2019 Elections - Historic vote share, 46%

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Voters have given unprecedented mandate to Modi and NDA even after incumbency! 46%!

Hope the government delivers some concrete development in next 5 year's.

Nearly 1 in 2 voter voted for NDA and probably based on ensuring Modi remains PM. Just hope local NDA MPs are aware of these sacrifices and don't ignore local issues

 

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/five-key-takeaways-from-verdict-2019

 

Forty-six per cent—that’s the vote share that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has clocked in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in 2014 with 31 per centvote share for itself and about 8 per cent for its allies, it was subjected to incessant mocking about not having a majority. Never mind that no party had touched 40 per centvote share since the 1984 election.

 

PM Modi and the BJP President Amit Shah seem to have remediated this complaint their detractors had. 46 per centis a historic number, doubly so in a re-election. The only leaders who have breached this figure in independent India were Jawahar Lal Nehru back in 1957 and Rajiv Gandhi in 1984.

 

Nehru led Congress to a win with a 47.8 per centvote share. But there’s a key difference between then and now—Nehru faced virtually no opposition in 1957. Modi was up against the most vicious and personal hate-mongering campaign by the opposition, ably supported by those who are part of the Khan Market consensus. Rajiv’s historic election came up right after the assassination of Indira Gandhi—much of that vote share was due to the ‘sympathy vote’.

This is what Indian election winners have clocked over the years.

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still 5% behind the majority mark.

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Following is a list of the "losers".
It sure gives many, so much of satisfaction :

1) Kanhaiya Kumar 
2) Digvijay Singh
3) Satrughan Sinha
4) Sharad Yadav
5) Raj Babbar
6) Rahul Gandhi
7) Jitin Prasad
8) Salman Khurshid 
9) Mehbooba Mufti
10) Shibu Soren
11) Harish Rawat
12) Misa Bharti
13) Sheila Dixit
14) Ajay Maken
15) Dimple Yadav
16) Raghuvansh Prasad
17) Kumari Shailaja 
18) Mallikarjun Kharge
19) Jyotiraje Scindia
20) Priya Dutt
21) Milind Deora
22) Sushil Kumar Shinde
23) Mira Kumar
24) HD Devegowda
25) Vaibhav Gehlot 
26) Manavendra Singh 
27) Shivpal Yadav
28) Dimple Yadav
29) RPN Singh 
30) Subodh Kant Sahai
31) Renuka Chaudhary
32) Upendra Kushwaha
33) Sanjay Nirupam
34) Ashok Chavan
35) Bhupendra Hooda
36) Deependra Hooda
37) Kirti Azad 
38) Imran Masood
39) Ajit Singh 
40) Nikhil Kumaraswamy
41) Urmila Matondkar

42) Veerappa Moily

43) Nikhil Kumaraswamy

44) Supriya Sule (Sharad Pawar's daughter)

45) Prakash Raj (of tukde tukde famous)

46) Moon Moon Sen

Note : Sharad Pawar is a 'wise' man - he did not contest.

Edited May 24, 2019 by coffee_rules
To add a few more losers

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Kanhaiya and atishi getting thrashed gave me great satisfaction