NEW DELHI: The Indore Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh has set two unique record this Lok Sabha election. As results pour in, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Shankar Lalwani secured a victory with a record margin of 10,08,077.
BJP’s sitting MP from Indore Shankar Lalwani won and managed to get 12,26,751 seats. He defeated Bahujan Samaj Party’s Sanjay Solanki who got 51,659 seats.
But in a unique record, No.2 position was secured by ‘None of the above’ (NOTA) with 2,18,674 votes. A total of 14.01 per cent voters opted for this option.
In the 2019 parliamentary polls, voters in Bihar’s Gopalganj had created a record with 51,660 of them, or five per cent, opting for the NOTA option, which is placed as the last option on the electronic voting machine.
BJP’s sitting MP from Indore Shankar Lalwani won and managed to get 12,26,751 seats. He defeated Bahujan Samaj Party’s Sanjay Solanki who got 51,659 seats.
But in a unique record, No.2 position was secured by ‘None of the above’ (NOTA) with 2,18,674 votes. A total of 14.01 per cent voters opted for this option.
In the 2019 parliamentary polls, voters in Bihar’s Gopalganj had created a record with 51,660 of them, or five per cent, opting for the NOTA option, which is placed as the last option on the electronic voting machine.
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In 2014, NOTA polled 46,559 votes in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu by pocketing nearly five per cent of votes.
In Indore, the Congress candidate Akshay Kanti Bam had withdrew his nomination on April 29, on the last date for the withdrawal of nominations. He later joined the BJP.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Indore recorded a 69 per cent turnout with 5,045 voters opting for NOTA.
(With PTI inputs)