JOIN USIt happened so with Nagaland People’s Front leader C M Chang, who won the Nagaland parliamentary seat by the highest margin in this year’s general election — 4.83 lakh votes — defeating his nearest rival K Asungba Sangtam of Congress.
In contrast, Namo Narain Meena of the Congress could win by a meagre margin of 317 votes, the minimum in the 15th Lok Sabha elections. Meena defeated his nearest rival Kirori Singh Bainsala who led the Gurjar agitation in Rajasthan before joining and contesting elections on a BJP ticket.
Leaders who won with the maximum margin include Congress’s Deepender Hooda who won by a margin of 4.45 lakh votes, Sonia Gandhi by 3.72 lakh, Rahul Gandhi by 3.7 lakh, NCP’s Sharad Pawar by 3.14 lakh and Baju Ban Riyan of CPI(M) by 2.92 lakh votes.
BJP’s Sushma Swaraj won by 3.89 lakh whereas Jaswant Singh clinched the Darjeeling seat by a margin of 2.53 lakh votes. Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda won the Hassan seat by a margin of 2.91 lakh votes. Among the prominent leader who won their respective constituencies by a narrow margin include former Home Minister P Chidambaram who won by 3,354 votes.