Narrowest victories in 2009 Lok Sabha election

Updated: Sunday, April 20, 2014, 22:02 [IST]

Bangalore, March 10: Results in many as 74 seats were very close in the 2009 Lok Sabha election (victory margin 15,000 votes or less). Here is a look at those seats (from the narrowest margin of victory)

No.	Vote margin	Seat	State	Winner	Party	Second	Party
1	317	Tonk-Sawai Madhopur	Rajasthan	N Narain	Congress	KS Bainsla	BJP
2	366	Hoshiarpur	Punjab	S Chowdhary	Congress	S Parkash	BJP
3	459	Chandauli	UP	Ramkishun	SP	KNS Yadav	BSP
4	618	Dadra & Nagar Haveli (ST)	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	PN Gomanbhai	BJP	DM Sanjibhai	Congress
5	838	Kozhikode	Kerala	S Chowdhary	Congress	Adv PAM Riyas	CPI(M)
6	846	Kheda	Gujarat	D Patel	Congress	CD Jesingbhai	BJP
7	1314	Arunachal West	Arunachal Pradesh	T Sanjoy	Congress	K Rijiju	BJP
8	1607	Narasaraopet	Andhra Pradesh	MV Reddy	TDP	B Vallabhaneni	Congress
9	1820	Palakkad	Kerala	MB Rajesh	CPI(M)	S Pacheni	Congress
10	2024	Davanagere	Karnataka	GM Siddeswara	BJP	SS Mallikarjuna	Congress
11	2081	Panchmahal	Gujarat	VS Laxmansinh	Congress	CP Pratapsinh	BJP
12	2147	Rajahmundri	Andhra Pradesh	AK Vundavalli	Congress	MM Mohan	TDP
13	2198	Lakshadweep(ST)	Lakshadweep	H sayeed	Congress	Dr Pookunhikoya	NCP
14	2238	Buxar	Bihar	JN Singh	RJD	LM Choubey	BJP
15	2243	Bellary(ST)	Karnataka	J Santha	BJP	NY Hanumanthappa	Congress
16	2661	Dhar (ST)	MP	GS Rajukhedi	Congress	MS Kirade	BJP
17	2797	Maharajganj	Bihar	US Singh	RJD	PN Singh	JD(U)
18	2933	Mumbai North East	Maharashtra	SD Patil	NCP	K Somaiya	BJP
19	2990	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	BP Ray	BJP	KR Sharma	Congress
20	3354	Sivaganga	Tamil Nadu	P Chidambaram	Congress	RK RS	AIADMK
21	3684	Ladakh	Jammu & Kashmir	H Khan	Ind	P Namgyal	Congress
22	4002	Chamarajanagar (SC)	Karnataka	R Dhruvanarayana	Congress	AR Krishnamurthy	BJP
23	4021	Rewa	MP	DS Patel	BSP	SL Tiwari	Congress
24	4335	Tiruchirapalli	Tamil Nadu	Kumar P	AIADMK	SR Thondaiman	Congress
25	4418	Satna	MP	G Singh	BJP	S Kushwaha	BSP
26	4831	Surendranagar	Gujarat	KPS Gandalal	Congress	ML Chaturbhai	BJP
27	5105	Balurghat	West Bengal	PK Majumdar	RSP	B Mitra	Trinamool Congress
28	5224	Anantnag	Jammu & Kashmir	MM Beg	National Conference	PM Hussain	PDP
29	5779	Mumbai North	Maharashtra	SB Nirupam	Congress	R Naik	BJP
30	5893	Bhavnagar	Gujarat	RG Rana	BJP	G Athsinh	Congress
31	6077	Medak	Andhra Pradesh	Vijay Shanthi M	TRS	Narendranath C	Congress
32	6302	Theni	Tamil Nadu	Aaron rashid	JM	T Tamilselvan	Congress
33	6353	North Goa	Goa	SY Naik	BJP	JR Deshprabhu	NCP
34	6407	Godda	Jharkhand	Nishikant Dubey	BJP	F Ansari	Congress
35	6787	Osmanabad	Maharashtra	PP Bajirao	NCP	GR Viswanath	Shiv Sena
36	6858	Amritsar	Punjab	OP Soni	Congress	Navjot Singh Sidhu	BJP
37	6950	Almora (SC)	UP	Pradeep Tamta	Congress	Ajay Tamta	BJP
38	6983	Hisar	Haryana	Bhajan Lal	Haryana Janhit Congress	S Singh	INLD
39	7169	Valsad (ST)	Gujarat	KV Patel	Congress	PD Chhaganbhai	BJP
40	7681	Aaonla	UP	Menka Gandhi	BJP	D Kumar	SP
41	7691	Mysore	Karnataka	AH Vishwanath	Congress	CH Vijayashankar	BJP
42	7920	Karimganj (SC)	Assam	LM Suklabaidya	Congress	R Mallah	AUDF
43	7975	Latur (SC)	Maharashtra	AJ Gangaram	congress	GS Baliram	BJP
44	8283	Lohardaga (ST)	Jharkhand	S Bhagat	BJP	C Linda	Ind
45	8342	Gurdaspur	Punjab	PS Bawja	Congress	V Khanna	BJP
46	8482	Jalna	Maharashtra	DRD Patil	BJP	Dr KK Vaijinathrao	Congress
47	8983	Rajmahal (ST)	Jharkhand	D Besra	BJP	H Murmu	JMM
48	9338	Bareilly	UP	PS Aron	Congress	S Gangwar	BJP
49	9715	Agra (SC)	UP	Dr Ramshankar	BJP	K Chand	BSP
50	9927	Madhubani	Bihar	HN Yadav	BJP	A Siddiki	RJD
51	9936	Fatehpur Sikri	UP	S Updhayay	BSP	R Babbar	Congress
52	9954	Durg	Chhattisgarh	S Pandey	BJP	P Choubey	Congress
53	10301	Banaskantha	Gujarat	GM Bheiravdanji	congress	CH Parathibhai	BJP
54	10659	Chittoor (SC)	Andhra Pradesh	Naramalli Sivaprasad	TDP	Thippeswamy M	Congress
55	11409	Jalaun (SC)	UP	G Anuragi	SP	TC Ahirwar	BSP
56	11480	Indore	MP	Sumitra Mahajan	BJP	Satynarayan Patel	Congress
57	11624	Sundargarh (ST)	Odisha	H Biswal	Congress	J oram	BJP
58	11790	Ernakulam	Kerala	Prof KV Thomas	Congress	S Joy	CPI(M)
59	11855	Gauhati	Assam	B Chakravarty	BJP	Capt. R Bordoloi	Congress
60	12360	Palghar (ST)	Maharashtra	JB Sukur	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi Adv.	C Vanga	BJP
61	12440	Churu	Rajasthan	RS Kaswan	BJP	R Mandelia	Congress
62	12456	Machilipatnam	Andhra Pradesh	KN rao	TDP	B Ramakrishna	Congress
63	12516	South Goa	Goa	CFC Sardinha	Congress	N K Sawaikar	BJP
64	12712	Vijayawada	Andhra Pradesh	LR Gopal	Congress	VM Vallabhaneni	TDP
65	13103	Kancheepuram (SC)	Tamil Nadu	Vishwanath P	Congress	Ramakrishnan.Dr.E	AIADMK
66	13350	Ranchi	Jharkhand	Subodh Kant Sahay	Congress	Rt Choudhary	BJP
67	13394	Udhampur	Jammu & Kashmir	Ch. Lal Singh	Congress	Dr N Singh	BJP
68	13404	Gulbarga (SC)	Karnataka	Mallikarjun Kharge	Congress	R Belamgi	BJP
69	13759	Junagadh	Gujarat	SD Bogabhai	BJP	BJ Dhanabhai	Congress
70	13997	Mandi	Himachal Pradesh	Virbhadra Singh	Congress	M Singh	BJP
71	14015	Katihar	Bihar	NK Choudhary	BJP	ST Anwar	NCP
72	14570	Ambala	Haryana	Selja	Congress	RL Kataria	BJP
73	14578	Phulpur	UP	KM Karwariya	BSP	SC Gupta	SP
74	14874	Sambalpur	Odisha	A Pradhan	Congress	R Pujari	BJD