| |||||||||
| NDA or BJP+ |
| Top Parties | Lead | Won |
| BJP | 0 | 282 |
| SS | 0 | 19 |
| TDP | 0 | 15 |
| SAD | 0 | 4 |
| LJP | 0 | 6 |
| AD | 0 | 2 |
| NPP | 0 | 1 |
| RLSP | 0 | 3 |
| HJC | 0 | 1 |
| NPF | 0 | 1 |
| SWP | 0 | 2 |
| ||||||||||
| UPA or CONG+ |
| Top Parties | Lead | Won |
| Cong | 0 | 44 |
| NCP | 0 | 5 |
| RJD | 0 | 4 |
| IUML | 0 | 2 |
| RLD | 0 | 0 |
| KECM | 0 | 1 |
| JKNC | 0 | 0 |
| JMM | 0 | 2 |
| BOPF | 0 | 0 |
| BVA | 0 | 0 |
| MHD | 0 | 0 |
| ||||||||||
| OTHERS |
| Top Parties | Lead | Won |
| ADMK | 0 | 37 |
| TMC | 0 | 34 |
| BJD | 0 | 18 |
| TRS | 0 | 11 |
| SP | 0 | 5 |
| CPM | 0 | 8 |
| YSRC | 0 | 9 |
| BSP | 0 | 0 |
| JDU | 0 | 2 |
| IND | 0 | 1 |
| AAP | 0 | 4 |
It's a Narendra Modi Tsunami! BJP-led NDA gets a massive mandate, Congress routed
Priyarag Verma,IBNLive.com | May 16, 2014 at 05:24pm IST
In the most decisive verdict in the last 30 years, the saffron surge swamped its rivals across the country as the Bharatiya Janata Party on its own crossed the half-way mark of 272 seats in the Lok Sabha to give India its first single-party government since 1984. With its allies the BJP reached 335 seats to give the National Democratic Alliance a comfortable cushion as the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, its principal rival, suffered a severe mauling to be reduced to double digits. While the Congress failed to cross the 50-seat mark, the BJP was comfortably placed with 285 seats.
Led by the charismatic Narendra Modi the BJP powered along the path to power leaving its rivals licking their wounds and pride. The BJP put up is best ever performance since its inception and surpassed its performance under former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in almost all the states blanking out the Congress completely is several regions.
Breaking all the caste and community barriers, the Modi juggernaut simply steamrolled through as West, North, Central, parts of East, Northeast and South India was turned saffron in colour. Constituency after constituency saw the candidates from the BJP and its allies trouncing his/her rival easily.
The BJP has won 285 seats on it own while the Congress has been reduced to just 48 seats, it lowest ever tally in a Lok Sabha election.
The massive win was made easier by a completely lacklustre Congress election campaign which came after its Central government had been completely discredited due to humungous corruption, policy paralysis, rising prices, economic slowdown, weak leadership exemplified by both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and campaigner-in-chief Rahul Gandhi, who came across as a clueless charioteer.
The Modi tsunami was so powerful that rival parties failed to open their accounts in Rajasthan and Gujarat while it states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh the opposition was left to pick up the crumbs.
Regional satraps in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were blown away as the BJP along with its partners marched on without any resistance successfully negotiating the caste quagmire. Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, Janata Dal United's Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad failed to stand up to the Modi power and meekly surrendered.
Buoyed by the huge mandate, Modi tweeted, "India has won! Bharat ki vijay. Good days are about to come." He is expected to take oath as the Prime Minister of India on May 21. The incumbent prime Minister Manmohan Singh will resign along with his Cabinet on May 17.
Except Arun Jaitley in Amritsar and Smriti Irani in Amethi, almost all the big BJP leaders won easily while a host of Congress stalwarts bit the dust. Rahul Gandhi managed to scrap through in Amethi but not before Smriti Irani had given him a tough fight.
HIGHLIGHTS-Indian election: Modi's BJP storms to historic victory
May 16 (Reuters) - Opposition candidate Narendra Modi will
be the next prime minister of India, with counting trends on
Friday showing his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed for the
country's most resounding election victory in 30 years.
Modi has promised to unblock stalled investments in power,
road and rail projects to revive economic growth that has fallen
to a decade low of below 5 percent.
Count of voting at local time 1935 (1405 GMT):
** BJP-led alliance ahead in 339 seats, BJP in 284 seats
** Congress-led alliance leading in 58 seats, Congress in 44
seats
** Seats needed for majority - 272
(Source: NDTV)
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LATEST UPDATES & REACTIONS:
** Large crowd gathers for Modi's victory rally in Vadodara,
as the 63-year-old leader addresses the nation. Modi vows to
work hard for all of India's 1.2 billion people and to work with
the opposition despite the strong mandate for his BJP party.
** Congress President Sonia Gandhi congratulates new
government. Rahul Gandhi takes responsibility for defeat.
** Outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls Modi to
congratulate him on his party's victory.
** BJP on course for strongest showing by an Indian political
party since 1984. Congress party headed towards its worst seat
tally in India's election history.
** British Prime Minister David Cameron calls Modi to
congratulate him on election success.
** "My blessings are there. The country will develop. My
blessings are there," says Modi's 95-year-old mother.
** Modi's tweet "India has won, good days are about to come"
is retweeted a record number of times in India. Celebrations
begin at BJP offices across India.
** "We accept defeat. We are ready to sit in the
opposition," senior Congress leader and spokesman Rajeev Shukla
tells reporters at party headquarters in New Delhi.
** Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken admits to errors in
the campaign. "I think that we were not able to convey to the
people the amount of work we have done ... that needed to be
communicated more to the people," he said.
** Rajnath Singh, president of the BJP, congratulates Modi
on the party's "landslide" victory in a tweet.
** Social networking website Twitter recorded more than 1.5
million election-related tweets on their website in the last 24
hours, with "Narendra Modi" the top election-related term.
PARLIAMENTARY SEAT TALLIES:
** In Modi's home state of Gujarat, BJP is on course to win
all 26 parliamentary seats, a gain of 11 seats over its 2009
tally. Modi triumphs in both his Vadodara seat and in the holy
city of Varanasi, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
** Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, scion of the
Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, leads in his Amethi constituency in Uttar
Pradesh. Congress party president Sonia Gandhi wins from her Rae
Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
** Arun Jaitley, widely seen as India's next finance
minister, loses in Amritsar, in the state of Punjab. Senior BJP
leader L K Advani wins from Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
** Sushma Swaraj of BJP wins from her Madhya Pradesh
constituency. Former BJP party president Nitin Gadkari wins in
Nagpur in the western state of Maharashtra, where the party and
its allies are leading in 44 of 48 seats.
** Interior minister of the outgoing Congress-led government
Sushil Kumar Shinde loses from his constituency in Maharashtra,
while party leader Shashi Throor retains his seat in
Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala state.
** BJP ahead in seven of 14 seats in northeastern Assam
state, where dozens of Muslims villagers were killed in a
massacre earlier in the month.
** BJP and its allies ahead in 73 of 80 seats in India's
most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, as regional parties and
Congress look set for heavy losses. In the capital, New Delhi,
the BJP is headed for a clean sweep, leading in all seven seats.
** Jayalalithaa Jayaram's AIADMK party is leading in 37 of
39 parliamentary seats in Tamil Nadu. In the eastern state of
West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress party is
leading in 34 of 42 seats.
** In the desert state of Rajasthan, the Hindu nationalist
party is leading in all 25 seats.
MARKET REACTION:
** The rupee hits 11-month high against the U.S. dollar.
Indian shares pare morning gains on profit booking and end
around 1 percent higher after hitting record highs earlier in
the day.
** The benchmark BSE index surged to as high as
25,375.63, before ending the day at 24,121.74, up 0.9 percent.
The broader NSE index jumped as much as 6.2 percent to a
record high of 7,563.50, before closing 1.12 percent higher at
7,203.
** The partially convertible rupee closes at
58.79/80 per dollar after hitting 58.62, its strongest level
since June 19.
** Puneet Bhatia, Managing Director and Country Head at TPG
Capital says: "It's a decisive mandate. And Modi will be coming
in with a burden of a lot of expectations ... reviving the
economy and bringing the growth rate back would be the major
challenge."
** Ratings agency Fitch says the new government must focus
on boosting growth, by spurring a pick-up in
investments.
** Moody's will focus on how the new government will bring
down the fiscal deficit to sustainable levels when assessing
India's credit profile.
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NOTES:
Results for the 543 seats in the lower house of parliament
are being counted at 989 centres across the country.
Source for results: Election Commission website, NDTV news
channel.
(Compiled by Aditya Kalra and Tommy Wilkes; Editing by Douglas
Busvine)
source:http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/india-election-results-idINL3N0O212X20140516
| PARTY | LEAD | WIN | L+W |  2009 | VOTE SHARE |
272 SeatsTotal Seats: 543
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | 56 | 278 | 334 | +197 | 38.77% |  |
| OTHERS | 64 | 74 | 138 | -12 | 31.82% | |
| UPA | 14 | 47 | 61 | -169 | 23.92% | |
| LEFT | 3 | 7 | 10 | -10 | 4.93% | |
| 543/543 | ||||||
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