[nukkad] Election Results - Update

["Milind Sathe" <Milind.Sathe@geac.com>]

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Here is an update for those who dont have internet access.

Milind

BJP wins 38 seats; Congress gets 13
The Bharatiya Janata Party has swept Delhi as counting picked up tempo for the
13th Lok Sabha today. The party has also made impressive gains in Haryana.

However, the party has suffered reverses in Punjab, where the Congress is making
 significant gains.

According to Monu Nalapat, professor of geopolitics, Manipal Academy and
contributing editor,The Times of India, "The central fact of this election is
that neither Vajpayee nor Sonia Gandhi appears to have enthused the electorate
on anything like the scale in which they won over the media."

After having established an early lead by winning two seats of Jaipur and Ajmer
in Rajasthan, the BJP is now leading in five constituencies, while the Congress
is ahead in eight.

Contrary to expectations, the Congress seems to be surging ahead in Karnataka.
It may also improve its tally in Madhya Pradesh if the present leads are any
indication.

The BJP-Telugu Desam Party may sweep the LS and assembly elections in Andhra
Pradesh.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has so far won 38 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress
has bagged 13. The Left Front and others have won three seats.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has won the Lucknow seat with a massive
margin.

Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani has won the Gandhinagar seat.

Former Union finance minister Manmohan Singh has lost the Delhi South seat by
over 30,000 votes.

Vijay Goel, Anita Arya and Jagmohan (all BJP) have been declared elected from
Chandni Chowk, Karol Bagh and Delhi seats respectively.

The lose of Karol Bagh is a major setback for the Congress as it had won only
that seat in the 1998 Lok Sabha election.

The BJP has also won the Panaji, Ahmedabad and Coimbatore seats. The party has
also won both the Goa seats.

The Congress has bagged the Ernakulam seat.


Sudip Bandopadhayay of the Trinamul Congress defeated Siddhartha Shankar Roy of
the Congress by 94,200 votes in a triangular contest in Calcutta North West. The
 party retains the seat.

The Trinamul Congress has also bagged the Shampur seat.

The BJP is leading in 237 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress is leading in 125.
Others are leading in 68 seats.

Pushp Jain of the BJP defeated sitting Congress candidate Meetha Lal Jian in
Nagaur by a margin of 146,066 votes.

In Rajnandgaon in MP, former chief minister Motilal Vora of the Congress was
trailing by 20,000 votes behind Dr Raman of the BJP.

In Chhindwara, MP, former Union minister Kamal Nath of the Congress was leading
by 80,000 votes over his nearest rival, Santosh Jain of the BJP. Former chief
minister Shyama Charan Shukla of the Congress was leading by 5,000 votes over
nearest rival Chandra Shekhar Sahu of the BJP.

In Bhubaneswar, Orissa, Prasanna Kumar Patsani of the Biju Janata Dal was
leading by 39,375 votes over his nearest rival, Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj of
 the Congress.

In Jagatsinghpur, also in Orissa, Trilochan Kanungo of the BJD was leading by
669 votes over his nearest rival Ranjib Biswal of the Congress.

In Kapadwanj, Gujarat, former chief minister Shankarsinh Vaghela of the Congress
 was leading by 2,250 votes over his nearest rival Jaisinh Chauhan of the BJP.

IUML national president G M Banatwala was leading by 58,081 votes over his
nearest rival P P Suneer (CPI-LDF) in Ponnani, Kerala.

In Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Union Minister of State for Urban Development
Bandaru Dattatreya of the BJP has defeated his nearest rival Nadendla Bhaskara
Rao of the Congress.

Purno A Sangma of the National Congress Party is leading over his nearest rival,
 Atul C Marak of the Congress, by 78,964 votes in Tura, Meghalaya.

In Phulbani, Orissa, Padmanav Behera of the Biju Janata Dal was leading by 4,800
 votes over his nearest rival Mrutyunjaya Nayak of the Congress.

In Dhenkanal, Orissa, K P Singdeo of the Congress is leading by 6,000 votes over
 his nearest rival Tathagat Satpathy of the BJD.

In Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, Maheshwar Singh of the BJP was leading by 115,000
votes over his nearest rival Kaul Singh of the Congress.

In Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Shanta Kumar of the BJP led by 60,000 votes over
his nearest rival Sat Mahajan of the Congress.

In Varanasi, Shankar Prasad Jaiswal of the BJP leads his nearest rival Rajesh
Mishra of the Congress by 3,000 votes after the completion of the first round.

Former Bajrang Dal president Jaibhan Singh Pavaiya of the BJP defeated
Chandramohan Nagori of the Congress by 83,116 votes in a multicornered contest
in Gwalior.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and former Union minister Murasoli Maran won
the Madras Central seat, defeating his nearest rival, INL leader M A Latheef.

In Hajipur, Bihar, Janata Dal (United) candidate Ramvilas Paswan is leading over
 Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Ramai Ram by 15,000 votes in Hajipur
constituency.

In Lakhimpur, Assam, Asom Gana Parishad candidate Sarbananda Sonowal is leading
over his nearest Congress Candidate, Ranee Narah, by over 1,200 votes.

Dr Subramanian Swamy (Janata Party), sitting member, has been trounced in the
Madurai Lok Sabha constituency. He secured just 21,000 votes.

In Bangalore North, former Union minister C K Jaffer Sharief is leading by
13,599 votes.

In Bombay South Central, Mohan Rawle of the Shiv Sena leads by 15,143 votes over
 Majid Memon of the Samajwadi Party at the end of the 5th round of counting.

Murli Deora of the Congress leads by 1,743 votes over Jaywantiben Mehta (BJP) at
 the end of the third round of counting in Bombay South.

Jayaben Thakkar of the BJP was leading by 900 votes over her nearest rival
Urmilaben Patel of the Congress.

V S Sivakumar (Congress) is leading by 10,295 votes over his nearest Communist
Party of India rival Kaniyapuram Ramachandran, when 76 per cent of the votes
were counted in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.

Baddam Bal Reddy of the BJP is leading by 29,887 votes over his nearest Majlis
Ittehadul Muslimeen rival Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi in Secunderabad.

Jaibhan Singh Pavaiya of the BJP leads by more than 50,000 votes over Chandra
Mohan Nagori of the Congress in Gwalior.

Prasanna Kumar Patsani of the Biju Janata Dal was leading by over 13,000 votes
over his nearest rival Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mard




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