16 May,2014 08:43 PM IST | | Agencies
Here's a look at how some of the big names fared in the 2014 general elections
New Delhi: India's general elections have come to a close with results showing a comfortable win for the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Every election throws winners and losers. Here a look at how some of the big names in the 2014 elections fared.
Winners:
' Narendra Modi (BJP/Vadodra and Varanasi)
' Sonia Gandhi (Congress/Rae Bareli)
' LK Advani (BJP/Gandhinagar)
' Rajnath Singh (BJP/Lucknow)
' Murli Manohar Joshi (BJP/Kanpur)
' Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress/Gulbarga- SC)
' Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M. Veerappa Moily (Congress/Chikkballabpur)
' Union Minisgter Kamal Nath (Congress/Chindwara)
' Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises K.H.A. Muniyappa (Congress/Kolar-SC)
' Minister of State for Labour Kodikunnil Suresh (Congress/Mavelikara)
' Minister of State for Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal (Congres/Alappuzha)
' Minister of State for Food, Public Distribution, Consumer Affairs Minister (independent charge) K.V. Thomas (Congress/Ernakulam)
' Minister of State for Home Mulapally Ramachandran (Congress/Vadakara)
' Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor (Congress/Thiravananthapuram)
' Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio (Naga Peoples Front/Kohima)
' Ram Vilas Paswan (Lok Janshakti Party/Hajipur)
' Chirag Paswan (Lok Janshakti Party/Jamui)
' Moon Moon Sen (Trinamool Congress/Bankura)
' Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grandnephew Sugata Bose (Trinamool Congress/Jadavpur)
' Hema Malini (BJP/Mathura)
' Surinder Singh Ahluwalia (BJP/Darjeeling)
' Former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi (Trinamool Congress/Barrackpore)
' Former Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda (BJP/Bangalore North)
' President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit (Congress/Jangipur)
' Shatrughan Sinha (BJP/Patna Sahib)
' Kirron Kher (BJP/Chandigarh)
' Bengal matinee idol Dev (Trinamool Congress/Ghatal)
' K. Chandrasekhara Rao (TRS/Medak)
' Former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig (PDP/Baramulla)
' Mehbooba Mufti (PDP/Anantnag)
' Bollywood singer Babul Supriyo (BJP/Asansol)
'Comedian Innocent (Left-backed Independent/ Chalakudy)
' Dushyant Singh, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje (BJP/Jhalwar-Baran)
' Thupstan Chhewang (BJP/Ladakh - 37 votes.
' Actor-comedian Bhagwant Mann (AAP/Sangrur)
Losers:
' Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar (Congress/Sasaram)
' Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh (RLD/Baghpat)
' Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal (Congress/Kanpur)
' Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad (Congress/Udhampur)
' Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah (National Conference/Srinagar)
' Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy (Congress/Puducherry)
' Union minister Sachin Pilot (Congress/Ajmer)
' Union minister Girja Vyas (Congress/Chittorgarh)
' Union minister Bhanwar Jitendra Singh (Congress/Alwar)
' Union minister Chandresh Kumari (Congress/Jodhpur)
'Former India cricket captain Mohd. Azharuddin (Congress/Tonk-Sawai Madhopur)
' Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal (Congress/Chandigarh)
'Former telecom ministerm A. Raja (DMK/Nilgiris)
' Nine-time MP Basudeb Acharia (CPI-M/Bankura)
' Arun Jaitley (BJP/ Amritsar)
' Bhaichung Bhutia (Trinamool Congress/Darjeeling)
' Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's wife and incumbent MP (Congress/Mandi)
' Sharad Yadav (Janata Dal-United/Madhepura)
' Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh (Independent/Barmer)
' Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi (RJD/Saran)
' Filmmaker Prakash Jha (Janata Dal-United/West Champaran)
' Actor Rakhi Sawant (Independent/Mumbai Northwest-Sixth)