Closest Margin Lok Sabha Constituencies

2019 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by margin (votes)

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the closest result was in Machhlishahr (Uttar Pradesh), where Bholanath (B.P. Saroj) (Bharatiya Janata Party) won by just 181 votes (0.00% margin). The full ranked list of the top 25 constituencies is below — click any constituency to see its complete candidate-wise result.

Difference in votes between the winner and the runner-up. Smaller = closer race.

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Rank Constituency State Winner Party Margin (votes)
1 Machhlishahr SC Uttar Pradesh Bholanath (B.P. Saroj) Bharatiya Janata Party 181 (0.00%)
2 Lakshadweep ST Mohammed Faizal Pp Nationalist Congress Party 823 (1.80%)
3 Arambagh SC West Bengal Aparupa Poddar (AFRIN ALI) All India Trinamool Congress 1,142 (0.10%)
4 Andaman and Nicobar Islands Kuldeep Rai Sharma Indian National Congress 1,407 (0.70%)
5 Khunti ST Jharkhand Arjun Munda Bharatiya Janata Party 1,445 (0.20%)
6 Jahanabad Bihar Chandeshwar Prasad Janata Dal (United) 1,751 (0.20%)
7 Chamarajanagar SC Karnataka V. Srinivas Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 1,817 (0.10%)
8 Burdwan Durgapur West Bengal S.S Ahluwalia Bharatiya Janata Party 2,439 (0.20%)
9 Chidambaram SC Tamil Nadu Thirumaavalavan Thol Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi 3,219 (0.30%)
10 Koraput ST Odisha Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka Indian National Congress 3,613 (0.30%)
11 Guntur Andhra Pradesh Jayadev Galla Telugu Desam Party 4,205 (0.30%)
12 Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh M V V Satyanarayana Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party 4,414 (0.40%)
13 Aurangabad Maharashtra Imtiaz Jaleel Syed All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen 4,492 (0.40%)
14 Meerut Uttar Pradesh Rajendra Agarwal Bharatiya Janata Party 4,729 (0.40%)
15 Bhongir Telangana Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy Indian National Congress 5,219 (0.40%)
16 Shrawasti Uttar Pradesh Ram Shiromani Bahujan Samaj Party 5,320 (0.50%)
17 Zahirabad Telangana B.B.Patil Telangana Rashtra Samithi 6,229 (0.60%)
18 Muzaffarnagar Uttar Pradesh Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Bharatiya Janata Party 6,526 (0.60%)
19 Srikakulam Andhra Pradesh Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu Telugu Desam Party 6,653 (0.60%)
20 Anantnag Jammu and Kashmir Hasnain Masoodi Jammu & Kashmir National Conference 6,676 (5.30%)
21 Kanker ST Chhattisgarh Mohan Mandavi Bharatiya Janata Party 6,914 (0.60%)
22 Rohtak Haryana Arvind Kumar Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party 7,503 (0.60%)
23 Mizoram ST Mizoram C Lalrosanga Mizo National Front 8,140 (1.60%)
24 Maldaha Dakshin West Bengal Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury (DALU) Indian National Congress 8,222 (0.60%)
25 Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh Kesineni Srinivas (NANI) Telugu Desam Party 8,726 (0.70%)

Why this list matters

Constituencies with the closest margins are the bellwethers of Indian electoral politics. A seat won by a few hundred or even a few thousand votes is one where a small shift in turnout, alliance arithmetic, or local sentiment can flip the result entirely. These "marginal seats" are where parties concentrate campaign resources, where star candidates are sometimes parachuted in, and where post-result petitions and recounts happen most often.

Click any constituency above to see the full candidate list, vote shares, and historical context.

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