Biggest win margin: Patil’s 6.89 lakh in Guj

New Delhi, May 24

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The BJP’s CR Patil came close to shattering the all-time record of victory margin in a parliamentary election when he defeated his Congress rival in the Navsari Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat by a difference of 6.89 lakh votes — the highest in the 2019 polls.

His margin was just a shade lower than the 6.96 lakh record set by Pritam Munde in October 2014 when she won the byelection to Beed seat in Maharashtra after the untimely death of her father and former Union minister Gopinath Munde.

The lowest margin of victory, too, was with a BJP candidate when Bholanath managed to win the Machhlishahr seat in Uttar Pradesh by only 181 votes. So, the feat of winning a parliamentary constituency by both the highest and the lowest margin in the Lok Sabha poll belongs to candidates of the BJP.

Patil has party colleagues Sanjay Bhatia, Krishan Pal Gurjar and Subhash Chandra Baheria in the 6 lakh-plus club, while about a dozen other candidates have won by over 5 lakh margin.

PM Narendra Modi widened his victory margin to 4.79 lakh votes in Varanasi. BJP chief Amit Shah won his maiden Lok Sabha election by a huge margin of 5.57 lakh votes from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, bettering senior party leader LK Advani’s margin of 4.83 lakh votes in 2014. — PTI

6 lakh club

Leader Margin (in L)

Sanjay Bhatia (Karnal) 6.56

Krishan Gurjar (F’bad) 6.38 

SC Baheria (Bhilwara)  6.12