YSRCP, BJD and AIMIM among ‘others’ that won or led in 18 seats in Lok Sabha elections

The Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) secured the Nagina seat in Uttar Pradesh with a margin of 1,51,473 votes as its founder, Chandrashekhar Azad, defeated his rival from the state’s ruling BJP.

In Odisha, the ruling Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) Sarmistha Sethi was leading in one constituency, Jajpur, as the BJP won or was leading in most other constituencies.

Asaduddin Owaisi of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won the Hyderabad seat in Telangana by defeating the BJP’s Madhavi Latha by 3,38,087 votes.

Raj Kumar Roat of the Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) won Rajasthan’s Banswara-Dungarpur seat by a handsome margin of 2,47,054 votes over his BJP rival.

Meghalaya’s Voice of the People Party (VPP) won the Shillong seat in the Northeast state when its candidate, Dr Ricky Andrew J. Syngkonby, defeated his rival from the Congress by a margin of 3,71,910.

In neighbouring Mizoram, the lone Lok Sabha seat was secured by the ruling Zoram People’s Movement’s (ZPM) Richard Vanlalhmangaiha, who won it by a margin of 68,288 votes.

And Sikkim’s lone seat was won by the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha’s (SKM) Indra Hang Subba. The party recently won the Assembly elections by bagging 31 of the 32 seats.