The Aam Aadmi Party is set to win the by-election to the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat. As of 2 PM, AAP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku had a lead of more than 58,000 votes over his Congress rival Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary.
As of 2 PM, these were the numbers on the Election Commission of India results website:
AAP: 3,02,097
Congress: 2,43,450
BJP: 134706
SAD: 158354
The bypoll was necessitated following the demise of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary.
The Congress had fielded Chaudhary's widow Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary while AAP had fielded former Congress MLA Sushil Kumar Rinku who joined the party on the eve of the election.
As of 10 AM, 3.13 lakh votes had been counted out of the 8.87 lakh votes that had been polled. The voter turnout was 54.70 percent.