Highest NOTA Vote Lok Sabha Constituencies

2024 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by nota votes

In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the most NOTA votes were cast in Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) — 218,674 NOTA votes (8.70% 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 Bahraich SC Uttar Pradesh Anand Kumar Bharatiya Janta Party 218,674 (8.70%)
2 Villupuram SC Tamil Nadu Ravikumar. D Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi 50,470 (3.20%)
3 Dibrugarh Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Bharatiya Janta Party 43,268 (2.90%)
4 Jangipur West Bengal Khalilur Rahaman All India Trinamool Congress 42,863 (2.10%)
5 Khadoor Sahib Punjab Amritpal Singh Independent 42,152 (1.90%)
6 Dumka ST Jharkhand Nalin Soren Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 37,131 (2.50%)
7 Balaghat Madhya Pradesh Bharti Pardhi Bharatiya Janta Party 36,927 (1.90%)
8 Jhalawar Baran Rajasthan Dushyant Singh Bharatiya Janta Party 36,758 (2.50%)
9 Machhlishahr SC Uttar Pradesh Priya Saroj Samajwadi Party 35,928 (1.80%)
10 Kangra Himachal Pradesh Dr Rajeev Bhardwaj Bharatiya Janta Party 34,938 (1.90%)
11 Sundargarh ST Odisha Jual Oram Bharatiya Janta Party 34,889 (1.90%)
12 Navsari Gujarat C R Patil Bharatiya Janta Party 32,625 (1.60%)
13 Jhargram ST West Bengal Kalipada Saren (KHERWAL) All India Trinamool Congress 32,255 (1.90%)
14 Amethi Uttar Pradesh Kishori Lal Indian National Congress 32,133 (1.60%)
15 Bikaner SC Rajasthan Arjun Ram Meghwal Bharatiya Janta Party 31,803 (1.60%)
16 Nagpur Maharashtra Nitin Jairam Gadkari Bharatiya Janta Party 31,735 (1.50%)
17 Sidhi Madhya Pradesh Dr. Rajesh Mishra Bharatiya Janta Party 31,111 (1.70%)
18 Bathinda Punjab Harsimrat Kaur Badal Shiromani Akali Dal 30,709 (1.70%)
19 Shahdol ST Madhya Pradesh Smt. Himadri Singh Bharatiya Janta Party 30,168 (1.60%)
20 Samastipur SC Bihar Shambhavi Lok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas) 29,655 (1.60%)
21 Jodhpur Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Bharatiya Janta Party 28,121 (1.50%)
22 Dum Dum West Bengal Sougata Ray All India Trinamool Congress 27,460 (1.50%)
23 Chikkodi Karnataka Priyanka Satish Jarkiholi Indian National Congress 27,270 (1.60%)
24 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Shashi Tharoor Indian National Congress 26,964 (1.40%)
25 Nizamabad Telangana Arvind Dharmapuri Bharatiya Janta Party 26,450 (1.10%)

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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