Election Results 2024: BJP wins most northern cities except Chandigarh and Ludhiana

A look at the number of seats won by the NDA and INDIA coalitions in the major northern and central cities

Women voters hold their identity cards for the camera as they queue to vote during the second round of voting near Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh

Of the 21 constituencies in the major cities of north and central India, including Delhi, Gurgaon, Bhopal and Lucknow, the NDA coalition won 19 seats, followed by the INDIA coalition with just two seats.

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Compared with 2019, the NDA coalition’s seat tally has come down by one seat while the INDIA coalition has gained one in these 21 constituencies.

Table 1 | The table shows alliance-wise wins in 2024 and change from 2019

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (Coalition: NDA) secured wins in all seven of Delhi’s constituencies, namely Chandni Chowk, East Delhi, New Delhi, North East Delhi, North West Delhi, South Delhi, and West Delhi. The BJP had bagged all seven seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as well.

The Indian National Congress (Coalition: INDIA) won from the Chandigarh and Ludhiana constituencies.

The BJP has secured seats in the two major cities of Madhya Pradesh - Bhopal and Indore - as well as several major Uttar Pradesh cities such as Agra, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Prayagraj, and Varanasi. It has also won Gurgaon and Faridabad in Haryana.

Table 2 | The table shows seat-wise winners in 2024 and 2019

In 5 of these 21 seats, the winning margin was less than 2.5% of the votes.

Table 3 | The table shows the win margin in 2024.