Highest NOTA Vote Lok Sabha Constituencies

2014 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by nota votes

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the most NOTA votes were cast in Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu) — 46,559 NOTA votes (3.70% of votes polled). The full ranked list of the top 25 constituencies is below — click any constituency to see its complete candidate-wise result.

Number of 'None of the Above' votes cast in the constituency.

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Rank Constituency State Winner Party NOTA Votes
1 Nilgiris SC Tamil Nadu Gopalakrishnan C. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 46,559 (3.70%)
2 Nabarangpur ST Odisha Balabhadra Majhi Biju Janata Dal 44,408 (3.40%)
3 Bastar ST Chhattisgarh Dinesh Kashyap Bharatiya Janta Party 38,772 (3.00%)
4 Banswara ST Rajasthan Manshankar Ninama Bharatiya Janta Party 34,404 (2.00%)
5 Koraput ST Odisha Jhina Hikaka Biju Janata Dal 33,232 (2.60%)
6 Rajnandgaon Chhattisgarh Abhishek Singh Bharatiya Janta Party 32,384 (2.00%)
7 Dahod ST Gujarat Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Bharatiya Janta Party 32,305 (2.30%)
8 Kanker ST Chhattisgarh Vikram Dev Usendi Bharatiya Janta Party 31,917 (2.20%)
9 Sarguja ST Chhattisgarh Kamalbhan Singh Marabi Bharatiya Janta Party 31,104 (2.00%)
10 Ratlam ST Madhya Pradesh Dileepsingh Bhuria Bharatiya Janta Party 30,364 (1.80%)
11 Samastipur SC Bihar Ram Chandra Paswan Lok Jan Shakti Party 29,211 (1.90%)
12 Chhota Udaipur ST Gujarat Ramsinh Rathwa Bharatiya Janta Party 28,815 (1.90%)
13 Raigarh ST Chhattisgarh Vishnu Deo Sai Bharatiya Janta Party 28,480 (1.80%)
14 Mandla ST Madhya Pradesh Faggan Singh Kulaste Bharatiya Janta Party 28,306 (1.60%)
15 Sriperumbudur Tamil Nadu Ramachandran K.N. Thiru All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 27,676 (1.40%)
16 Singhbhum ST Jharkhand Laxman Giluwa Bharatiya Janta Party 27,037 (2.30%)
17 Betul ST Madhya Pradesh Jyoti Dhurve Bharatiya Janta Party 26,726 (1.70%)
18 Udaipur ST Rajasthan Arjunlal Meena Bharatiya Janta Party 26,685 (1.50%)
19 Begusarai Bihar Bhola Singh Bharatiya Janta Party 26,622 (1.50%)
20 Valsad ST Gujarat Dr. K.C.Patel Bharatiya Janta Party 26,606 (1.80%)
21 Keonjhar ST Odisha Sakuntala Laguri Biju Janata Dal 26,065 (1.90%)
22 Panchmahal Gujarat Chauhan Prabhatsinh Pratapsinh Bharatiya Janta Party 25,981 (1.60%)
23 Chhindwara Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath Indian National Congress 25,499 (1.80%)
24 Gadchiroli Chimur ST Maharashtra Ashok Mahadeorao Nete Bharatiya Janta Party 24,488 (1.70%)
25 Khagaria Bihar Choudhary Mahboob Ali Kaiser Lok Jan Shakti Party 23,868 (1.60%)

Why this list matters

NOTA — None Of The Above — was introduced in 2013 following a Supreme Court directive. It lets voters formally reject every candidate without invalidating their vote. The constituencies with the highest NOTA share are usually either tribal seats (where voters reject a slate of outside candidates), seats with weak local options, or seats with active "vote NOTA" campaigns by civil society groups.

NOTA votes are counted but do not affect the result — even if NOTA wins more votes than every candidate, the candidate with the most votes still gets the seat.

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