The Congress on Sunday Oct 15,2017 wrested the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat from the BJP, with the party’s candidate, Sunil Jakhar, winning the bypoll by a record margin of over 1.93 lakh votes.
Sunil Jakhar polled 4,99,752 votes against 3,06,553 votes cast for Swaran Singh Salaria, the BJP candidate.
Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Suresh Khajuria polled 23,579 votes, and lost his security deposit.
Sunil Jakhar polled 4,99,752 votes against 3,06,553 votes cast for Swaran Singh Salaria, the BJP candidate.
Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Suresh Khajuria polled 23,579 votes, and lost his security deposit.
The record for the biggest victory margin for Gurdaspur seat until now lay with Congress’s Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder, who had won with a margin of 1.51 lakh votes in 1980.
The margin seems more impressive when seen against the much lower voter turnout of 56 per cent, against 70 per cent polling recorded in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, when actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna defeated Congress’s Partap Singh Bajwa by 1.36 lakh votes. The bypoll was necessitated by Khanna’s death earlier this year
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