Baghpat Lok Sabha Election 2024 Result Highlights: Baghpat, the Jat dominated constituency of Uttar Pradesh, stands at the heart of farmers’ politics. This constituency, deeply influenced by the family of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, has a storied history of electing representatives from the Jat community. Ajit Singh, Charan Singh’s son, won the Baghpat Lok Sabha seat six times, including a victory in the 2009 general elections. However, the family’s influence waned with Ajit Singh’s defeat in 2014 and his son, Jayant Chaudhary’s, loss in 2019.
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Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Dr Rajkumar Sangwan has won from the seat by a margin of 1,59,459 votes.
Rashtriya Lok Dal's Dr Rajkumar Sangwan is still on the top spot maintaining a lead over Samajwadi Party’s Amarpal and BSP candidate Praveen Bansal by more than 1 lakh votes. SP is on the second spot while BSP is on the third.
Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Dr Rajkumar Sangwan is holding the lead over Samajwadi Party’s Amarpal and BSP candidate Praveen Bansal. The vote margin for Sangwan has also surged and is currently at 64,041.
Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Dr Rajkumar Sangwan is currently maintaining its lead over Samajwadi Party's Amarpal and BSP candidate Praveen Bansal. Sangwan is leading by a margin of over 46000 votes.
Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate Dr Rajkumar Sangwan is currently leading by more than 16000 votes in the Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat seat. Samajwadi Party's Amarpal is trailing on the seat. (Image: ECI)
The first trends as per Times Now show the BJP is currently leading on the jat dominated seats in the state.
The key candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections in Baghpat are RLD candidate Dr Rajkumar Sangwan and Samajwadi Party's Amarpal.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Baghpat seat was won by BJP candidate Dr. Satyapal Singh, with RLD candidate Jayant Chaudhary finishing second. In the 2014 General Elections, Singh won the Baghpat constituency, while SP candidate Ghulam Mohammed was the runner-up.
In the 2024 elections, the Samajwadi Party fielded Amarpal Sharma from the India Alliance, while the NDA allocated the seat to the Rashtriya Lok Dal’s (RLD) Rajkumar Sangwan. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nominated Praveen Bainsala. Voting for the Baghpat seat occurred in the second phase on April 26.
BJP's Satyapal Singh won the seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of fewer than 25,000 votes. However, in 2014 general polls where Singh was a winner, he secured over 40% of the votes, significantly ahead of his Samajwadi Party rival, who garnered just over 21%.