Indian election results: Which party won how many seats

The Election Commission of India has announced the results for the 543 Lok Sabha seats, with the BJP winning 240 and the Congress 99.

While the Lok Sabha has 543 members, counting for 542 seats was conducted as the BJP's Surat candidate, Mukesh Dalal, was elected unopposed.

According to the results announced early on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to form the government for a third consecutive term, with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning a majority in the Lok Sabha, despite crushing losses in three Hindi Heartland states in a bitterly contested election that was presented as a referendum on his popularity.

The BJP won 240 seats, falling short of the 272-majority mark and needs the backing of partners in the NDA for government formation, a far cry from the 303 and 282 seats it won in 2019 and 2014, respectively, to achieve a majority on its own.

However, the NDA crossed the halfway mark with the help of crucial allies N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United), which won 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, respectively.

The Congress, which is part of the opposition INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc, won 99 seats, up from 52 in 2019, reducing the BJP's dominance in Rajasthan and Haryana.

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The Samajwadi Party maintained the INDIA bloc's morale high in Uttar Pradesh, winning 37 seats, while the Trinamool Congress (TMC), another key component of the opposition coalition, gained 29 seats in West Bengal, up from 22 in 2019. The BJP, which had won 18 seats in the previous Lok Sabha election in the state, was reduced to 12 seats.

The results did not produce the landslide win that the BJP-led NDA had anticipated or that exit polls had predicted.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 240 seats, Indian National Congress 99, Samajwadi Party 37, Trinamool Congress 29, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 22, Telegu Desham Party 16, Janata Dal (United) 12, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackrey) nine, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) eight, Shiv Sena seven, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) five, Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party four, Rashtriya Janata Dal four, Communist Party of India (Marxist) four, Indian Union Muslim League three, Aam Admi Party three, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha three, Janasena Party two, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) two, Janata Dal (Secular) two, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi two, Communist Party of India two, Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) one and independents seven.