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.
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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)