New Delhi, May 16, 2014: As votes are being counted on Friday in the biggest elections that the world has ever seen, there have been surprise winners and losers. Here is a list of prominent candidates who lost or won.
Winners
Narendra Modi – Vadodara and Varanasi
Sakshi Maharaj - Unnao
Varun Gandhi - Sultanpur
BS Yeddyurappa – Shimoga
Mulayam Singh Yadav – Mainpuri
Harshvardhan – Chandni Chowk
Kirron Kher – Chandigarh
Bhagwant Mann – Sangrur
Sushma Swaraj – Vidisha
VK Singh - Ghaziabad
Nitin Gadkari - Nagpur
Paresh Rawal – Ahmedabad-East
Dinesh Trivedi - Barrackpur
Sumitra Mahajan – Indore
Prahlad Patel – Damoh
Manohar Singh Utwal – Dewas
Meenakshi Lekhi – New Delhi
Losers
Arvind Kejriwal/ Ajay Rai - Varanasi
Ajit Singh – Baghpat
Anu Tandon – Unnao
Kapil Sibal/Ashutosh – Chandni Chowk
Gul Panag/Pawan Bansal – Chandigarh
Shazia Ilmi/ Raj Babbar – Ghaziabad
Bharatsinh Solanki – Anand
Rahul Kashwan – Churu
Sachin Pilot – Ajmer
Girija Vyas – Chittorgarh
Sushilkumar Shinde – Solapur
Shashi Tharoor - Trivandrum