'3 lakh vs 1.5 lakh': Comparing the victory margins of Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi

With unconditional support from its allies, BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is poised to secure a third straight term in power at the Centre.

The results and trends of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 announced on June 4 indicated that the NDA has won 293 seats, while the opposition INDIA bloc has bagged 232 seats.

The BJP alone could win 240 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha. This is 63 seats short of the 303 seats that the saffron party could win in 2019. The Congress has won 99 seats, almost double the number it secured in 2019 general elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said..

PM Modi won the seat by 1,52,513 votes. Modi bagged 6,12,970 votes while his rival and Congress leader Ajay Rai received 4,60,457 votes, as per the ECI. The Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Ather Jamal Lari ended up third with 33,766 votes.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi defeated Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party with a margin of 6,74,664 votes. The Prime Minister had secured 63.62 percent of the total votes in Varanasi then.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi registered huge victories in Raebareli and Wayanad - the two seats he contested in 2024.

Rahul Gandhi won Raebareli with a margin of 3,89,341 votes. In 2019, Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi had won from family bastion Raebareli with a margin of 1,67,178 votes. In Wayanad too, Rahul Gandhi won with a margin of 3,64,422 votes. In 2019, Rahul had won from Wayanad with a margin of over 4.3 lakh votes.