The ruling Congress has registered a massive victory in the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha by-poll as party candidate Sunil Jakhar received 1,93,219 votes over his nearest rival BJP candidate Swaran Salaria.
Voting for Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat by-poll had taken place on Wednesday morning which fell vacant after the demise of actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna of the BJP in April 2017. Apart from Congress and BJP, AAP was the third major contestant in the by-poll and had pitted Major General (Retired) Suresh Khajaria against the two parties.
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Two counting centres have been set up for the counting of votes. For six assembly constituencies of Gurdaspur district, counting center has been set up at Sukhjindra College, Gurdaspur and for three assembly constituencies of Pathankot district, counting centre has been set up at the SD College in Pathankot. Â
The Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat has nine Assembly segments-- Bhoa, Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Dinanagar, Qadian, FathegarhChurian, Dera Baba Nanak, Sujanpur and Batala.
Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar had earlier claimed the by-poll would be a "referendum" on the Modi government. The BJP had also tried pulling out all the stops to retain the seat, which Khanna had won four times on its ticket.
A victory would give a much-needed boost to the BJP, which had bagged just one segment of Sujanpur out of the four seats it had contested in the assembly polls.Â
The AAP, the main opposition party in Punjab with 20seats in the House, was also looking to strengthen itspresence in the state with victory in the by-poll.Â
The high-stakes Gurdaspur Lok Sabha by-poll recorded a 56per cent voter turnout on October 11, lower than 70.03 percent recorded in the 2014 general elections.
Out of nine assembly segments falling in Gurdaspur LokSabha seat, Dera Baba Nanak Vidhan Sabha constituency had registered maximum voting percentage at 65 percent while the Batala Vidhan Sabha constituency had witnessed lowest voting percentage at 50 percent.
The polling percentage in the nine assembly segments was also lower than what was recorded in 2017 assembly elections. Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat has been a stronghold of the BJP. Actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna had remained four-time MP from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat. Khanna had died of cancer at a hospital in Mumbai on 27 April 2017.
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