The BJP is leading in both the seats in the northeastern state. Since 1996, Communist Party of India (Marxist) has won the two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura. The Left held on to Tripura while other ...

The DMK was leading in 23 seats till results came in. The Congress was ahead in eight.Even during the Modi wave of 2014, Tamil Nadu resisted being swayed toward BJP. BJP won just one seat, with Pon Ra...

The BJD has raced ahead in Odisha, leading in 12 seats and leaving the BJP with only nine.The elections in 2014 showed that Biju Janata Dal still has a stronghold in the state, and not just in state a...

This election, Badruddin Ajmal was a lone fighter in Dhubri, where he has won twice. The Congress was in talks with Ajmal’s party All India United Democratic Front, but decided in the end not to all...

In 2009 and 2014, the Calcutta North seat sent Sudip Bandyopadhyay to Parliament. Sudip’s adversary that year was the CPM’s Mohammad Salim, not the BJP’s Tathagata Roy, who got a 4 per cent vote...

Just after 12 noon, Anubhav Mohanty, the Biju Janta Dal's candidate from Kendrapara, was leading with 52 per cent of the votes counted. His nearest rival was the BJP's Baijayant Panda, who had receive...

Certain power corridors in capital Ranchi are abuzz on whether the state will get a new director-general of police. A political insider told The Telegraph that the new government led by Hemant Soren, ...