Three seats in the archive were won by a single vote. Eighty-eight were decided by fewer than a hundred. This is every close contest in India's state assemblies since 2008 — ranked by the number of votes that separated the winner from the runner-up, drawn from 13,469 results across 97 elections in 31 states, and reconciled seat by seat against the Election Commission's own files.
By Tushar Gupta · Click any seat to open it on the state map
Won by one vote
3
Under 100 votes
88
Under 500 votes
422
Under 1,000 votes
863of 13,469
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Margin
Seat
Winner over runner-up
Pts
And in the Lok Sabha
The same ranking for the four general elections since 2009 — the sixty closest of 2,172 contests. Seats marked ✓ carry official totals including postal ballots, verified against the Election Commission's constituency results; the rest are EVM counts from the assembly-segment files.