Lok Sabha Election 2024 results: Which party has won how many seats?

The results for all the Lok Sabha constituencies have been declared by the Election Commission of India (ECI), with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) securing 240 seats. Meanwhile, the INDI Alliance mustered 232 seats, with the Congress managing 99 seats.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to form the government once again with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) getting a majority in the Lok Sabha. Notably, the alliance lost in three pre-dominantly Hindi-speaking regions, including Uttar Pradesh.

The BJP’s Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed earlier leading to the counting of votes in 542 seats.

The BJP, whose candidates contested in the name of Modi, won in 240 seats, falling short of the 272-majority mark and needing the support of allies. This result is a far cry from the 303 and 282 seats it had won in 2019 and 2014, respectively, securing the majority on its own.

With support from key allies — N Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which won 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, respectively, and other alliance partners, the NDA crossed the majority mark.

The Congress, which is part of the opposition INDI Alliance, won 99 seats compared to 52 it won in 2019, eating into the BJP’s share in Rajasthan and Haryana.

The Samajwadi Party kept the Opposition’s morale high in Uttar Pradesh with 37 seats, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC) won 29 seats in West Bengal, higher than its 2019 tally of 22. The BJP, which had won 18 seats in the last Lok Sabha elections, was reduced to 12 seats in the eastern state.

The results did not throw up a landslide victory the BJP-led NDA had hoped for and what was projected by the exit polls. More than 640 million votes were to be counted in the world’s largest democratic exercise, conducted from 19 April to 1 June in seven phases.