BJP’s CR Patil recorded the biggest of all-time victory margin in a parliamentary election when he defeated his Congress rival in Gujarat’s Navsari Lok Sabha seat by a difference of 6.89 lakh votes – the highest in the 2019 polls.
His margin was just a shade lower than the 6.96 lakh record set by Pritam Munde in October 2014 when she won the by-election to Beed seat in Maharashtra. Patil had won the seat in 2014 by 5,58,116 votes and in 2009 by 1,32,643 votes.
The lowest margin of victory, too, was with a BJP candidate when BP Saroj (Bholanath) managed to win the Machhlishahr seat in Uttar Pradesh by only 181 votes.
Bholanath is followed by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate from Lakshadweep Mohammed Faizal PP, who defeated his near rival by 823 votes.
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In the 17th Lok Sabha elections, BJP has won by a landslide victory with 303 seats out of 542 in the Lok Sabha polls.
Besides, Prime Minister Narendra Modi widened his victory margin to 4.79 lakh votes when he defeated his nearest rival of Shalini Yadav of Samajwadi Party in Varanasi parliamentary constituency. In 2014, he had defeated Arvind Kejriwal by 3.71 lakh votes.
On the other hand, BJP chief Amit Shah won his maiden Lok Sabha election by a huge margin of 5.57 lakh votes from Gandhinagar in Gujarat this election.