Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bhartiya Janata Party displayed a historic victory in the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, crossing the majority mark on its own for the second straight time. The saffron party’s win over 300 seats has left opposition parties like Congress on the verge of an existential crisis. As per the Election Commission, BJP gets 302 seats, Congress gets 52 seats, and others get 187 seats.
While the debutants like Bollywood actor Sunny Deol, cricketer Gautam Gambhir, and sufi singer Hans Raj Hans saw success in the Lok Sabha polls, there are some political bigwigs who lost. Have a look at some key political bigwigs who lost in the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.
| Political bigwigs who lost in Lok Sabha Elections 2019 | |||
| Candidates | Party | Constituency | 2019 Winner |
| Rahul Gandhi | Congress | Amethi | Smriti Irani (BJP) |
| Jyotiraditya Scindia | Congress | Guna | K P Yadav (BJP) |
| Sheila Dikshit | Congress | North East Delhi | Manoj Tiwari (BJP) |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | BJP | Amritsar | Gurjeet Singh Aujla (Congress) |
| Jaya Prada | BJP | Rampur | Azam Khan (Samajwadi Party) |
| Kanhaiya Kumar | CPI | Begusarai | Giriraj Singh (BJP) |
| Bhupinder Singh Hooda | Congress | Sonipat | Ramesh Chander Kaushik (BJP) |
| Upendra Kushwaha | RLSP | Karakat | Mahabali Singh (JD(U)) |
| HD Deve Gowda | Janata Dal (S) | Tumkur | G. S. Basavaraj (BJP) |
| Digvijaya Singh | Congress | Bhopal | Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur (BJP) |
| Veerappa Moily | Congress | Chikkballapur | B.N.Bache Gowda (BJP) |
| Mallikarjun Kharge | Congress | Gulbarga | Umesh G Jadhav (BJP) |
| Ashok Chavan | Congress | Nanded | Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar (BJP) |
| Sushil Kumar Shinde | Congress | Solapur | Dr. Jai Sidheshwar Shivacharya Mahaswamiji (BJP) |
| Meira Kumar | Congress | Sasaram | Chhedi Paswan (BJP) |
| Pawan Kumar Bansal | Congress | Chandigarh | Kirron Kher (BJP) |
| Ajay Maken | Congress | New Delhi | Meenakashi Lekhi (BJP) |
| Salman Khurshid | Congress | Farrukhabad | Mukesh Rajput (BJP) |
| Raj Babbar | Congress | Fatehpur Sikri | Rajkumar Chahar (BJP) |
| Sri Prakash Jaiswal | Congress | Kanpur | Satyadev Pachauri (BJP) |
| Milind Murli Deora | Congress | Mumbai South | Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena) |
| Sushmita Dev | Congress | Silchar | Rajdeep Roy (BJP) |
| Deepender Hooda | Congress | Rohtak | Arvind Kumar Sharma (BJP) |
| Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh | Congress | Kushi Nagar | Vijay Kumar Dubey (BJP) |
| Jitin Prasada | Congress | Dhaurahra | Rekha Verma (BJP) |
| Harish Rawat | Congress | Nainital-Udhamsingh Nag | Ajay Bhatt (BJP) |
| Mukul Sangma | Congress | Tura | Agatha Sangma (National People's Party) |
| Arvinder Singh Lovely | Congress | East Delhi | Gautam Gambhir (BJP) |
| Mehbooba Mufti | JKPDP | Anantnag (J&K) | Hasnain Masoodi (JKNC) |
| Shatrughan Sinha | Congress | Patna Sahib | Ravi Shankar Prasad (BJP) |
| Dimpal Yadav | SP | Kannauj | Subrat Pathak (BJP) |
| Moon Moon Sen | Trinamool Congress | Asansol | Babul Supriyo (BJP) |
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