# 2024 Indian general election in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

The 2024 Indian general election was held in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu on 7 May 2024 to elect two members of the 18th Lok Sabha. These elections are the first to take place in the union territory after it was formed on 2020 with the merger of the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

## Election schedule

| Poll event | Phase |
| Poll event | III |
| Notification Date | 12 April 2024 |
| Last Date for filing nomination | 19 April 2024 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 20 April 2024 |
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 22 April 2024 |
| Date of poll | 7 May 2024 |
| Date of counting of votes/Result | 4 June 2024 |
| No. of constituencies | 2 |

## Parties and alliances
### National Democratic Alliance

| Party | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| | Bharatiya Janata Party | | | Lalubhai Patel | 2 |

### Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

| Party | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| | Indian National Congress | | | Ketan Dahyabhai Patel | 2 |

### Others

| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | | | Borsa Sandipbhai Shankarbhai | 1 |
| Bharat Adivasi Party | | | Kurada Deepakbhai | 1 |
| Navsarjan Bharat Party | | | | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 3 |

## Candidates

| Constituency | Constituency | | | | | | |
| Constituency | Constituency | NDA | NDA | NDA | INDIA | INDIA | INDIA |
| 1. | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | | BJP | Kalaben Delkar | | INC | Ajit Ramjibhai Mahla |
| 2 | Daman and Diu | | BJP | Lalubhai Patel | | INC | Ketan Dahyabhai Patel |

## Surveys and polls
### Opinion polls

| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | | | | Lead |
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | NDA | INDIA | Others | Lead |
| ABP News-CVoter | March 2024 | ±5% | 2 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
| Times Now-ETG | December 2023 | ±3% | 2 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
| India TV-CNX | October 2023 | ±3% | 2 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
| Times Now-ETG | September 2023 | ±3% | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | NDA |
| Times Now-ETG | August 2023 | ±3% | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | NDA |
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | | | | Lead |
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | NDA | INDIA | Others | Lead |
| ABP News-CVoter | March 2024 | ±5% | 52% | 19% | 29% | 23 |

### Exit polls

| Polling agency | | | | Lead |
| Polling agency | NDA | INDIA | Others | Lead |
| Actual Results | 1 | 0 | 1 | Tie |

## Results
### Results by alliance or party

| Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Alliance/ Party | Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− |
| | NDA | | BJP | 157,076 | 52.79% | | 2 | 1 | |
| | INDIA | | INC | 74,660 | 25.09% | | 2 | 0 | |
| | Others | Others | Others | 13,889 | 4.67% | | 3 | 0 | |
| | IND | IND | IND | 45,790 | 15.90% | | 5 | 1 | |
| | NOTA | NOTA | NOTA | 6,121 | 2.06% | | | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 297,536 | 100% | - | 12 | 2 | - |

### Results by constituency

| Constituency | Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Runner Up | Margin |
| Constituency | Constituency | Turnout | Party | Party | Alliance | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Party | Alliance | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Margin |
| 1. | Dadra and Nagar Haveli (ST) | 72.52% | | BJP | | NDA | Kalaben Delkar | 1,21,074 | 58.89% | | INC | | INDIA | Ajit Mahala | 63,490 | 30.88% | 57,584 |
| 2 | Daman and Diu | 68.77% | | Independent | | Independent | Umesh Babubhai Patel | 42,523 | 46.02% | | BJP | | NDA | Lalubhai Patel | 36,298 | 39.28% | 6,225 |