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Sangrur Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 Punjab: AAP's Bhagwant Mann seems set to retain seat

Polling in all the 13 Parliamentary constituency was held in the last phase of general elections.

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Sangrur Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

Aam Aadmi Party state chief, Bhagwant Mann, seems set to win the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat to prevent a complete rout for his party in Punjab. Mann (4,13,561 - 37.4% ) was leading Kewal Singh Dhillon (3,03,350 - 27.43% ) of Congress by a huge margin.

Punjab Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

The Congress is set to improve its tally in Punjab to eight seats, while the SAD-BJP combine and the Aam Aadmi Party are heading for four and one seats, respectively.

The Congress won in Amritsar, Faridkot, Anandpur Sahib, Jalandhar, Khadoor Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala seats.

The Shiromani Akali Dal, which was looking to resurrect itself in the polls following the backlash over the issue of desecration of religious scriptures, registered victory from Ferozepur and Bathinda seats. While SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal won from Ferozepur, union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal won from Bathinda for the third time. 

The BJP took the Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur seats. Actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol beat state Congress chief Sunil Jakhar in Gurdaspur. In Hoshiarpur, BJP candidate and former bureaucrat Som Prakash emerged victorious.

The Aam Aadmi Party appears to be decimated in Punjab as it held only Sangrur seat, where the party's state chief, Bhagwant Mann held on to his seat.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, while the SAD-BJP combine had won six seats, AAP and the Congress had bagged four and three seats, respectively.

Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency profile

Sangrur comprises of nine assembly segments which include Lehra, Dirba (SC), Sunam, Bhadaur (SC), Barnala, Mehal Kalan (SC), Malerkotla, Dhuri and Sangrur.

Sangrur sitting MP and AAP candidate for the upcoming election Bhagwant Mann is once again is fully confident of winning from this seat with a margin. Recently, the leader was seen campaigning with party chief Arvind Kejriwal. In 2014, Bhagwant Mann defeated Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa of the SAD by a margin of close to 2 lakh votes.  

Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency 2019 candidates 

AAP: Bhagwant Mann 

Congress: Kewal Singh Dhillion

SAD: Parminder Singh Dhindsa 

Sangrur Lok Sabha results in 2014, 2009 and 2004

2014

Winning candidate: Bhagwant Mann (AAP)

Losing candidate: Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (SAD)

2009

Winning candidate: Vijay Inder (Congress)

Losing candidate: Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa  (SAD)

2004

Winning candidate: Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (SAD)

Losing candidate: Arvind Khanna (Congress)

Punjab has 13 parliamentary constituencies where the election will be held in the last phase of the general election on May 19. In 2014, out of total 13 Lok Sabha seats, Shiromani Akali Dal had won 4 seats, AAP had also won 4 seats, Congress bagged 3 seats and BJP won only 2 seats. The vote share of the Congress party in 2014 was 33.2%, while BJP got only 8.8% votes.

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