Congress candidate Priyanka Gandhi is poised for an enormous win in her maiden electoral battle from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, early developments counsel.
When 3,33,298 votes have been counted until 10.40 am on Saturday, Priyanka had bagged 64.12 % of the votes, whereas her rivals Sathyan Mokeri of LDF and Navy Haridas of BJP bought 21.96 per cent and 12.34 per cent, respectively. The overall polled votes within the constituency, which went to the by-election on November 13, have been 9,52,543.
Congress had little to fret about so far as the bypoll consequence was involved, and the main target of the marketing campaign was to make sure the utmost margin for the high-profile candidate. Senior leaders had been working on the grassroots stage, concentrating on a 5 lakh-plus majority for Priyanka, whose contest had introduced the landslide-hit area to nationwide limelight.
However, the constituency ended up recording a voter turnout of 64.72 per cent, the bottom polling share recorded in Wayanad since its formation in 2009. It had recorded 72.92 per cent of polling within the basic election held earlier this yr, and 80.33 per cent in 2019, when Rahul Gandhi had fought from the seat for the primary time.
The turnout had raised considerations in Congress camp, however developments counsel the Congress-led UDF managed to carry its voters to polling cubicles. Congress has a weak organisational equipment there, however MLAs and MPs got fees of every meeting constituency falling beneath Wayanad.
Priyanka had gone to each panchayat with not less than one nook assembly as a part of her marketing campaign, way more than her brother Rahul Gandhi, who held only some programmes within the constituency when he contested in April 2024 and 2019. Apart from, Priyanka stayed again on the constituency on polling day and visited extra cubicles than some other candidate.
The figures obtained from counting centres present that Priyanka is doing properly throughout the constituency, the place Muslims type 41 per cent of voters and Christians 13 per cent. BJP had centered on Christian areas within the constituency, giving particular concentrate on the Waqf land row. Nevertheless, counting in Christian areas additionally exhibits that voters have opted for Priyanka there too.
To again Priyanka’s native join, the Congress had mobilised nationwide leaders, primarily from Karnataka, to marketing campaign for her.
Since Priyanka’s victory regarded sure, the CPI(M)-led LDF and BJP-led NDA didn’t make important efforts within the grassroots-level marketing campaign, and neither occasion introduced nationwide leaders to marketing campaign for his or her candidates. BJP had its Kerala in cost Prakash Javadekar as the one chief from exterior Kerala who campaigned for occasion candidate Navya Haridas.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had solely a day’s marketing campaign in Wayanad, the place he alleged that Priyanka is combating the elections with the backing of Jamaat-e-Islami, which is “standing for Islamic regime”.
Within the Lok Sabha elections held in April, 2024, Rahul had received with a margin of three.64 lakh votes and he pocketed 59.69 per cent of the polled votes. On the time, LDF had bagged 29.09 per cent of the votes and BJP 13 per cent. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul bagged 64 per cent of the polled votes.
