The counting is underway for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 to decide the electoral fate of several leaders across the political spectrum. The seven-phased voting took place in 543 Lok Sabha seats between April 19 and June 1.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were among the senior BJP leaders in the contest, while key opposition leaders include former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party boss Akhilesh Yadav and AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Results LIVE: A Look At Key Seats
Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat for a third time. He defeated the Congress' Ajay Rai by over 1.5 lakh votes.
Amit Shah: The Union Home Minister won the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Sonal Patel by a margin of more than 7.44 lakh votes.
Rahul Gandhi: The former Congress chief bettered his mother Sonia Gandhi's 2019 victory margin from the Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh and won by 3,90,030 votes. He is also contesting the Lok Sabha election from Wayanad in Kerala, where he is currently leading.
Akhilesh Yadav: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party supremo is currently leading from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat. He is facing incumbent MP and BJP leader Subrat Pathak.
Asaduddin Owaisi: Four-time MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief retained the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency. He defeated his nearest rival, BJP's actor-turned-politician Madhavi Latha, by more than three lakh votes.
Rajnath Singh: The Defence Minister secured a third term from Lucknow Lok Sabha seat. He defeated his nearest rival and SP's Ravidas Mehrotra by more than 1.35 lakh votes.
Smriti Irani: The Union minister has lost to Congress' Kishori Lal Sharma, a Gandhi family loyalist, by a margin of 1,66,022 votes.
Omar Abdullah: Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir lost the Baramulla seat by 2,04,142 votes. He was defeated by independent candidate Abdul Rashid Sheikh, who secured more than 4.72 lakh votes.
Shashi Tharoor: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister retained his Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala for the fourth time. He won against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar with a margin of 16,077 votes.
Hema Malini: The actor-turned-politician, who has represented the Mathura constituency since 2014, again won from the UP Lok Sabha seat. She defeated Congress' Mukesh Dhangar by nearly three lakh votes.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: The Congress MP is currently trailing former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan, the TMC's face in West Bengal's Baharampur, by over 85,000 votes.
Piyush Goyal: The Union Minister of Commerce and Industries is currently leading by more than three lakh votes from the Mumbai North Lok Sabha.
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