In the recent Lok Sabha elections, several candidates clinched victories with astonishingly high margins, setting new records for electoral dominance.
Leading the pack is Shankar Lalwani, the incumbent MP from Indore representing the Bhartiya Janta Party, who secured a staggering victory margin of 11.72 lakh votes.
Following closely behind is Rakibul Hussain of the Congress, who scored the second-highest victory margin with 10.12 lakh votes from Dhubri in Assam.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan secured victory from Vidisha with a margin of 8.21 lakh votes, ranking third in the list of highest victory margins.
CR Patil of the Bhartiya Janta Party from Navsari in Gujarat recorded a significant margin of 7.73 lakh votes.
Closely trailed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who won from Gandhinagar by over 7.44 lakh votes.
Candidates With Margin Of 5 Lakh Votes
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia secured victory from Madhya Pradesh's Guna constituency with a margin of over 5.40 lakh votes.
Rajpalsingh Jadav from Panchmahal won with a margin of 5.09 lakh votes, and Hemang Joshi from Vadodara with a margin of 5.82 lakh votes.
Alok Sharma from Bhopal clinched victory with a margin of 5.01 lakh votes, while Sudheer Gupta from Mandsour won with a margin exceeding 5 lakh votes.
Furthermore, the BJP's Mahesh Sharma emerged victorious from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddha Nagar by a margin of 5.59 lakh votes, while in Chattisgarh, Brijmohan Agarwal secured victory from Raipur with an impressive margin of 5.75 lakh votes.
Earlier Records
These victories surpassed previous records, including the one held by Pritam Munde from Beed in Maharashtra, who won a bypoll in 2014 with a margin of over 6.96 lakh votes.
CR Patil, with a previous margin of 6.89 lakh votes, now broke his own record.
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