12 lakh margin for BJP winner in Indore — here are 20 candidates who scored big wins

Apart from BJP's Shankar Lalwani, Rakibul Hussain of Congress, BJP's Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Amit Shah also make it to the list of big winners.

File photo of BJP MP Shankar Lalwani (centre) | ANI

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the results of the Lok Sabha elections Tuesday, with the BJP winning 240 of a total 543 seats and the Congress 99. In the results, some candidates broke previous records for victory margin in the Lok Sabha elections. 

Here are some of the candidates who bagged victory in the elections with a large number of votes: 

1. Shankar Lalwani of the BJP made history by recording a win margin of 11,75,092 votes in the Indore Lok Sabha seat. Earlier, BJP’s Pritam Munde held the record of 6,96,000-vote margin in a bypoll in 2014 from Beed in Maharashtra. Right before the voting in Indore, the Congress candidate had withdrawn and joined the BJP, forcing many voters to choose NOTA. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Lalwani secured victory by a margin of 5,47,000 votes. 
2. Rakibul Hussain of the Congress came second as he defeated All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) leader Badruddin Ajmal with a margin of 10,12,476 votes in Assam’s Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency. Hussain, the deputy leader of Congress in Assam, gained over 14,71,885 votes while his opponent secured 4,59,409 votes. 
3. Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won from the Vidisha constituency by a huge margin of 8,21,408 votes on a BJP ticket. He trounced Congress leader Pratap Bhanu Sharma, who secured 2,95,052 votes. Chouhan, a four-term CM, garnered over 10 lakh votes, leading Congress’  Pratapbhandu Sharma who is reeling under 11 lakh votes.
4. Union Home Minister Amit Shah won from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar with 10,10,972 votes and a margin of  7,44,716 votes. He was up against Congress’ Sonal Ramanbhai Patel who secured 2,66,256 votes only. The seat was held by former deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1998 to 2014 and won by Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996. 
5. C.R. Patil, the president of the BJP unit in Gujarat, won from Navsari with a margin of 7,73,551 votes. With this, he has now been elected as a four-time MP. Congress’s Naishadhbhai Bhupatbhai Desai contested against Patil. In 2019, he won against Congress candidate Patel Dharmeshbhai Bhimbhai, registering the highest victory margin in the elections. 
6. Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee made a record by retaining the Diamond Harbour constituency with a margin of 7,10,930 votes, the largest in West Bengal. Banerjee secured 10,48,230 votes, defeating BJP’s Abhijit Das who secured 3,37,300 votes. Banerjee has served as the TMC MP for the Diamond Harbour seat since 2014. 
7. Narendra Modi won the Varanasi seat for a third consecutive time on Tuesday with 6,12,970 votes (54.24 percent) while his opponent Congress leader Ajay Rai tallied 4,60,457 votes (40.74 percent). Modi won this time by a margin of 1,52,513. In 2019, Modi won the seat with 6,74,664 votes (63.62 percent).
8. Rahul Gandhi won from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency with 6,47,445 votes, leaving behind Communist Party of India’s (CPI) Annie Raja by 3,64,422 votes. In Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli, Gandhi won the seat with 6,87,649 votes while BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh trailed behind with 3,90,030 votes. The Raebareli seat was previously held by his mother, Sonia Gandhi, from 2004 to 2019.
9. Brijmohan Agrawal from the BJP won by 5,75,285 votes, the highest in the Raipur Lok Sabha constituency. Agrawal is currently serving as minister of education and parliamentary affairs in the Chhattisgarh government.
10. Sribharat Mathukumili from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) won against Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party candidate Botcha Jhansi Lakshmi in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam by a huge margin of 5,04,247 votes, the highest margin in the state. Mathukumili secured 9,07,467 votes, while Lakshmi secured 4,03,220 votes.
11. Mahesh Sharma from the BJP secured his third win from Gautam Budh Nagar as he won by a margin of 5,59,472 votes, the highest across 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Sharma secured 8,57,829 votes (59.7 percent). 
12. Jyotiraditya Scindia won from the Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of 5,40,929 votes. Scindia contested the polls from Guna on a Congress ticket in 2019, but lost to BJP’s Krishna Pal Singh.
13. Sasikanth Senthil from the Congress won with a vote margin of 5,72,155 in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur against BJP’s Balaganapathy V Pon. While Senthil won 7,96,596 votes, Pon got 2,24,801 votes. He joined the Congress in 2020.
14. Kunduru Raghuveer Reddy, the Congress’s candidate in Telangana’s Nalgonda set a record with his 5,59,905-vote margin victory, overtaking Raavi Narayana Reddy’s 1952 record of a 2,22,280-vote margin win as a Progressive Democratic Front candidate.  
15. Hemang Joshi of BJP won Vadodara by a margin of 5,82,126 votes as he trounced nearest rival Jashpalsinh Mahendrasinh Padhiyar (Congress) in this constituency in Gujarat.
16. BJP’s Vishnu Dutt Sharma won the Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 5,41,229 votes. Sharma secured 7,72,774 votes against Bahujan Samaj Party’s Kamlesh Kumar, who secured 2,31,545 votes.
17. In Gujarat’s Panchmahal, BJP’s Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadav won by a margin of 5,09,342 votes over Gulabsinh Somsinh Chauhan of Congress.
18. In West Bengal’s Joynagar, TMC candidate Pratima Mondal trumped her BJP rival Ashok Kandary by 4,70,219 votes.  
19. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi retained the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, which he won with a margin of 3,38,087 votes against BJP’s Kompella Madhavi Latha, recording his fifth consecutive victory in the seat. Owaisi secured 6,61,981 votes, while Madhavi Latha garnered 3,23,894 votes.
20. Tejasvi Surya, BJP Yuva Morcha national president, won the Lok Sabha election from Karnataka’s Bangalore South constituency. He defeated Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy by a margin of 2,77,083 votes as he polled 7,50,830 votes, while Reddy received 4,73,747 votes.