Indore Election Results 2019: The Madhya Pradesh constituency has picked BJP’s Sumitra Mahajan past eight terms

In 2014, Mahajan had defeated Congress’s Satyanarayan Patel by a hefty margin of 4.66 lakh votes.

BJP’s Sumitra Mahajan, popularly called Tai, has been the lawmaker from the Indore Lok Sabha in Madhya Pradesh and has represented the constituency eight consecutive times since 1989.

Votera queue up outside a polling booth in Bhopal on May 12, the sixth phase in the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections 2019 (ANI file photo)

This time the BJP has decided to field Shankar Lalwani. On 5 April, a week before she turned 76, Mahajan wrote a letter to the BJP top leadership saying they were free to choose another candidate. “I think there is some dilemma (in the party). So, I announce that I will not contest the Lok Sabha polls. The party can decide freely.”

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In 2014, she had defeated Congress’s Satyanarayan Patel by a hefty margin of 4.66 lakh votes. One of the 29 Lok Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh, this constituency covers most of the Indore district.

Currently, Shankar Lalwani is leading the vote count after the initial counting.

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Here’s all you need to know about the Indore Lok Sabha constituency:

State: Madhya Pradesh

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Indore

Date of polling: May 19

2019 candidates: Shankar Lalwani (BJP), Pankaj Sanghvi (Congress)

Sitting MP, Party: Sumitra Mahajan (BJP)

Winning margin in 2014: 466,901

Runner up name, party: Satyanarayan Patel, Congress

Number of voters in 2014: 1,317,016

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 62

Number of women voters: 580,058

Number of polling booths in 2014:2,206