New Delhi: Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain has lost to his rival, Karnail Singh, from the saffron party, in the Shakur Basti Assembly segment, on Saturday.
Though Jain appeared to have taken early leads in the counting which began earlier in the day for the Delhi Assembly elections 2025, the BJP nominee managed to finish at the top.
At the end of 11 rounds of counting, Karnail who is also the chief of its Delhi Mandir Prakoshth polled 56,869 votes. Of which 299 were postal votes. He managed to bag 57.07 per cent of the valid votes polled.
Jain polled 35,871 votes including 86 postal votes, accounting for 36 per cent of the votes.
Jain was seeking a re-election. He has already won the seat three times - in the 2020, 2015 and 2013 assembly elections. Jain faced a tough challenge from the BJP nominee.
The contest remained bipolar as predicted. The candidature of Satish Kumar Luthra from Congress did not have any bearing on the outcome of the election.
Luthra polled 5.8 per cent of the votes, which is 5,784 votes. A total of 99,652 votes were polled during the elections.
The poll officials have taken up the counting of postal votes initially. Thirty minutes later, they began counting the EVM votes.
Shakur Basti seat is located in the North district of Delhi and comes under the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2020 Delhi Assembly polls, Shakur Basti seat had a total of 1,46,226 electors. The total number of valid votes was 98,524. Satyender Jain won the seat securing 51,165 votes. His nearest rival BJP candidate S C Vats finished second with 43,573 votes.
In 2015, Shakur Basti seat had a total of 1,47,262 electors. The total number of valid votes was 1,05,449. As AAP candidate, Satyender Jain won the seat polling 51,530 votes. He defeated Vats, who contested on a BJP ticket. Vats polled 48,397 votes.
In the 2013 Delhi Assembly polls, Shakur Basti seat had a total of 1,34,433 electors. The total number of valid votes was 94,533. Satyendra Kumar Jain(Satyendar Jain), in his maiden poll plunge as AAP candidate, won the election with 40,232 votes. His nearest rival and BJP nominee Shyam Lal Garg got 33,170 votes.
