11-75-lakh-vote-margins-that-smashed-records

Everyone loves a winner - but this bunch of Lok Sabha candidates has made history with their victory by securing record vote margins.

BJP's Shankar Lalwani, sitting MP from the Indore Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh, led the pack of nine BJP and one Congress candidate who won with margins of more than 5 lakh votes.

 

Lalwani himself securing an eyepopping 11.75 lakh votes, Election Commission data shows.

 

Born in Indore in 1961, Lalwani was also a councillor in the Indore Municipal Corporation from 1994 to 1999 and later the chairman of the Indore Municipal Corporation. He beat his nearest rival Sanjay of the Bahujan Samaj Party, who secured 51,659 votes.

 

In 2019 Lalwani won the LS seat - held by the BJP since 1989 - by 5.47 lakh votes.

 

Considered a prestigious seat as the party has been winning from here since 1989, Indore sent Sumitra Mahajan, Lok Sabha Speaker from 2014-2019 to Parliament for eight consecutive terms.

 

In the Lok Sabha, Lalwani has been member of the Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House, Consultative Committee on Ministry of Culture and Tourism and others. 

Congress candidate Rakibul Hussain from Assam’s Dhubri constituency has almost matched Lalwani's scores. He defeated AIUDF leader Mohammed Badruddin Ajmal by more than 10.12 lakh votes.

 

A postgraduate in political science from Aligarh Muslim University, Hussain served in Tarun Gogoi's governments during 2002-2006, 2006-2011 and 2011-2016 in various capacities as Minister of State for Home, with charge of jail and home guards, border area development and HAJ. Later he was Minister of Forest and Environment, Panchayat and Rural Development,Tourism, Information and Public Relations, Printing and Stationery. 

 

BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was next after Hussain, winning the Vidisha seat by a vote margin of 8.21 lakh.

 

A record breaker of sorts, Gujarat BJP state unit president from Navsari CR Patil won by a margin of more than 7.73 lakh votes in his fourth term in 2024. In 2019, he won by a margin of more than 6.89 lakh votes

 

Union Minister of Home Affairs and sitting MP from Gujarat's Gandhinagar Amit Shah has romped home with some big numbers, beating his nearest Congress rival Sonal Ramanbhai Patel by 7.44 lakh votes. Shah won from Gandhinagar in 2019 by 5.57 lakh votes, bettering LK Advani’s record of 4.83 lakh votes. 

 

Union minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia won from Madhya Pradesh's Guna by a margin of over 5.40 lakh votes. 

 

Other big winners were BJP's Gujarat candidates Hemang Joshi from Vadodara with a margin of 5.82 lakh votes and Rajpalsingh Jadav from Panchmahal with a margin of 5.09 lakh votes

 

BJP's Alok Sharma from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh won by a 5.01 lakh margin and the party's Sudheer Gupta from Mandsour won by a 5 lakh vote margin.