Congress Wins in India:

Congress is set to form the government yet again with a clear voting margin. Here are latest numbers:

All India:

543 out of 543

Cong+ – 251

BJP+ – 161

3rd Front – 85

4th Front 31

* Congress’ best performance in decades

* Sitting BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde beats Congress leader Margaret Alva by a margin of 22,769 votes in Uttara Kannada.

* P Chidambaram (Congress) loses to Raja Kannappan of AIADMK by a margin of 3,555 votes in Sivaganga

* Sonia Gandhi congratulates Manmohan Singh

* Congress’ Kapil Sibal wins from Chandni Chowk in Delhi

* Congress’ Kamal Nath wins from Chindwda

* Portfolios of Defence, MEA and office of speaker to remain with Congress

* It helps to have young leaders like Rahul Gandhi: Omar Abdullah

* Manmohan Singh calls for cabinet meeting on Monday, 18th May

* Manmohan Singh set to return as PM for the 2nd term

* HD Deve Gowda retains Hassan seat by a margin of 1 lakh votes

* Shashi Tharoor wins by 50,000 votes

* Reaction – We expected better results in Rajasthan, Maharashtra: Rajnath

* Mamta, Pranab leading by substantial margins in WB

* We will sit in opposition and fight for poor people’s cause: A B Bardhan

* People have voted for stable government: Pawar

* Support Manmohan as PM: Pawar

* If UPA falls will help resolve problem: Pawar

* L K Advani leads in Gandhi Nagar by over 17,000 votes

* Sonia Gandhi leads in Rae Bareli by over 15,000 votes

* TMC-Cong alliance lead in West Bengal

* Manmohan Singh set to return as PM for the 2nd term

* Venkaih Naidu, BJP: We concede that Congress has upper hand now

* Trends show clean sweep for Congress in all 7 seats of Delhi

* Cong, NCP alliance leads in Maharashtra

* BJP chief Naveen Patnaik sweeps Orissa by landslide margin

* Manmohan Singh set to return as PM: CNN IBN

* Congress’ Shashi Tharoor leading in Thiruvananthpuram

* DMK-Congress front leads in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

* Congress surging to clear majority

* UPA surges ahead in India’s battle for power

* Congress surges ahead in Kerala, Rajasthan

* Milind Deora trailing in South Mumbai

* Lalu Yadav Leads in Patliputra

* Sandeep Dixit leading in East Delhi constituency

* Jyotiraditya Scindia leading in Guna, MP

* UPA, NDA gain, UPA in Kerala, NDA gain in West Bengal

* Shashi Tharoor leads in Thiruvananthapuram

* HD Deve Gowda, Kumaraswamy leading in Karnataka

* Mamata Banerjee ahead in South Kolkata

* Sachin Pilot of the Congress ahead

* Jaswant Singh leading in Darjeerling

Track Election results here

ALL Contested Leads Wins Total Wins 2004 543 Awaited 0 516 535 Total for alliance 543 Others <!– –> Ind Awaited 0 0 0 2 Others 42 20 0 20 31 PMK 8 1 0 1 6 BJP 28 28 28 28 28 Total 21 Fourth Front <!– –> LJP 112 0 0 0 4 RJD 42 2 0 2 24 SP 165 9 0 9 36 BJP 28 28 28 28 28 Total 33 NDA <!– –> BJP 399 83 0 83 138 JD(U) 51 3 0 3 7 SAD 5 1 0 1 8 SS 34 8 0 8 12 BJP 28 28 28 28 28 Total 155 Third Front <!– –> AIADMK 22 11 0 11 0 BJD 18 0 0 0 11 BSP 438 3 0 3 19 CPI 53 2 0 2 9 CPI(M) 78 10 0 10 42 JD(S) 33 4 0 4 2 TDP 31 3 0 3 5 BJP 28 28 28 28 28 Total 92 UPA <!– –> DMK 18 16 0 15 16 INC 404 112 0 112 141 JMM 37 0 0 0 4 NC 0 1 0 1 0 NCP 42 11 0 11 18 TMC 3 0 0 0 0 BJP 28 28 28 28 28 Total 247