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The numbers Highest margins of victory
Year
Candidate
Party
Constituency
Votes
(in lakhs)
2004
Anil Basu
CPM
Arambagh
5.93
2014
Narendra Modi
BJP
Vadodara
5.70
1989
Ram Vilas Paswan
JD
Hajipur
5.04
2009
CM Chang
NPF
Nagaland
4.83
1991*
S Mohan Dev
INC
West Tripura
4.29
* 5.81 lakh was margin of victory for PV Narasimha Rao in the Nandyal bypoll
Source: The Times of India
400+
56 million
Number of rallies addressed by Narendra Modi between September 15, 2013, when his campaign started, and May 10, 2014, when it ended
Number of election-related tweets in 2014
300,000 KM The distance Modi covered, across 25 states, during the campaign
65% Ratio of women in the overall voter turnout. In eight states and union territories – Puducherry, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Daman and Diu, Meghalaya, Goa and Arunachal Pradesh – women voters outnumbered men
13.4 crore Number of voters in Uttar Pradesh, the highest in the country
35 days Duration of the voting process. This was the longest after 1952, when voting was spread across 119 days. In 1980, the polls were shortest – a mere three days
$600 million The money pumped in by foreign institutional investors into Indian stock markets after the results on May 16. This was among the highest investments this year, taking the year’s total to $6 billion