BJP ousted from Rajasthan by just over 1.7 lakh votes

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BJP ousted from Rajasthan by just over 1.7 lakh votes

Thursday, 13 December 2018 | IANS | Jaipur

A total of 1,39,35,201 votes went into the Congress kitty in Rajasthan while the BJP received 1,37,57,502 votes — a marginal difference of over 1.70 lakh votes that ended five years of the BJP rule.

The Congress got 39.3 per cent of the vote spread over 199 Assembly constituencies and the BJP 38.8 per cent vote. The narrow difference led to the ouster of Vasundhara Raje and her Government.

NOTA (None of the Above) accounted for 4,67,781 lakh votes, or 1.3 per cent of the vote, Rajasthan Chief Electoral Officer Anand Kumar said on Wednesday.

Independents got 9.5 per cent vote (33,72,206) and the the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 4 per cent (14,10,995 votes).

Overall, 74.69 per cent voting was recorded in Rajasthan on December 7. The statistics show independents and BSP played spoilsport for both Congress and the BJP.

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