Election Results 2024: Most candidates who jumped parties to BJP and Congress, lost elections

The BJP had fielded eight turncoats in Telangana — the most in a State by a party — and of them 2 won

Of the 76 turncoats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections tracked by The Hindu Data Team, only 20 won the polls. A turncoat is an MP candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, who faced their previous election as a candidate of another recognised State/national party. The previous election they faced can be for an MLA seat or for an MP seat. For our analysis, we only considered candidates who fought on a Congress or a BJP ticket in 2024.

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The BJP had fielded eight turncoats in Telangana — the most in a State by a party — and of them 2 won. The Congress had fielded four turncoats in Punjab, of them 2 won. The story takes a look at the party-wise and State-wise win percentages of such turncoat candidates.

Table 1 | The table shows the total number of turncoats tracked and the number of turncoats who won in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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Of the 33 turncoats we tracked in the Congress, 7 won the elections. Of the 43 turncoats from the BJP we tracked, 13 won.

Table 2 | The table lists the party-wise number of turncoats who won/lost the 2024 Lok Sabha election.