Jalandhar West By-election Result 2024: The Aam Aadmi Party has won the Jalandhar West assembly seat byelection in Punjab. AAP candidate Mohinderpal Bhagat registered a massive victory over the BJP and Congress by over 30,000 votes. BJP's Sheetal Angural, who defeated Mohinderpal Bhagat in the 2022 assembly elections, finished second, while Surinder Kaur of the Congress came behind her. The bypoll to the seat was necessitated by Angural's defection to the BJP.
Mohinderpal Bhagat's Trumps BJP, Congress
AAP candidate Mohinderpal Bhagat won the polls by 37,325 votes. He raked in 55,246 votes. BJP's Sheetal Angural got 17,921 votes and Congress's Surinder Kaur managed to scrape just 16,757 votes.
Mohinderpal Bhagat's vote share was 58.39%. Sheetal Angural could bag just 18.94% of the votes, while Surinder Kaur followed close behind with 17.71% votes. Shiromani Akali Dal was nowhere in the contest with its candidate Surjit Kaur bagging a mere 1,242 votes, which was 1.31% of the total polled votes.
Voting for the by-election was held on July 10 in Jalandhar West seat. A total of 54.90 percent
The Jalandhar West assembly seat was closely contested in the bypolls. Traditionally, the seat has chosen fresh candidates every time. However, this year, the Aam Aadmi Party has managed to repeat its win.
In 2012, BJP won the seat, while in 2017 the voters of the constituency chose Congress. In the 2022 elections, the AAP secured a win.
The result of the by-election has come in contrast to the recent Lok Sabha elections. In fact, in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress had come first on this seat, while BJP had come second and Aam Aadmi Party had come third. In this by-election, AAP has come first, BJP second and Congress third.