TRS' Warangal Election Majority 7th Highest In India

TRS candidate Pasunuri Dayakar's victory in the Warangal Lok Sabha by-election by a massive 4,53,445-vote majority has entered Indian electoral history as the seventh highest.

BJP candidate Preetham Munde holds the all-time record after registering a victory by a majority of more than seven lakh votes in the 2014 general elections. CPM candidate Anil Basu from Aramghar in West Bengal holds the second position with a 5,92,502-vote majority. Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao is in third place with a 5.80-lakh-vote majority.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself is in the fourth place with the 5.7-lakh-vote majority by which he won in the 2014 general elections, from Vadodara in Gujarat. The fifth position is held by YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who in the 2011 elections registered a victory with a 5.45-lakh-vote majority in the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency. And Janata Dal leader Ram Vilas Paswan with a victory by a majority of 5.4 lakh votes stands in the sixth position.

In the Warangal election Dayakar's nearest rival and Congress candidate Sarve Satyanarayana got 1,54,986 votes, while the BJP-TDP combine nominee Devaiah polled 1,30,178 votes. Both the Congress and the BJP-TDP combine candidates lost their deposits, as also did all the other contestants. (Candidates who do not poll at least one-sixth of the total votes lose their deposits.)