The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won three states in the recently concluded elections to five state Assemblies and the Congress bagged one but in terms of overall votes polled, it is the latter which had a narrow lead of 11 lakhs.
If we combine the votes polled by each of the parties in the five states, the BJP's total number of votes come to 4.81 crore and that of the Congress are a total 4.92 crore.
Of course, the Congress' lead is mainly due to the massive vote difference between it and the BJP in Telangana. In Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, the BJP polled sizably more votes than the Congress.