The Bharatiya Janata Party, driven by its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, scripted history on Friday as it went well above the half-way mark of 272 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The Modi wave was evident as results poured in during the Friday finale with the NDA taking over 320 seats in the Lok Sabha. On the other hand, scams, inflation and a failed campaign saw Congress being reduced to a double figure party like other regional parties.
While the BJP with some surprising wins in West Bengal and down south, became the biggest gainer in this election, it was the incumbent ruling party Congress that became the biggest loser across the country. The fate of the Congress was reduced down to that of a regional party as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party steamrolled to a single party majority. Despite the Modi wave, senior party leader Arun Jaitley lost to Congress's Amarinder Singh.
Even more surprising was the surge in the number of seats for Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress and Jayalalithaa's AIADMK. TMC's star candidate Moon Moon Sen was among the big winners of West Bengal and so was the BJP's Babul Supriyo.
On the other hand Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party was the other big loser with just one seat in all. Similar was the case with Farooq Abdullah's National Conference which could not open its account in its own state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Left and the Aam Aadmi Party also gave disappointed performances. While the Left could hardly get a couple of seats in West Bengal, the Aam Aadmi Party was completely washed out from Delhi and could manage to win only 4 seats in Punjab.
The big winners this election:
1) Narendra Modi (BJP) - Vadodara, Varanasi
2) Yogi Adityanath (BJP) - Gorakhpur
3) Sonia Gandhi (Congress) - Rae Bareli
4) Rahul Gandhi (Congress) - Amethi
5) Sushma Swaraj (BJP) - Vidisha
6) Kamal Nath (Congress) - Chhindwara
7) LK Advani (BJP) - Gandhinagar
8) Uma Bharti (BJP) - Jhansi
9) Captain Amarinder Singh (Congress) - Amritsar
10) Kirron Kher (BJP) - Chandigarh
11) Hema Malini (BJP) - Mathura
12) Murli Manmohar Joshi (BJP) - Kanpur
13) General VK Singh (BJP) - Ghaziabad
14) BS Yeddyurappa (BJP) - Shimoga
15) Ananth Kumar (BJP) - Bangalore South
16) DV Sadananda Gowda (BJP) - Bangalore North
17) Ram Vilas Paswan (LJP) - Hajipur
18) KC Vengupal (Congress) - Alappuzha
19) Shashi Tharoor (Congress) - Thiruvananthapuram
20) Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP) - Azamgarh, Mainpuri
21) Kalraj Mishra (BJP) - Deoria
22) Dimple Yadav (SP) - Kannauj
23) Rajnath Singh (BJP) - Lucknow
24) Yashwant Singh (BJP) - Nagina
25) Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM) Hyderabad
The big losers this election
1) Arvind Kejriwal (AAP) - Varanasi
2) Arun Jaitley (BJP) - Amritsar
3) Kapil Sibal (Congress) Chandni Chowk
4) Ajay Maken (Congress) - New Delhi
5) Farooq Abdullah (NC) - Srinagar
6) Ajit Singh (RLD) - Baghpat
7) Sachin Pilot (Congress) - Ajmer
8) Kumar Vishwas (AAP) - Amethi
9) Raj Babbar (Congress) - Ghaziabad
10) Ashutosh (AAP) - Chandni Chowk
11) Smriti Z Irani (BJP) - Amethi
12) Rita Bahuguna Joshi (Congress) - Lucknow
13) Raj Mohan Gandhi (AAP) - East Delhi
14) Sriprakash Jaiswal (Congress) - Kanpur
15) Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) - Mathura
16) Kadir Rana (BSP) - Muzaffarnagar
17) Imran Masood (Congress) - Saharanpur
18) Rabri Devi (RJD) - Saran
19) Misa Bharti (RJD) - Patliputra
20) Meira Kumar (Congress) - Sasaram
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