{"id":37134,"date":"2019-05-25T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T12:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=37134"},"modified":"2019-05-25T18:13:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T12:43:46","slug":"no-multiple-bjp-candidates-did-not-get-identical-number-of-votes-211280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-multiple-bjp-candidates-did-not-get-identical-number-of-votes-211280\/","title":{"rendered":"No, multiple BJP candidates did not get identical number of votes &#8211; 2,11,280"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message is viral on social media claiming that multiple BJP candidates had received an identical number of votes, and it is being suggested that such a result cannot be achieved without EVMs being rigged. The text of the claim is, &#8220;<em>\u092c\u093f\u0928\u093e \u0908\u0935\u0940\u090f\u092e \u0938\u0947\u091f \u0915\u093f\u090f \u0939\u0940 \u0905\u0932\u0917 \u0905\u0932\u0917 \u0938\u0940\u091f \u092a\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u090f\u0915 \u091c\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0947 \u0935\u094b\u091f \u0915\u0948\u0938\u0947 \u092e\u093f\u0932\u0947 ? \u0939\u0930 \u0932\u093f\u0938\u094d\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u090f\u0915 \u0939\u0940 2,11,820 \u0915\u093e \u0905\u0902\u0915 \u092e\u093f\u0932 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964 (Without rigging EVMs, how is it possible that BJP candidates got identical votes on multiple seats? In every list, the count corresponding to BJP is identical &#8211; 2,11,820)<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kavyah.yadav.52\/posts\/216259399344989\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/kavyah.yadav.52\/posts\/216259399344989\"><p>\u092c\u093f\u0928\u093e \u0908\u0935\u0940\u090f\u092e \u0938\u0947\u091f \u0915\u093f\u090f \u0939\u0940 \u0905\u0932\u0917 \u0905\u0932\u0917 \u0938\u0940\u091f \u092a\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u090f\u0915 \u091c\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0947 \u0935\u094b\u091f \u0915\u0948\u0938\u0947 \u092e\u093f\u0932\u0947 ?<\/p>\n<p>\u0939\u0930 \u0932\u093f\u0938\u094d\u091f \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u090f\u0915 \u0939\u0940 2,11,820 \u0915\u093e \u0905\u0902\u0915 \u092e\u093f\u0932 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964<\/p>\n<p>#\u0932\u094b\u0915\u0924\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930_\u0915\u093e_\u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u093e<br \/>\n#\u091a\u0941\u0928\u093e\u0935_\u0906\u092f\u094b\u0917 #\u0938\u0941\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0940\u092e_\u0915\u094b\u0930\u094d\u091f<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kavyah.yadav.52\">Kavyah Yadav Aheer<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/kavyah.yadav.52\/posts\/216259399344989\">Saturday, 25 May 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The claim is also being <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;q=%22%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%AE%20%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%8F%22&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> on Twitter. Multiple people have sent the above set of screenshots with the accompanying text to Alt News on WhatsApp as well. The constituencies in question, that have been shown in the above screenshots, are all from Uttar Pradesh. These 7 constituencies are Basti, Baghpat, Barabanki, Ballia, Bijnor, Sultanpur and Bulandshahr.<\/p>\n<h2>Fact-check<\/h2>\n<p>This viral claim about BJP candidates getting identical number of votes on multiple seats is absolutely false. In order to verify this claim, Alt News looked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/results.eci.gov.in\/pc\/en\/constituencywise\/ConstituencywiseU011.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Lok Sabha results<\/a> on the election commission website and checked the numbers for the corresponding constituencies. Alt News found that each of the BJP candidates in the constituencies listed above have unique number of votes, and not a single match was found. The name of the constituency and the votes received by the BJP candidate are listed in the table below.<\/p>\n<p>[table id=3 \/]<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen above, there is no truth to the claim that is being circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>After BJP&#8217;s win and Congress&#8217; loss in the Lok Sabha elections, there is a spate of misinformation around EVMs, seeking to create doubts in those who are opposed to BJP about the veracity of EVMs. Earlier, it was falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-6-lakh-votes-polled-in-favour-of-rahul-gandhi-in-wayanad-did-not-vanish-from-eci-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> that 6 lakhs vote polled in favour of Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad had vanished from ECI records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message is viral on social media claiming that multiple BJP candidates had received an identical number of votes, and it is being suggested that such a result cannot be achieved without EVMs being rigged. The text of the claim is, &#8220;\u092c\u093f\u0928\u093e \u0908\u0935\u0940\u090f\u092e \u0938\u0947\u091f \u0915\u093f\u090f \u0939\u0940 \u0905\u0932\u0917 \u0905\u0932\u0917 \u0938\u0940\u091f \u092a\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u090f\u0915 \u091c\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0947 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-37134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No, multiple BJP candidates did not get identical number of votes - 2,11,280 - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No, multiple BJP candidates did not get identical number of votes - 2,11,280 - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A message is viral on social media claiming that multiple BJP candidates had received an identical number of votes, and it is being suggested that such a result cannot be achieved without EVMs being rigged. 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