According to the Election Commission's website, the NOTA vote share in the state stood at 2% of the total votes
At least 716 women candidates contested the general election
Incidentally, the Left Front lost 22.21% of vote share in this year's general election
Experts say more transparency is required from social media and other digital giants
BJP sources said the PM could take oath of office next week
The BJP won 303 seats in the just-concluded general election
Naveen, Achyuta Samanta, Aparajita win while Jay Panda, Sambit Patra end up losers
Maneka's attempt to wrest 'Sanjay's seat' from Rajiv Gandhi ended in failure but three-and-a-half decades later Smriti Irani delivered her redemption song
Patnaik is only the third chief minister in the country after Jyoti Basu and Sikkim's incumbent Pawan Kumar Chamling to retain power for the fifth successive term
AIADMK wins the crucial nine seats that will help it prove majority on the floor, despite the fact that DMK took the other 13 seats
Before his swearing-in, Modi is likely to visit Varanasi to thank the people of the parliamentary constituency from where he has been elected for the second time
Aditi Phadnis and Archis Mohan discuss the mandate with host Ankur Bhardwaj
The Congress suffered a major embarrassment with Rahul Gandhi losing from the party's stronghold here to BJP's Smriti Irani by 55,120 votes
The meeting will take place in Parliament's Central Hall on Saturday during which the MPs will formally elect Modi as the leader
SP Muslim candidates, who tasted electoral success, included Mohd Azam Khan (Rampur), S T Hasan (Moradabad) and Shafiqur Rehman Barq (Sambhal)
Only in Dahod and Porbandar parliamentary seats, the margin of victory of the BJP candidates went down when compared to 2014
All of the replacement candidates won by comfortable margins as the calculated risk seemed to have paid off
President of The American India Public Affairs Committee Jagdish Sewhani said that the re-election of the Indian leader with a strong mandate is a reflection of the emergence of 'New India'.
JD(S) had contested seven seats and everyone but Prajwal was swept away by the Modi wave Thursday.
BJP bagged a massive 40.25 per cent in the state of West Bengal winning 18 seats.