NEW DELHI: On an average, two out of three candidates fielded by BJP in this Lok Sabha election have won, while for Congress the success rate was only about 10 per cent.
BJP has won 282 out of the 428 seats it contested, while Congress has managed 44 from 457 Lok Sabha constituencies where it fielded candidates.
Parties that contested beyond their traditional strongholds recorded a dismal winning percentage at national level, while parties like Lok Janshakti Party, Biju Janta Dal and AIADMK have done well on this metric by limiting presence to their respective states.
The winning percentage for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which made its debut in parliamentary polls, is dismal at just about 0.9 per cent as only four out of its 443 candidates won.
The winning percentage is also very low for Left parties, with CPI winning one out of 67 seats (1.5 per cent) and CPM getting 9 out of 98 seats (9.2 per cent).
At the same time, parties like Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK and Naveen Patnaik-led BJD have recorded over 90 per cent strike rate by landslide victories in their respective states of Tamil Nadu and Odisha. Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP has also won six out of seven seats it fought in Bihar with a strike rate of close to 85 per cent.
Mamata Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress has also won 34 seats in West Bengal, but its decision to field candidates from various other states has brought down its strike rate to about 30 per cent. The party had fielded over 100 candidates across the country including in West Bengal.
Samajwadi Party, which fielded over 200 candidates across the country, could win only five seats getting a winning percentage of less than 3 per cent.
Two of BJP’s allies — Shiv Sena and Shiromani Akali Dal — have also managed good strike rates of over 66 per cent and 90 per cent respectively. Shiv Sena and SAD have won 18 and four Lok Sabha seats respectively.
Janta Dal United, which has fared badly in Bihar, could manage only two seats giving it a strike rate of about 5 per cent. (Agencies)
