#DataDive: The 40 Lok Sabha Seats BJP Won in 2019 With Less Than 50,000 Margin

BJP won 77 seats with less than one lakh votes. Close contests in 40 seats include Machhlishahr in UP with just 181 votes. BJP won 303 seats in 2019, and the halfway mark is 272, that is, it crossed the margin by 33 seats only.

The Wire Analysis

datadive the 40 lok sabha seats bjp won in 2019 with less than 50 000 margin

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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janaya Party (BJP)’s anxiety to forge alliances and develop a visibly seat-by-seat focus by winning over opponents, parties and winning candidates, in even northern and western India, is explained when you look at data from the Lok Sabha polls in 2019.

Narrow margin victories in 40 seats

Of its 303 seats, it won by less than 50,000 votes in as many 40 seats. This is usually considered a reversible margin. No doubt it would have secured narrow losses in constituencies, but reverses in these seats won by it would have taken its tally down to 263. 272 is the majority mark for the Lok Sabha with 543 members.

Of these 40 narrow victories, 11 were versus the Congress party, and six apiece versus the Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party and Biju Janata Dal. Four were versus the Trinamool Congress, two versus the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and one apiece versus the All India United Democratic Front, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Janata Dal (Secular) and an Independent.

Fourteen of these narrow seat victories were in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

One lakh victory margins: 77 seats

Of its 303 seats, BJP won by less than one lakh votes in 77 seats.

Of these, the maximum number of seats were won versus the Congress, that is 30 seats.

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