The Bharatiya Janata Party’s final seat tally in the 2024 general election stood at 240, a significant dip from the 303 seats it had won in 2019.
Fifteen Union ministers, including Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Smriti Irani, failed to secure their seats in the Lok Sabha as election results rolled in on Tuesday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s final seat tally stood at 240, a significant fall from 2019 when it had clinched 303 seats. The overall tally of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance reached 292 seats, as per Election Commission data.
In 2019, the alliance had won in 353 constituencies.
A party or coalition requires 272 seats in the 543-member Lower House of Parliament to form a government at the Centre.
The Congress won 99 seats, significantly improving its 2019 tally of 52 seats. The Opposition INDIA bloc collectively bagged 232 seats.
Irani, who is the Union minister of women and child development, lost Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi Lok Sabha constituency to veteran Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma.
Sharma won by a margin of 1.67 lakh votes, having secured 5.39 lakh of the 9.80 lakh votes polled. Irani received 3.72 lakh votes.
The Amethi seat has been a stronghold of the Gandhi family for decades.
