Madhya Pradesh Election Results 2024 Highlights: In a first in 40 years for a party, BJP wins all 29 seats

In a major upset, Congress veteran and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday lost Lok Sabha elections from his traditional Rajgarh seat to the BJP by a margin of 1,46,089 votes.

BJP candidate and sitting MP Rodmal Nagar bagged 7,58,743 votes, while Singh, his nearest rival, got 6,12,654 votes, as per EC data.

Nagar won from Rajgarh for a third time in a row. He was the winner in 2014 and 2019 also.

Singh (77), who represented Rajgarh in the Lok Sabha in 1984 and 1991, contested from the seat after a long gap.

Later, his brother Laxman Singh won from Rajgarh four times on a Congress ticket and once from the BJP side.

The former CM belongs to the erstwhile Raghogarh princely state which is part of the Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency.

BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday won from Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a whopping 8,21,408 votes, defeating his nearest Congress rival.

The former MP chief minister polled 11,16,460 votes while Congress’ Pratap Bhanu Sharma, a two-time parliamentarian, managed to get 2,95,052 votes.

This was Chouhan’s sixth victory from Vidisha, once represented by BJP stalwarts like former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1991), Sushma Swaraj (2009 and 2014) and newspaper baron Ramnath Goenka (1971).

“I would like to thank the people who enabled BJP to win with more than 8.20 lakh votes. This is a reflection of people’s faith in prime minister Narendra Modi. The people have given us immense love. The people give love to those who serve them,” Chouhan told PTI.

The ruling BJP seems heading for a sweeping victory in Madhya Pradesh, having clinched 19 of 29 Lok Sabha seats so far with Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Faggan Singh Kulaste, and Virendra Kumar emerging victorious.

The BJP is leading in 10 other seats with a margin of its candidates ranging from 63,000 to 8.21 lakh, as per the Election Commission of India website.

Notably, the BJP has managed to breach the long-standing Congress citadel Chhindwara, which it failed to capture in the 2019 elections when it had won 28 seats.

If BJP manages to win all 29 seats, it will become the first political party to achieve such a feat after 40 years in Madhya Pradesh. In the undivided MP, the Congress had won all 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in 1984.

The BJP’s Vivek Bunty Sahu on Tuesday defeated sitting Congress MP Nakul Nath in the latter’s family bastion of Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency of Madhya Pradesh by 1,13,618 votes.

Congress veteran Kamal Nath, Nakul’s father, had won from Chhindwara nine times. Kamal Nath’s wife Alka Nath too had represented it once, while Nakul Nath won from the seat in 2019.

Sahu bagged 6,44,738 votes while Nakul Nath got 5,31,120 votes.

In 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party had won 28 out of 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh, but failed to breach this Nath family stronghold.

Union Minister Virendra Kumar, a Dalit leader, retained the Tikamgarh constituency in Madhya Pradesh for the eighth time while Pankaj Choudhary is heading for a seventh term in the Lok Sabha.

Madhya Pradesh BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma on Tuesday won the Khajuraho Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 5,41,229 votes.

While the Congress has not fielded its candidate from Khajuraho as part of an INDIA alliance understanding, the Samajwadi Party’s Meera Yadav’s nomination was rejected on the grounds of technicality by the returning officer.

Sharma bagged 7,72,774 votes against the Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate, Kamlesh Kumar, who polled 2,31,545 votes.

The BJP leader has won a second consecutive term from Khajuraho. He won his maiden election from the historically important seat in 2019.

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Union Minister and BJP candidate Faggan Singh Kulaste has won from Mandla (ST) constituency in Madhya Pradesh defeating Congress’ Omkar Singh Markam by 1,03,846 votes. The six-term MP had, however, fought a tough election due to the local anti-incumbency and was trailing in the morning.

Union Minister and BJP candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia has won from his stronghold Guna constituency of Madhya Pradesh defeating Congress’ Rao Yadvendra Singh by a margin of 5,40,929. 

Mr. Scindia had lost from the seat in 2019 on a Congress ticket against the BJP’s K.P. Yadav, but had moved to BJP in 2020, bringing down Madhya Pradesh’s Kamal Nath-led Congress government. The BJP this time denied ticket to Mr. Yadav.

Union Minister and BJP candidate Virendra Kumar has won from his stronghold Tikamgarh seat of Madhya Pradesh by a margin of 4,03,312 defeating the Congress’ Pankaj Ahirwar, as per the Election Commission data.

While BJP’s Shankar Lalwani has won Indore seat, 2,18,674 votes were polled on NOTA in Indore where the Congress’ official candidate Akshay Kanti Bam had withdrawn his nomination eight days before the polling on May 7. 

Of the 94 seats the BJP won in the last three Lok Sabha elections, it leads in 79 and trails in 15 in 2024. The stronghold seats are spread across 14 States and Union Territories, although the bulk of them are in Madhya Pradesh (16), Karnataka (15) and Gujarat (15).

There are also seven seats where the party has won nine times in a row: Gandhinagar, Surat, Bhind, Bhopal, Damoh, Indore, and Vidisha. 

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While BJP candidate Shankar Lalwani is leading by 9 lakh votes, 1.63 lakh voters have cast NOTA in Indore. The Congress, with support from other parties of the INDIA bloc, urged people to go for the NOTA (None of the Above) option through various campaigns after its candidate dropped out and joined BJP on polling day.

On May 10, they took out a silent march with black armbands. They also went door-to-door with their call, sticking posters on walls and auto-rickshaws. Indore city Congress president Surjeet Chaddha told The Hindu that the party was aiming for about 3.5 to 4 lakh votes polled on NOTA.

After losing his family bastion Guna in 2019, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is leading over closest Congress competitor Yadvendra Rao Deshraj Singh in the Guna Lok Sobha seat by a margin of 1,26,168 votes.

Former Madhya Pradesh CM and BJP candidate from Vidisha, Shivraj Singh Chouhan leading by a margin of 1,88,350 votes

BJP now leads on 29 seats as the saffron party seeks to rob Congress’ lone seat - Chhindwara, held by Nakul Nath - ex-CM Kamal Nath’s son. Among the two former Chief Ministers in fray in Madhya Pradesh, BJP’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan is currently leading on Vidisha constituency by over 96,000 votes, while Congress’ Digvijaya Singh is trailing from Rajgarh seat by 10,890 votes

As counting kicks off, BJP takes an early lead on 23 seats, while the Congress took the lead on the Mandla (ST) constituency. On the Mandla seat, Congress’ Omkar Singh Markam is leading against Union Minister and BJP candidate Faggan Singh Kulaste.

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