Jhotwara Assembly Elections 2023 Jhalrapatan Results 2023: BJP candidate and Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the Jhotwara assembly seat in Rajasthan by a margin of 50,167 votes, the Election Commission of India announced on Sunday.

The 53-year-old former Union minister secured 1,47,913 votes and defeated his nearest rival Abhishek Choudhary of the Congress. BJP rebel Ashu Singh Surpura, who contested as an independent candidate, stood in the third position with 55,159 votes.

Rathore is a national spokesperson of the BJP. Before entering politics in September 2013, the ace shooter and former Olympic silver medallist served in the Army for 23 years. He took voluntary retirement in 2013.

Rathore won a silver medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics in double trap shooting. He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and won from the Jaipur Rural seat. He was sworn in as the minister of state for information and broadcasting in November 2014. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in the 2019 general elections.

The voter turnout in Jhotwara constituency of Rajasthan was 71 per cent. The results of the polls held on November 25 will be declared on December 3, according to the official notification by the ECI. Ashok Gehlot from the Congress party became the Chief Minister of Rajasthan in 2018 with 100 seats and BJP stood second with 73 seats.

In the Jhotwara constituency of Rajasthan district, Lalchand Kataria from Congress emerged as the winner of 2018 assembly elections. BJP’s Rajpal Singh Shekhawat was the runner-up. The 2023 Rajasthan Assembly elections is largely a two-way contest between the ruling Indian National Congress (INC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Congress has listed Abhishek Choudhary for Jhotwara constituency while BJP has chosen Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore as its candidate.

The exit polls for Rajasthan Assembly elections 2023, by various news agencies and new channels, will be released after Telangana elections are closed on 30 November 2023.

The counting of votes has begun for Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2023.

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