Results on 13 seats of Punjab declared on Tuesday showed the Congress party capturing the seven seats in comparison to three seats by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), one by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and two by independent (IND), according to the data from the Election Commission of India (ECI).
The seven seats secured by the Congress party were Gurdaspur with Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa as the winning candidate, Gurjeet Singh Aujla in Amritsar, Charanjit Singh Channi in Jalandhar, Amrinder Singh Raja Warring in Ludhiana, Amar Singh in Fatehgarh Sahib, Sher Singh Ghubaya in Firozpur and Dharamvira Gandhi in Patiala.
On the other hand, AAP’s Raj Kumar Chabbewal in Hoshiarpur, Malvinder Singh Kang in Anandpur Sahib, and Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer in Sangrur secured victories. SAD was restricted to only Bathinda seat with Harsimrat Kaur Badal emerging victorious. Independent candidates Amritpal Singh (pro-Khalistani separatist) won the Khadoor Sahib seat while Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa (elder son of Beant Singh, one of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassins) registered win in Faridkot.
Voting in Punjab took place across 13 seats in a single phase on June 1 with a 55.98 per cent voter turnout across its 13 Lok Sabha seats this election vis-a-vis the 65.94 per cent turnout in 2019. The counting of votes took place across 117 locations in Punjab.
The losing candidates across 13 seats in Punjab were BJP’s Dinesh Singh Babbu in Gurdaspur, AAP’s Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal in Amritsar, BJP’s Sushil Kumar Rinku in Jalandhar, BJP’s Ravneet Singh Bittu in Ludhiana, AAP’s Gurpreet Singh GP in Fatehgarh Sahib, AAP’s Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar in Firozpur, AAP’s Balbir Singh in Patiala, Congress’s Yamini Gomar in Hoshiarpur, Congress’s Vijay Inder Singla in Anandpur Sahib, Congress’s Sukhpal Singh Khaira in Sangrur, AAP’s Gurmeet Singh Khudian in Bathinda, Congress’s Kulbir Singh Zira in Khadoor Sahib and AAP’s Karamjit Singh Anmol in Faridkot.
In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress was the single largest party in the state with 8 seats on its side in comparison to two seats each with SAD and BJP and one seat with AAP. Back in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, SAD and BJP had secured four seats each while the Congress had secured three seats and AAP two seats.