ECI Declares Election Results 2024 for All Seats, Check Final Score of Parties

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has declared results for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. The result for the Beed constituency in Maharashtra — where the NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidate Bajrang Manohar Sonwane is leading the BJP’s Pankaja Munde — is still awaited.

As per the official data, the BJP won 240 seats and the Congress 99.

Counting was held for 542 seats as the BJP’s Surat candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected uncontested.

According to the results declared early on Wednesday, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has got a majority in the Lok Sabha, despite suffering heavy losses in three Hindi heartland states.

The BJP with 240 seats, fell short of the 272 majority mark and it will form the government with the support of the parties in the NDA. In 2019, the BJP had won 303 and in 2014 it got 282. 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, the BJP will form the  NDA government.

The Congress, which is part of the opposition INDIA bloc, won 99 seats compared to 52 it won in 2019. As the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats in Uttar Pradesh. 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 in West Bengal won 12 seats.