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Lok Sabha election 2019: BJP hopes to repeat 2014 performance in Rajasthan’s Pali
The BJP had won all 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan in the 2014 elections. However, the Congress won bypolls in two constituencies in 2018, reducing the BJP’s strength to 23.
The boundaries of the Pali Lok Sabha constituency were redrawn in 2008 following delimitation of parliamentary constituencies.
In 2014, riding on the BJP wave, the party’s PP Choudhury defeated the Congress candidate Munni Devi Godara by an impressive margin of nearly 4 lakh votes.
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This year, the BJP has repeated its candidate while the Congress has fielded the 2009 winner from the constituency Badri Ram Jakhar.
The BJP had won all 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan in the 2014 elections. However, the Congress won bypolls in two constituencies in 2018, reducing the BJP’s strength to 23.
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Rajasthan’s 25 seats go to polls in two phases on April 29 and May 6. The votes will be counted on May 23.
Here are some details about the Pali Lok Sabha seat:
State: Rajasthan
Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Pali
Polling date: April 29
Sitting MP, party: P P Choudhary, BJP
Winning margin in 2014: 399,039
Runner up name, party: Munni Devi Godara, Congress
Number of voters in 2014: 1,097,253
Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 58%
Number of women voters in 2014: 514,488
Number of polling booths in 2014: 2,057
