Election setback for Modi in three key states

India’s ruling party has suffered a setback in elections to five state assemblies, handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi his biggest loss since taking office in 2014, and just months before national elections


Narendra Modi’s BJP lost three state elections in its Hindu stronghold – Chhattisgarh, Madhya
Pradesh and Rajasthan – to main opposition Congress party


Key to parties

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Indian National Congress

Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Mizo National Front

Others


RULING PARTIES BEFORE ELECTION
New Delhi
RAJASTHAN
MIZORAM
CHHATTISGARH
TELANGANA
MADHYA PRADESH

300km 200 miles


ELECTION RESULTS
Assembly seats won

Madhya Pradesh
230
114 109 7

Rajasthan 
200*
99 73 27

Chhattisgarh
90
68 15 7

Telangana
119
88 19 11 1

Mizoram
40
26 8 5 1

*Voting held for 199 seats (one seat postponed)


Sources: AP, Electoral Commission of India 
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