Parkash Singh Badal wins Lambi seat defeating Amrinder Singh

Badal wins Lambi assembly seatv by defeating Amrinder seat/ PTI image

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday was able to secure his electoral seat by defeating Amarinder Singh in the Lambi assembly seat by a margin of over 22,000 votes. But Amarinder Singh won the Patiala-Urban seat comfortably.

•  Badal, 89, won comfortably by a margin of 22,770 votes over the Congress party's Amarinder Singh, who is set to become the new Chief Minister

• However, Amarinder was the clear winner from his traditional assembly constituency of Patiala-Urban

• He won the Patiala seat by 52,407 votes, defeating his Aam Aadmi Party rival, Balbir Singh

• Gen J.J. Singh, a former Army chief and ex-Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, who was the Shiromani Akali Dal candidate from Patiala-Urban seat, forfeited his security deposit in the election

• The ex-General polled only 11,677 votes compared to Amarinder's 72,586 votes.