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      Did Multiple BJP Candidates Get Identical Votes of 2,11,820?

      Election Commission's website confirms that the number of votes shown on the viral post is completely different from what the ECI uploaded on its website

      By - Sumit Usha |
      Published -  25 May 2019 10:22 PM IST
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      Social media is abuzz with a viral post which falsely claims that several candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress party got the exact same numbers of votes: 2,11,820 and 1,40,295 respectively. The post accompanies a message which reads: How is this possible without EVM setting?

      (Hindi: बिना EVM सेटिंग ये कैसे सम्भव हो सकता है |)

      While the post goes on to name seven candidates from BJP and mentions the number of votes each of them have received, it mentions only the votes received by the Congress candidates skipping their names. Interestingly, the number of votes polled by all the BJP candidates are 2,11,820 while that by the Congress candidates are 1,40,295.

      EVM setting

      The archived version of the post, which is being shared widely on Twitter and Facebook currently, can be accessed here.



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      Fact Check

      All the seven BJP candidates named in the post had contested the election from different constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The names of seven candidates and their constituencies are listed below:

      Bharatiya Janta Party

      • Bhola Singh (Bulandshahar)
      • Maneka Gandhi (Sultanpur)
      • Upendra Narsing (Barabanki)
      • Harish Dwivedi (Basti)
      • Satyapal Singh (Bagpat)
      • Sang Mitra Maurya (Badaun)
      • Kunwar Bhartendra Singh (Bijnour)

      BOOM checked the Election Commission of India's website to find out the poll count. We found that the number of votes shown on the viral post is completely different from what the ECI uploaded on its website.

      Here are the number of votes received by the BJP candidates as mentioned on the ECI website.

      • Bhola Singh: 6,77,196
      • Maneka Gandhi: 4,58,281
      • Upendra Narsing: 5,35,594
      • Harish Dwivedi: 4,69,214
      • Satyapal Singh: 5,19,631
      • Sang Mitra Maurya: 5,10,343
      • Kunwar Bhartendra Singh: 4,88,061

      Given below are the screen shots of the vote shares in all the seven constituencies.

      hola singh bulandshahar
      BJP's Bulandshahar candidate Bhola Singh's vote share is 6,77,196 and not 2,11,820 as mentioned in the viral post
      maneka sanjai gandhi
      Maneka Gandhi, BJP's candidate from Sultanpur has received 4,58,281 votes
      barabanki
      Upendra Singh Rawat who fought on BJP ticket from Barabaki won 5,35,594 votes
      basti
      Basti BJP candidate Harish Dwivedi got 4,69,214 votes
      baghpat
      BJP Baghpat candidate Satyapal Singh's vote share was 5,19,631 votes
      badaun
      Sanghamitra Maurya, BJP Badaun candidate, received 5,10,343 votes
      Bhartendra Singh, BJP Bijnor candidate, won 4,88,061 votes

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      bhola singhelectionsEVMsfeaturedManeka Gandhisultan puruttr pradeshBJPIndian National Congress (INC)
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      Claim :   EVMs were rigged as seven BJP candidates got exact same number of votes - 2,11,820
      Claimed By :  Facebook pages and Twitter handles
      Fact Check :  FALSE
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