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Bathinda Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 Punjab: Harsimrat Kaur Badal defeated Amarinder Singh Raja by 21772 votes to win the seat.
Updated : May 23, 2019, 08:28 PM IST
Union minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal defeated Congress' Amarinder Singh Raka by 21,772 votes to win the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat. Union minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal defeated Congress' Amarinder Singh Raja by 21772 votes to win the seat. Harsimrat Kaur Badal got 4,90,811 i.e. 41.04% of the vote, while Amrinder Singh Raja got 4,69,412 (39.23%) votes. AAP's Prof. Baljinder Kaur got 134398 (11.19%) votes.
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.
Polling in Bathinda parliamentary constituency was held on May 19 in the 7th phase (last phase) of the general election 2019. The key contest here was among Union minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Congress' Amarinder Singh Raka, AAP's Baljinder Kaur and Punjab Ekta Party (PEP) chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira.
SAD: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Congress: Amrinder Singh Raka
AAP: Baljinder Kaur
PEP: Sukhpal Singh Khaira
2014
Winning candidate: Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD)
Losing candidate: Manpreet Singh Badal (Congress)
2009
Winning candidate: Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Congress)
Losing candidate: Raninder Singh (SAD)
2004
Winning candidate: Paramjit Kaur Gulshan (SAD)
Losing candidate: Kaushalya Chaman Bhaura
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.