Among the major parties, the BJP won 75 of its 239 candidates (31%) with less than 50% of the vote, while the Indian National Congress won 57 of its 99 candidates (58%) with less than 50% of the vote.
Among regional parties, the Samajwadi Party won 32 of 37 seats (86%), the APC won 21 of 29 seats (72%), and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won 14 of 22 seats (64%) with less than 50% of the vote.
Of the 251 candidates with criminal histories, 106 (42%) were elected with more than 50% of the vote, while of the 291 candidates with no criminal records, 173 (59%) received more than 50% of the vote.
Of the 503 crorepati candidates, 262 (52%) were elected with more than 50% of the votes, while 17 (44%) of the 39 non-crorepati candidates achieved the same percentage.
Winners in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will represent, on average, 33.44% of all voters, down from 35.46% in 2019. This indicates a decline in the representativeness of winning candidates compared to the number of voters.
Five of the winners won by fewer than 2,000 votes, while the other five won by more than 50% of the vote.
Notable victories include Shivraj Singh Chouhan (BJP) in Vidisha, who won with a margin of 56.43 percent, and Shankar Lalwani (BJP) in Indore, who won with a margin of 64.54 percent.
Of the 542 successful candidates, 74 were women. Kriti Devi Debbarman (BJP) from Eastern Tripura secured the highest vote share among the women candidates with 68.54 percent of the votes and a vote margin of 42.92 percent.
Of the 214 candidates who were re-elected, 101 (47%) received more than 50% of the votes. However, of the 92 candidates who were re-elected, the margin of victory was less than 10%, and only three received more than 50%.
The “Not Either” option accounted for 0.99% of the total votes cast in 2024, down from 1.06% in 2019 and 1.12% in 2014. The trend indicates a gradual decline in the use of the NOTA option by voters.
The voter turnout for the 2024 Indian Lok Sabha elections was recorded at 66.12%, a slight decrease from the 67.35% turnout in the 2019 elections.
