Balaghat Election Result 2024 Live Updates: BJP's Bharti Pardhi Has Won This Lok Sabha Seat
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Balaghat Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 Live Updates: With the counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections underway, the results for one of the biggest elections in the world are finally being declared.
Over seven thousand candidates are in the electoral fray to gain the mandate of over 900 million eligible voters across 543 constituencies spread across 28 states and 9 union territories. The voting for these parliamentary elections were held in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024. Now, it is time for the results.
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Live Updates of Balaghat Lok Sabha Election Results 2024
The polling for Balaghat was held in Phase 1 on 19 April.
The key candidates for the 2024 General Elections in Balaghat are Bharti Pardhi (BJP) and Samrat Ashok Singh Saraswar (Congress).
As per the latest trends of counting of votes for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP's Bharti Pardhi has won Balaghat seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Balaghat seat was won by BJP candidate Dr Dhal Singh Bisen, while Congress candidate Madhu Bhagat had come in second place.
In 2014's General Elections, Balaghat constituency was won by BJP candidate Bodhsingh Bhagat and Congress candidate Hina Likhiram Kawre was the runner-up.
Assembly seats that fall under Balaghat parliamentary constituency include Baihar, Lanji, Paraswada, Balaghat, Waraseoni, Katangi, Barghat, Seoni.
Balaghat is one of the Lok Sabha seats of Madhya Pradesh.
Madhya Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections 2024
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 29 seats of Madhya Pradesh went to polls in the first four phases of voting. The state recorded about 65% voter turnout in polling across the four phases.
State’s ruling party BJP is contesting on all the 29 Lok Sabha seats. Congress and SP formed an alliance ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. According to their seat-sharing agreement, Congress fielded candidates on 28 seats, while SP got Khajuraho's seat under its account. However, in the run up to the polls, SP’s candidature in Khajuraho was rejected and Congress' candidate from Indore withdrew his nomination, leaving Congress' total candidates to 27. In Khajuraho, Congress and SP have extended their support to the candidate of All India Forward Bloc.
BJP won unprecedented 28 out of the 29 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh. Congress could win just one seat. BJP's performance was a step-up from the previous Lok Sabha elections of 2014, when it won 27 seats, while Congress won 2 seats.
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