Jameel Aahmed Milansaar: Assembly Elections 2012 Some big losers and winners

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Assembly Elections 2012 Some big losers and winners

Uttarakhand Chief Minister BC Khanduri
was defeated by Surendra Singh Negi of
the Congress in the Kotdwar constituency.

Leader of Opposition in the UP assembly and
SP nominee Shivpal Yadav retained
Jaswantnagar seat by defeating
BSP's Manish Yadav by a margin of 81,084 votes.

Sitting Congress MLA Amita Singh loses to
SP candidate Gyatri Prasad Prajapati
by a margin of over 7,000 votes in Amethi

Heavyweight D P Yadav loses from Sahaswan assembly
seat where Onkar Singh Yadav of SP won defeating BSP's
Babar Miyan by 7,062 votes. Yadav had contested
as a candidate of his party Rashtriya Parivartan Dal.

Louis Khurshid, wife of Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid,loses from Farukkhabad assembly seat where Independent candidate Vijay Singh defeats BJP's Major Sunil Dutt Dwiwedi by a slender margin of 147 votes.

Sitting Independent MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who fought the elections under the 'Quami Ekta Dal', wins from Mau Sadar seat by defeating his nearest rival Bhim Rajbhar of BSP by a margin of about 5,000 votes

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal retains his Lambi seat defeating his nearest Congress rival and cousin, Mahesh Inder Singh Badal, by a margin of 24,739 votes.

Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal wins from Jalalabad seat by a margin of 50,289 votes.

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh retains Patiala constituency by defeating ruling SAD's Surjit Singh Kohli by a margin of 42,318 votes. His son Raninder Singh loses by 6,930 votes from Samana seat

BJP candidate Navjot Kaur, wife of Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, wins Amritsar (East) constituency by defeating an Independent candidate by a margin of 7,099 votes.

Former Indian Hockey captain and SAD candidate Pargat Singh wins from Jalandhar Cantt by defeating Congress rival Jagbir Singh Brar by a margin of 6,798 votes