Snapshot of India’s election results

NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu nationalist opposition stormed to victory on Friday, with final results showing the party become the first to win a majority in national elections in 30 years.
In all 543 constituencies, Election Commission results showed a wipeout for the ruling Congress party, under fire for economic mismanagement and graft.
Here is a snapshot of overall results so far, as well as key seats, as vote-counting continues at the climax to the mammoth six-week election.

Bharatiya Janata Party
The BJP has won 283 seats, while Congress secured 43 seats, a stunning defeat for the center-left party which secured 206 seats at the 2009 general election.
Narendra Modi, set to become the next prime minister, dealt a severe blow to rival Arvind Kejriwal, an anti-corruption champion from the upstart Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party, in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. Kejriwal lost the seat to Modi.
Modi also won the second seat that he is contesting, Vadodara in his home state of Gujarat, by 570,000 votes.
In a high-profile loss for the BJP, senior politician Arun Jaitley, tipped as a possible finance minister in a Modi government, lost the seat in the holy Sikh city of Amritsar.

Congress party
Rahul Gandhi, frontman for the Congress campaign, won in the traditional Congress stronghold of Amethi in northern India, beating BJP’s Smriti Irani, a soap opera star turned politician, by more than 100,000 votes.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi won her seat of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, by 352,713 votes, even as her party was decimated elsewhere. It could win only 43 seats. Senior government ministers Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid and Sushilkumar Shinde were routed in their seats.
Nandan Nilekani, the billionaire co-founder of software giant Infosys, who made his election debut for the Congress party, was lost the election in the IT hub of Bangalore.

Other parties
The election also saw a few regional parties make big gains.
Although Kejriwal lost, his party, making national election debut, won four seats.
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Khazagham or AIADMK, led by actress-turned-politician Jayaram Jayalalithaa, swept the southern state of Tamil Nadu, winning all the 36 seats.
In the eastern state of West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress also won all the 34 seats, leaving its rival Communist party in the lurch.
Among the biggest losers was the Bahujan Samaj Party. Led by Mayawati, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and a champion of India’s low-caste Dalit community, the party did not win any of the seats it contested.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a former Congress ally, was also left with no seats, after being shut out of its traditional power base in Tamil Nadu.