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- Manish Tewari of INC won Sri Anandpur Sahib Constituency.
- INC's Gurjeet Aujula won Amritsar constituency with 51 percent votes.
- Harsimrat Kaur BAdal from SAD won Bathinda constituency.
- Mohammad Sadique of INC won Fardikot constituency.
- INC's Amar Singh won Fatehgarh Sahib constituency.
- Firozpur constituency was won by INC candidate Sukhbir Singh Badal.
- Actor turned politician, Sunny Deol won Gurdaspur constituency for BJP.
- Som Prakash won Hoshiarpur constituency for BJP.
- Jalandhar constituency was won by Choudhary Sanktosh Singh of INC.
- Preneet Kaur of INC won Patiala constituency.
- AAP candidate Bhagwant Mann won Sangrur constituency.
- Jasbir Singh Dimpa of INC won Khadoor Sahib constituency.
- Punjab CM Capt. Amarinder Singh on Congress's Sunil Jakhar trailing from Gurdaspur: "Sunil ji is a fine candidate, he had done a lot of work there. This is one thing I didn't understand that people gave preference to an actor than to experience."
- Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu won in Ludhiana constituency by 70,045 votes
- Congress's Manish Tewari leading from Anandpur Sahib
- Aam Aadmi Party's Bhagwant Mann leading from Sangrur
- SAD's Harsimrat Kaur Badal leading from Bhatinda
- Sunny Deol is leading by 40,000 votes in Gurdaspur
- Aam Aadmi Party is leading from Sangrur seat in Punjab
- Congress is leading in 8 seats in Punjab while the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP in two Lok Sabha seats each
- Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal who represents Bathinda parliamentary constituency is trailing
- BJP's Sunny Deol is leading from Gurdaspur seat
- Counting underway in Chandigarh Lok Sabha constituency
- Congress's Manish Tewari leading from Anandpur Sahib
- Aam Aadmi Party's Bhagwant Mann leading from Sangrur
- SAD's Harsimrat Kaur Badal leading from Bhatinda
Chandigarh: The counting of 1.37 crore ballots for the 13 parliamentary seats of Punjab began on Thursday morning amidst tight security, electoral officials said. Amid reports of minor skirmishes, 65.96 per cent voting was recorded on May 19 in the seventh and final phase of the general elections.
Counting underway in Punjab
The result will decide the fate of 278 candidates, including 24 women.
Thirty-nine companies of central forces have been deployed for the security of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) at 21 locations across the state, an official said.
The main contest in the state is between the ruling Congress and the Akali Dal-BJP combine.
