“The BJP won 30 seats with a margin of less than 500 votes and over 100 seats with a margin of less than 1000 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”
What FACTLY found
The lowest victory margin for a BJP candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is 1,587 votes. BJP’s Rabindra Narayan Behera from Odisha’s Jajpur constituency, who received 5,34,239 votes, defeated BJD’s Sarmistha Sethi, who secured 5,32,652 votes, by a margin of 1,587 votes. Among the 240 BJP candidates who won in the 2024 general elections, only 8 secured victories with a margin of less than 10,000 votes, and only 14 BJP candidates secured victory with a margin of less than 20,000 votes.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 June 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 7 June 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/yalijala/posts/pfbid02sJGADera4yswbb66CYQQ4XGwxHZ8g8P16Vso6Mo5xT…
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.