Key Points
New Delhi:The Lok Sabha elections have thrown up a paradoxical result wherein there has been only a marginal difference in the vote shares of parties, including that of the BJP and the Congress, but there has been a significant difference in the number of seats they have won...
However, the partys vote share has declined by less than 1 percentage point since 2019..
Similarly, the Congress won 47 more seats in 2024 than it won in 2019 99 and 52 seats, respectively however, its vote share has increased by less than 2 percentage points from 19.66 percent in 2019 to 21.19 percent in 2024...
The Samajwadi Partys (SP) seats increased from just five in 2019 to 37 in 2024 with its vote share also increasing by almost 20 percentage points from 18.11 percent in 2019 to 37 percent in 2024...
For instance, in Tamil Nadu, where the BJP has not won any seat, its vote share has increased from 3.66 percent in 2019 to 11.24 percent in 2024.Similarly, in Odisha, the BJPs vote share increased from 38.4 percent in 2019 to 45.34 percent in 2024...
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