In Jammu Lok Sabha seat, which has 20 assembly segments, the BJP took lead on 15 assembly segments followed by the Congress on five segments. Nearly 39.6 lakh electronic voting machines and 17.4 lakh paper trail or voter-verifiable paper trail (VVPAT) machines were used in these polling stations. However, the Congress party gathered 19.5 per cent of the total votes. This is almost double the number of votes garnered by the Congress. Similarly, in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh where Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party entered into a pre-poll alliance, the BJP won 62 seats with 4,28,57,454 votes while the Congress managed to win just 1 seat with 54,57,269 votes. Some other states where BJP, along with its allies, apparently made a clean sweep are Gujarat (BJP got 1,80,91,484 votes), Bihar (BJP got 96,222,724 votes), Maharashtra (BJP got 1,49,12,139 votes), Rajasthan (BJP got 1,89,68,392 votes) and Madhya Pradesh (BJP got 2,14,06,887 votes). According to poll officials, it is the highest margin of victory for any successful candidate in Jammu and Kashmir till now. There was increase of 12 per cent in the vote share of the BJP from 2014 Lok Sabha elections in which the saffron party polled 34.40 per cent votes, the data said. As the political discourse went into a downward spiral and complaints piled up in the Election Commission against various leaders - including the Prime Minister and the BJP chief Amit Shah - the Supreme Court asked for a prompt resolution. Jitendra Singh polled 7,24,311 or 61.38 per cent votes. The BJP, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, has also expanded its geographic reach in terms of the electoral success. The BJP victory in 2019 has been driven by a sharp spike in its vote share. Exit polls have predicted that the BJP will make major inroads into Bengal, and Odisha - two states where it has little presence. BJP's Jugal Kishore defeated Raman Bhalla of the Congress by 3,02,875 votes in the Jammu seat. (File Photo: PTI). In terms of vote share, the BJP garnered approximately 37.4 per cent of the votes in this election and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as a whole, received approximately 45 per cent of the vote. As per official data released by EC, the BJP has taken 46.4 per cent vote share by securing 16,48,041 votes out of total 3,479,155 votes polled in multi-phased elections in six Lok Sabha seats in the state. You can find out more by clicking In West Bengal, the BJP made inroads by winning 18 seats and got around 2,30,28,343 votes - much more than the Indian National Congress which got just 32,10,485 votes and won only two seats. The Samajwadi Party (SP) won only 5 seats and BJP's ally Apna Dal (S) got two seats. Initial returns showed the BJP leading in all 303 constituencies it eventually won, and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi conceded defeat prior to the official certification of most results. © COPYRIGHT NDTV CONVERGENCE LIMITED 2020. Sources said Mayawati has conveyed her desire to be Prime Minister to one of the southern leaders who met her recently, saying her party would support "whoever supports me for Prime Minister". Rahul Gandhi, who said he wants to play on the front foot, has inducted sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra into active politics and placed her in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, where PM Modi's constituency Varanasi and Gorakhpur, the stronghold of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, is located. He polled 42,914 votes (33.94 per cent) The Congress, which contested five seats in Jammu and Kashmir and lost all, polled 1,011,527 votes taking 28.5 per cent share of total votes polled, statistics said. Around 10.35 lakh polling stations were set up across the country this year, as compared to nearly 9.28 lakh set up during 2014 polls. 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