Rakibul Hussain of the Indian National Congress was one of 13 candidates who contested the Lok Sabha elections from Dhubri constituency in Assam and won by the largest margin in the country. The 59-year-old Hussain polled 1,471,885 votes and won by a margin of 1,012,476 votes. His nearest rival for the seat was perfume magnate and former Lok Sabha MP Mohammed Badruddin Ajmal, who secured 459,409 votes. Prior to contesting the state elections, Hussain represented Samaguri parliamentary constituency in the Assam Assembly from 2021. He also served as Minister of State for Prisons, Home Guard and Border Areas Development during the Tarun Gogoi government from 2002 to 2006.
From 2006 to 2011, the newly elected MP also served as the state’s Minister for Environment, Forests, Information and Public Relations.
Read: TDP eyes five ministerial posts at the Centre, ally Jana Sena eyes two. Another leader on the list enjoying overwhelming public support is Shankar Lalwani of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who won in the Indore constituency in Madhya Pradesh. Lalwani secured 1,226,751 votes, winning by a margin of 1,008,077 votes. The runner-up in the constituency was Sanjay Solanki of the Bahujan Samaj Party, who secured 510,659 votes. Indore alone, one of the 29 assembly districts in Madhya Pradesh, received 218,674 NOTA votes. The Indian National Congress Party has been campaigning aggressively for NOTA among the people after its candidate Akshay Kanti Bham withdrew his nomination in the April 29 elections and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and five-time MP Shivraj Singh won his sixth Lok Sabha election from Vidisha constituency by securing a total of 1,116,460 votes.
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Chouhan’s rival for the seat was former Congress member and veteran Indian National Congress Party leader Pratap Bhanu Sharma, but he lost by a margin of 821,408 votes.
Vidisha constituency is considered Chouhan’s stronghold and he won in the Lok Sabha elections in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004. He has consistently faced off against Congress candidates from the constituency.
CR Patil, the BJP’s Gujarat president since 2020 and the incumbent MP from Navasri, won with the largest margin of victory in the state. He won by a margin of 773,000 votes, while his rival Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Naishadbhai Bhupatbhai Desai got 257,514 votes.
BJP leader Amit Shah won his second consecutive term in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat by a margin of 744,716 votes, securing a total of 1,010,972 votes. Shah’s closest rival for the seat was Sonal Patel of the Indian National Congress, who secured 266,256 votes in the constituency. Shah was one of 14 candidates in the constituency. In the Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee won in the Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal by a margin of 710,930 votes. Banerjee secured a total of 1,048,230 votes, while his rival BJP candidate Abhijit Das secured 337,300 votes. Banerjee, 36, had secured 40.31% vote share in her electoral debut in 2014, which rose to 56.15% in 2019. Former Tripura Chief Minister and BJP leader Biplab Kumar Deb won the Lok Sabha seat in western Tripura, polling a total of 881,341 votes and winning by a margin of 611,578 votes.
His closest rival for the seat was Ashish Kumar Saha of the Indian National Congress, who won 611,578 votes in the Lok Sabha elections. Hemant Joshi of the Bharatiya Janata Party won in a landslide victory in the Vadodara constituency in Gujarat. He polled a total of 873,189 votes, winning by a margin of 582,126 votes, defeating Padiyal Jashpalsinh Mahendrasinh who polled 291,063 votes.
