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The Election Commission of the country has announced the final results of a total of 542 seats in India’s 18th Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday (June 4) at 2:45 pm. In this the ruling party BJP has won in 240 seats and Congress has won in 99 seats. Samajwadi Party (SP) won 37 seats. All India Trinamool Congress won 29 seats. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won 22 seats. Janata Dal won 12 seats. Telugu Desam got 15 seats.

Shiv Sena (SHSUBT) got 8 seats and Shiv Sena (SHS) got 7 seats. Lok Jan Shakti Party won 5 seats. Communist Party of India (CPIM) won 4 seats. Nationalist Congress Party got 6 seats, Rashtriya Janta Dal 4 seats, Yuvjena Sramika Raithu Congress Party got 4 seats, Indian Union Muslim League got 3 seats and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha got 3 seats. Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKN), Janata Dal (JD-S) and Janata Dal (Secular) won 2 seats each. Besides, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Voyage of the People’s Party, Zoram People’s Movement, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAMS), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), Shiromani Akali Dal, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, Azad Samaj Party, Bharat Adhibasi Party and Sikkim Kranti Morcha won in one seat each.

From the results obtained, it is certain that the BJP cannot come to power alone. Out of total 543 Lok Sabha seats, 272 seats are required to form the government. BJP’s number of seats stands at 240. On the other hand, Congress has 99 seats. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP single-handedly won 303 seats and secured an absolute majority.