In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-led NDA won 292 seats, giving them a majority with 240 seats won by the BJP alone. Telugu Desam and JD(U), allies of the BJP, won 16 and 12 seats, respectively. With nearly 200 seats won, the I.N.D.I.A. alliance now holds 99 seats in the Congress. The Samajwadi Party secured 37 seats, Trinamool Congress 29 seats, and the DMK secured 22 seats.
About 1% of voters in the Lok Sabha election of 2024 chose the NOTA (None of the Above) option on electronic voting machines (EVMs). Among the main states, Bihar had the most NOTA votes cast, with 2.07% of voters choosing this choice. Following suit, 1.41% of voters in Madhya Pradesh selected NOTA.
After a Supreme Court ruling on September 27, 2013, the NOTA option was implemented in October 2013 to allow voters to express their choice to not support any candidate while still being able to exercise their right to vote.
In the Lok Sabha elections, which are being counted on Tuesday, 2.18 lakh voters in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, chose the “none of the above” option, setting a record for NOTA. Shankar Lalwani, the BJP candidate, won by a staggering margin of 10.09 lakh in Indore. NOTA was his closest rival with 2,18,674 votes.
Voters in Gopalganj, Bihar, set a record in the 2019 parliamentary elections by choosing the NOTA option, which appears as the last choice on the electronic voting system, 51,660 times, or 5% of the total.
At 3:15 PM, the Election Commission’s website showed that more than 4.62 lakh voters, or 0.99% of the total, chose to remain anonymous. 65,14,558 votes, or 1.06% of the 61,31,33,300 total votes cast in the 2019 elections, were cast in favor of NOTA. In the 2014 legislative elections, 60,02,942 votes, or 1.08% of the total, were cast for NOTA out of 55,38,02,946 votes cast.
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Lok Sabha Election 2024: NOTA sets new record in Bihar constituency
