Jamnagar: Sitting BJP MP from Jamnagar Lok Sabha Seat Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam registered her third consecutive win, defeating her nearest rival Congress' J. P. Maraviya by a massive margin of 2,38,008 votes.
Jamnagar Lok Sabha seat comprises seven assembly segments. Traditionally a stronghold of the BJP and a Patel dominated seat, Jamnagar Lok Sabha seat has been intermittently won by the Congress since the first Lok Sabha election was held in 1951. The BJP held the seat from 1989 till 1999 when BJP leader Chandresh Patel was in the prime of his political career. The seat was wrested by Congress in the 2004 election when Vikram Maadam defeated a formidable Chandresh Patel. Vikram retained the seat in 2009, but was defeated by his party defector niece and current sitting MP Poonam Maadam in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
