BJP's C R Patil has the highest victory margin

Will he, won't he? BJP's C R Patil registered the highest victory margin in this Lok Sabha elections as he defeated his nearest rival by 6.89 lakh votes.

At one point, it was felt that Patil may cross Pritham Munde's record of 6.96 lakh votes in a 2014 Lok Sabha poll but he settled for the margin at 6.89 lakh.

Pritham, daughter of late Gopinath Munde, posted the record margin in October 2014 after she fought the bypolls in Beed after her father died in a car accident.

She had broken a 10-year-old record for the highest victory margin. Till then, CPI(M) MP Anil Basu has been holding the record with 5.92 lakh margin, which he registered in 2004 polls. In 2014 polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a margin of 5.70 lakh votes.

C R Patil, the sitting MP from Navsari who won by 5.58 lakh votes last time, this time has registered the victory margin over his nearest rival Dharmeshbhai Bheembhai Patel.

At least two more MPs have more than six lakh victory margin this time. Sanjay Bhatia of BJP, who fought from Haryana's Karnal, won by 6.54 lakh votes while his party colleague Subhash Baheria romped home with a 6.12 lakh margin from Rajasthan's Bhilwara.

This time there are at least 15 MPs who have a victory margin of over five lakh votes, which includes BJP chief Amit Shah. This too is a record as in 2014 polls, there were only three such candidates.

Only four times in the past 69 years of election history, there were margins of five lakh. Apart from Basu's 5.92 lakh margin, LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan, in 1989, had a victory with a margin of 5.04 lakh votes.

This time, Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi could not clear the five lakh hurdle. Modi won Varanasi by a margin of 4.79 lakh votes while Rahul bagged the Wayanad seat by a margin of 4.31 lakh votes.

When it comes to candidates winning with more than one lakh margin, a quick analysis showed, there are at least 308 such candidates as against 338 in 2014.

All the 26 winners from Gujarat, all from BJP, has a six-digit margin while 33 out of 40 in Bihar and 33 out of 38 in Tamil Nadu too have such a distinction. Karnataka's 21 winners out of 28 too have more than one lakh margin.

Madhya Pradesh too have 26 out of 29 MPs having six-digit margin while 23 out of 25 from Rajasthan and 23 out of 42 in West Bengal won in the same manner.