The Aryavarth Express
Agency (New Delhi): In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, five candidates shattered previous records for the highest victory margins, with Indore’s incumbent MP Shankar Lalwani of the BJP topping the list with a winning margin of 11.72 lakh votes.
The Congress’s Rakibul Hussain secured the second-highest victory margin with 10.12 lakh votes from Dhubri in Assam. Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan achieved the third-highest margin, winning from Vidisha by 8.21 lakh votes. The BJP’s CR Patil recorded a margin of 7.73 lakh votes from Navsari in Gujarat, while Union Home Minister Amit Shah won from Gandhinagar by over 7.44 lakh votes.
The previous record for the highest winning margin was held by Pritam Munde of the BJP, who won a bypoll in October 2014 from Beed in Maharashtra by more than 6.96 lakh votes. CR Patil, a three-term MP from Navsari, had previously held the second-highest margin with 6.89 lakh votes in 2019, and he has now broken his own record.
Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia won from Guna in Madhya Pradesh by more than 5.40 lakh votes. Other notable candidates with margins over 5 lakh votes include BJP’s Rajpalsingh Jadav from Panchmahal (5.09 lakh) and Hemang Joshi from Vadodara (5.82 lakh), Alok Sharma from Bhopal (5.01 lakh), and Sudheer Gupta from Mandsour (over 5 lakh).
BJP’s Mahesh Sharma won from Gautam Buddha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh by 5.59 lakh votes, while Brijmohan Agarwal from Raipur in Chhattisgarh secured a margin of 5.75 lakh votes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won by more than 1.52 lakh votes from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi improved upon Sonia Gandhi’s 2019 victory margin in Rae Bareli, winning by more than 3.90 lakh votes. Gandhi also won from Wayanad in Kerala by a margin of over 3.64 lakh votes.
Former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb of the BJP won from Tripura West by over 6 lakh votes, while Kriti Dev Debbarman of the BJP secured the Tripura East constituency by a margin of more than 4.86 lakh votes.