BJPs Pritam Munde, contesting from the Beed Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra on Sunday, won by nearly 7 lakh votes - the highest ever in Indias electoral history. The seat fell vacant after Pritams father and Union minister Gopinath Munde died in a car accident. According to the Election Commission, Pritam Munde bagged a total of 9,16,923 votes while her nearest rival, Ashokrao Shankarrao Patil of the Congress, secured 2,24,678 votes. Mundes margin of 6,92,245 is way above the 5.7 lakh vote margin secured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat in May. Modi later gave up the seat. However, the highest victory margin ever till October 18, 2014, was Left leader Anil Basus margin of 5,92,502 votes from Arambagh. Modis is now the third highest victory margin, followed by Ram Vilas Paswans 1989 margin of 5,04,448 votes.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 17:55:34 +0000