Congress 3

AAP 4

Shiromani Akali Dal 4

Others 0

Rajsthan 25/25BJP 25

Congress 0

AAp 0

Others 0

Sikkim 1/1BJP 0

Congress 0

JDS 1

Others 0

Tamil Nadu 39/39BJP 1

Congress 1

AIADMK 36

PMK 1

Others 0

Tripura 2/2BJP 0

Congress 0

CPI(M) 2

Others 0

Uttar Pradesh 80/80

BJP 71

Congress 2

BSP 0

AAP 0

RLD 0

APNA DAL 2

Other 0

Uttrakhand 5/5BJP 5

Congress 0

AAP 0

Others 0

West Bengal 42/42

BJP 2

Congress 4

TMC 34

CPI(M) 2

Others 0

State-wise Result

defeat and ownedthe responsibilityfor the poor show-ing of the party inthe election andc o n g r a t u l a t e dModi on his his-toric victory. PrimeM i n i s t e rManmohan Singhand his cabinetwill resign onSaturday. Modi islikely to will takeas the PrimeMinister on 21stMay.Modi, who won from

both Vadodara andVaranasi, tweeted "Indiahas won!" and went toseek the blessings of his90-year-old motherHiraben in Ahmedabad.He held victory rallies inAhmedabad andVadodara later in the day,before heading toVaranasi on Saturday tooffer thanks, and then onto Delhi, his new home.The BJP-led National

Democratic Alliance won337 seats while theCongress-led UnitedProgressive Alliance won58 seats , its worst-evertally.The BJP alliance

swept the electorally keystate of Uttar Pradesh, bywinning 71 out of 80

seats. Mulayam Singh’sSamajwadi Party, whichruns the state governmentwon just 5 seats.In Bihar, BJP won 23

out of 40 seats and inDelhi the BJP won all the7 seats. Many prominentCongress ministers lost,including SushilkumarShinde, Kapil Sibal andSachin Pilot. Arun Jaitley was a

prominent loser on theBJP side, undone by anti-incumbency against theruling Akali Dal inAmritsar.Big winners included J

Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK,which won 36 of 39 seatsin Tamil Nadu, andMamata Banerjee’sTrinamool Congress won34 of 42 seats. The AamAadmi Party, which

stunned observers bywinning the Delhi assem-bly last year, made anencouraging Lok Sabhadebut by winning 4 seatsin Punjab. But its chief,Arvind Kejriwal, fell wellshort of Modi in Varanasi.End of counting

brings the curtains downon the poll process thatbegan on March 5, withthe announcement of thepoll schedule. A record66.4% people turned outto cast their ballot in ninephases of the world’sbiggest vote held betweenApril 7 and May 12.A total of 8,251 candi-

dates, including 668women and five transgen-ders, contested the LokSabha battle. The con-testants included 3,234independents.