Election 2019 Results: Of major gains and some losses

BJP president Amit Shah won by 557 lakh votes against Congress CJ Chavda in Gandhinagar Known as an astute strategist whose nonpolitical interests range from playing chess and watching cricket to stage performances and classical music 54yearold Shah is often hailed as the BJPs most successful president for crafting its way to power state after stateShah took over as the BJP president soon after NDA emerged victorious in the 2014 general elections A trusted lieutenant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi he was appointed party incharge of Uttar Pradesh just ahead of the 2014 national electionsFor the 2019 elections he deployed over 7000 leaders for nearly 500 poll committees across the country with special focus on 120 seats that the BJP had lost in 2014 and brought in 3000 fulltimers across parliamentary seats Leading from the front Shah held over 161 rallies and visited over 312 Lok Sabha seats clocking over 158 lakh km more than any other leaderINC president Rahul Gandhi at a press conference in New Delhi after the resultsRahul respects peoples decisionCongress president Rahul Gandhi was ahead of P P Suneer in the Wayanad seat by about 431 lakh votes clearly heading for a win but lost Amethi to BJPs Smriti IraniGandhi won 331305 votes while Irani won 378863 votes Dismissed as Pappu by some and crown prince by others Gandhi appeared to take the poll debacle on the chin congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP and expressing hope that Irani takes care of Amethi with love At a press conference he said the CWC will decide on whether he should resign as party chief following the electoral debacle The Congress could manage to add only a few seats to its 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 44 seats I congratulate Narendra Modiji and BJP for their electoral victory People of India have decided that Narendra Modi will be the PM again and I fully respect that Gandhi saidRajnath Singh won the Lucknow seat with a striking marginRajnath wins with margin of 34 lakh votesUnion Home Minister Rajnath Singh has won the Lucknow seat with a margin of 34 lakh votes In 2014 he had won with a margin of 272 lakh Singh polled a total of 627881 votes while his nearest rival Poonam Sinha of Samajwadi Party got 282858 votes The Congress candidate Acharya Pramod Krishna polled 178904 votes In a series of tweets Singh said the people of the country have once again given a decisive mandate to the BJPled National Democratic Alliance NDA and reposed their faith in PM Modis leadership and vision This historic victory in the General Elections is the outcome of Modijis visionary leadership Amit Shahjis dynamism and the hard work of millions of BJP karyakartas on the ground he tweeted adding Modi is now all set to build a New IndiaShashi Tharoor said he felt like a batsman who has scored a century while his team has lost PicPTITharoor wins for the third timeShashi Tharoor had a third straight win from Thiruvananthapuram with 333415 votes over his nearest rival of the BJP He said he felt like a batsman who has scored a century while his team has lost Since 1997 we never had such a good result in Kerala We are winning 19 and we may as well all 20 seats The state has become an exemplar for what the politics of the Congress nationally could be I just hope we will be able to build from the very disappointing result nationally because ours is the right message for future growth and prosperity in India he saidNitin Gadkari waves to supporters outside his residence in Nagpur PicPTIBad weather prevents Gadkari from joining celebrationsSenior BJP leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari was conspicuous with his absence at the BJPs victory function held after its meeting He was flying to the national capital to attend the party meeting after its stupendous victory in general elections but could not land because of bad weather as his plane was diverted to Lucknow Thursday his office said Gadkari from Nagpur with 283332 votesSonia Gandhi won by a margin of 167178 voteSonia Gandhi wins from RaebareliCongress leader Sonia Gandhi won from the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat defeating her nearest rival BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh Gandhi won by a margin of 167178 votes the Election Commissions website said While Gandhi got 534918 votes Singh secured 367740 votes Amethi on Thursday snapped its 39 years long relationship with the Gandhi family Sonia Gandhi entered politics and won the Amethi seat which she retained till 2004 Rahul Gandhi won the seat in 2004 2009 and 2014Modi won the seat by a margin of 479505 votes PicAFPModi thanks Varanasi for victoryPrime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the people of Varanasi as he retained the seat by a margin of over 479 lakh votes In a tweet he said the people of Kashi are remarkable When I had gone to Kashi to file my nomination papers they confidently said that they would manage the entire campaign without me having to come back even once and manage they did I bow to the citizens of Kashi Looking forward to serving them Modi said He won the seat by a margin of 479505 votes defeating his nearest rival Shalini Yadav of Samajwadi Party according to the Election Commissions website Modi on Thursday removed the chowkidar prefix from his Twitter handle He had added it after launching the Main Bhi Chowkidar campaign on social media Now the time has come to take the Chowkidar Spirit to the next level Keep this spirit alive at every moment and continue working for Indias progress he tweetedPragya Singh celebrates with supporters PicPTIThe monk who cursed winsControversial candidate of the BJP Pragya Singh beat Digvijay Singh the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister with 866482 votes from Bhopal He received 501660 votes Her campaign was marred by her remarks on Nathuram Godse whom she called a patriot She also claimed that former Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare died due to her curseBJP Bengaluru South candidate Tejasvi Surya at a counting centre PicPTIBJPs rising star wins in BangaloreBJPs firsttime contestant and its young turk Tejaswi Surya won with 736 605 votes against Congress Rajya Sabha member BK Hariprasad in the highprofile Bangalore SouthGautam Gambhir began his second innings with a good startCentury on debut Gambhir set for second innings in the political gameGautam Gambhir in cricketing parlance hit a century on debut winning his maiden Parliament elections by a massive margin He sort of demolished his opponents securing close to seven lakh votes leaving close rivals mdash Congress Arvinder Singh Lovely and AAPs Aatishi Marlena mdash way behind He was leading with 696156 votes As a player Gambhir certainly wasnt the most talented in the Indian setup which boasted the likes of Sachin Tendulkar Virender Sehwag VVS Laxman Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid but it was his big heart that made him indispensable between 20072011 something he would like to bring to his political career But politics will be an entirely different ball game The pitch will be very 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