Riding the Narendra Modi 'wave', BJP virtually wiped out Congress in Madhya Pradesh as it won 27 of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan credited Modi's charismatic leadership for BJP's spectacular win while also pointing at the large number of follies committed by the UPA government.
In vote share Congress stood at second position, still it could manage to win just two Lok Sabha seats. The consolation wins for Congress came in the Chhindwara and Guna Lok Sabha seats where Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia, respectively, managed to seal the issue. Congress with a vote share of 34.9 per cent managed to garner 10340274 votes, where as BJP was way ahead with 54 per cent vote share and managed to get 16015685 votes.
Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Sumitra Mahajan won from Indore for her eighth consecutive term by the highest margin of 4,66,901 votes. She was followed by Sushma Swaraj who retained Vidisha for a second term by a record margin of 4,10,698 votes.
Prominent BJP leaders who won in the state are former prime minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee's nephew and senior party leader Anoop Mishra from Morena, Madhya Pradesh BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar from Gwalior, former IAS officer Bhagirath Prasad, who joined BJP a day after getting a Congress ticket, from Bhind and former Union ministers Faggan Singh Kulaste and Prahlad Patel.
Senior Congress leaders who lost include former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria from Ratlam, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's close confidante Meenakshi Natarajan from Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh Congress president and former Union minister Arun Yadav from Khandwa, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh's brother Laxman Singh from Vidisha and former Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh from Satna.
The lowest victory margin was that of Ganesh Singh, who defeated Ajay Singh by a margin 8,688 votes in Satna. With 27 seats in its kitty, BJP has cornered a vote share of 54 per cent while Congress secured 34.9 per cent of the votes. Aam Aadmi Party, which fielded candidates in all 29 seats, managed to get just 1.2 per cent of the vote share and failed to win even a single seat.
When the campaigning was on, the BJP leader who won by second hiest margin Sushma Swaraj had cancelled an election meeting in a Madhya Pradesh town after no local party leader came to receive her at the helipad.
According to a report published in Hindustan Times, Swaraj was slated to address a rally at Shivpuri in Guna parliamentary seat, where BJP nominee Jaibhan Singh Pavaiya is pitted against Congress candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia.
It was learnt that the veteran leader found nobody – neither Pavaiya nor the party workers at the helipad – to receive her. There was no party vehicle either to take her to the meeting venue.
She waited for them in a guest house nearby for about 10-15 minutes and then boarded a police jeep brought by the police personnel on duty.
While campainging Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke about the various social security schemes launched by the UPA government, in her bid to woo the tribals of Madhya Pradesh and also tried to woo tribals.
In Bhind voters of more than ten villages had decided to boycott the Lok Sabha elections to protest the lack of basic amenities in the area.
The villagers, led by sarpanch Ramkali Baghel in a meeting at Khamrauli village had expressed their anger and alleged that the candidates of all parties made false promises and did not turn up after winning.
During the thirs phase of elections in Madhya Pradesh there were reports that two EVMs malfunctioned in Sidhi and Dindori while one malfunctioned in Shahdol.
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