Ludhiana West bypoll result 2025: AAP's Sanjeev Arora secures big win; Kejriwal says 'Punjab happy with us'
AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora addresses the media amid celebrations by party workers following lead in the Ludhiana West bypoll, June 23, 2025. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
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Ludhiana: AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora secured a decisive victory in the Ludhiana West Assembly bypoll, leading by a margin of 10,637 votes over Congress nominee Bharat Bhushan Ashu after the 14th and final round of counting on Monday.
Arora finished with 35,179 votes, while Ashu trailed with 24,542 votes.
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BJP’s Jiwan Gupta secured third place with 20,323 votes, and Shiromani Akali Dal’s Parupkar Singh Ghuman stood fourth with 8,203 votes.
The win consolidates AAP’s hold on the Ludhiana West seat, which became vacant following the death of party MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January this year.
There were 14 candidates in the fray. The counting of votes for the June 19 bypoll began at 8 am at a centre set up at Khalsa College for Women here.
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A voter turnout of 51.33 per cent was recorded in the bypoll, a sharp drop from the 64 per cent voting registered in the 2022 state polls.
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People rejected both BJP and Congress in bypolls: Kejriwal
June 23, 2025 3:31 pm
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal said people are fed up with the BJP in Gujarat and stressed that people had rejected both Congress and BJP in the bypolls. AAP leader Gopal Italia won the Visavadar seat, while BJP's Rajendra Chavda bagged the Kadi seat on Monday, as counting for bypolls to the two constituencies in Gujarat concluded, officials said. AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora appears to be heading for a victory from the Ludhiana West assembly seat in Punjab leading with a margin of over 7,000 votes against his nearest rival and Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu, according to initial trends. He said the results of Ludhiana West show that the people of Punjab are very happy with the work of the government and they have given more votes as compared to 2022." "The people of Gujarat are now fed up with BJP and they are seeing hope in Aam Aadmi Party," he said in a post on X in Hindi. Thanking the people of Punjab and Gujarat, Kejriwal said people had rejected both BJP and Congress in these bypolls. "Many congratulations to all of you on the splendid victory of Aam Aadmi Party in Visavadar seat of Gujarat and Ludhiana West seat of Punjab. Many congratulations and many thanks to the people of Gujarat and Punjab. In both the places, the victory margin has been almost double as compared to the last election," Kejriwal said in a post on X in Hindi. "Both the parties, Congress and BJP, contested the elections together in both the places. Both of them had the same objective - to defeat AAP. But people rejected both these parties in both the places," he claimed in the post.
Big win in Ludhiana West reflects public trust in AAP’s governance: CM Bhagwant Mann
June 23, 2025 2:49 pm
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