Pritam Munde bagged a total of 9,16,923 votes. Pritam Munde bagged a total of 9,16,923 votes.

BJP's Pritam Munde, contesting from the Beed Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra on Sunday, won by nearly 7 lakh votes - the highest ever in India's electoral history.

The seat fell vacant after Pritam's father and Union minister Gopinath Munde died in a car accident.

According to the Election Commission, Pritam Munde bagged a total of 9,16,923 votes while her nearest rival, Ashokrao Shankarrao Patil of the Congress, secured 2,24,678 votes.

Munde's margin of 6,92,245 is way above the 5.7 lakh vote margin secured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat in May. Modi later gave up the seat.

However, the highest victory margin ever till October 18, 2014, was Left leader Anil Basu's margin of 5,92,502 votes from Arambagh.

Modi's is now the third highest victory margin, followed by Ram Vilas Paswan's 1989 margin of 5,04,448 votes.

