New Delhi: In the Jangpura Assembly seat, the Bharatiya Janata Party nominee Tarvinder Singh Marwah, a three-time MLA, has sent former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia off from the Assembly, on Saturday.
ETV Bharat's ground reporting team has called the results for this assembly segment through a logical formula, though the official announcement is yet to come.
As per the Election Commission of India, Marwah has polled 34,632 votes while the senior Aam Aadmi Party leader managed to get 34,060 votes, trailing by 572 in the first nine rounds. The results updated in the Commission's portal showed that one more round is yet to be updated.
The congress candidate Farhad Suri has bagged 6,866
From the beginning, Sisodia was trailing. His vote graph was oscillating on both quadrants - lead and trail.
The counting of postal votes which began at 8 am simultaneously at all the 70 constituencies of the Delhi Assembly.
All eyes were on the Jangpura Assembly seat in the national capital as the senior AAP leader Sisodia was in the fray against a three-time MLA from the saffron party and the Congress candidate who is a former Mayor of Delhi.
Jangpura seat is located in the South-East district of Delhi and comes under the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections, the Jangpura seat had a total of 1,46,383 electors. The total number of valid votes was 88,284. Kumar bagged 45,133 votes to defeat his nearest rival by 16,063 votes. BJP candidate Impreet Singh Bakshi stood second with a total of 29,070 votes.
In the 2015 Assembly polls, the electorate strength of Jangpura was 1,42,038 voters. Of which 90,990 cast their votes and were accepted as valid votes. Kumar won with an AAP ticket, securing a total of 43,927 votes. BJP nominee Maninder Singh Dhir came second with a tally of 23,477 votes. He lost by 20,450 votes.
In the 2013 Delhi Assembly polls, the Jangpura seat's electorate size was 1,29,053 electors. The number of valid votes polled was 79,820. AAP candidate Maninder Singh Dhir who won from the seat secured 29,701 votes. Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who was with Congress back then, finished in the second spot with 27,957 votes. His losing margin was 1,744 votes.
