compare the result of this Lok Sabha election 2019 Lok Sabha election held in 2014 what are the difference
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The Indian general election, 2014 was held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha, electing members of parliament for all 543 parliamentary constituencies. Running in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014, it lasted 36 days.[4] According to the Election Commission of India, 814.5 million people were eligible to vote, with an increase of 100 million voters since the last general election in 2009,[5] making it the largest ever election in the world.[6] Around 23.1 million or 2.7% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years.[7]A total of 8,251 candidates contested for the 543 Lok Sabha seats.[8] The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections
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The BJP has maintained its near dominance in the northern and western regions of the country. It has won all Lok Sabha seats in of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, ..
Prime minister Narendra Modi greet supporters on arrival at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP photo)
Where did the BJP win and where did it lose?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has improved its seat tally of 282 in 2014 to 303 (wins and leads as of 10pm) in 2019. The BJP has maintained its near dominance in the northern and western regions of the country. It has won all Lok Sabha seats in of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. In Madhya Pradesh it has won 28 out of 29 seats. It has recovered from its big assembly election defeat in Chattisgarh. In Maharashtra, the BJP and its ally Shiv Sena has repeated their 2014 performance, winning 41 out of 48 seats. To be sure, it has suffered marginal losses in some states. The biggest of them is Uttar Pradesh, where the party’s tally has come down from 71 to 62 between 2014 and 2019. The BJP has lost two seats in Andhra Pradesh, and a seat each in Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh. In some states such as Bihar and Jharkhand, the BJP contested fewer seats than it had in 2014 to accommodate its alliance partners. The NDA’s overall tally is either the same or higher in these states. These losses have been more than compensated by the party’s gains in the states such as West Bengal, Karnataka and Odisha, where the party has registered big gains.
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Has there been a large increase in BJP’s vote share?
Even though the BJP achieved a Lok Sabha majority on its own in the 2014 elections, its vote share of 31% was not something extraordinary. The Congress failed to get past the halfway mark in the Lok Sabha despite managing a vote share higher than what the BJP had in 2014 in 1989 (39.5%) and 1991 (36.4%) elections.
The BJP has managed a vote share of 37.5% (as of 10.15pm) in the 2019 elections. While it may appear that the BJP has got disproportionately higher seats for a vote share compared to the past, it needs to be kept in mind that the BJP contested fewer seats in 2019 (436) than the Congress contested in 1989 (510) and 1991 (500). In terms of vote share in seats contested, the BJP’s is 46% in 2019 as compared to 39% in 428 seats in 2014.
It is the BJP’s increased vote share which has led to the vote share of the non-Congress non-BJP parties reaching an all time low in these elections. This underlines the rise of the BJP has the dominant political force in the country
Are the BJP’s victory margins in 2019 bigger than 2014?
The BJP’s median victory margin in the 2014 elections was 16.6% of the total votes polled. This has increased to 19.5% in 2019. The BJP has also increased its victory margin compared to 2014 for seats in the top quartile.
Three out of the top five seats by the BJP’s victory margin (in terms of percentage of votes