Chandigarh Lok Sabha constituency is the lone parliamentary seat in the Chandigarh and covers the entire Union Territory. Kirron Kher, the sitting MP of Chandigarh, is looking for re-election against four-time MP and former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.
Chandigarh Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Live updates
BJP's Kirron Kher thrashes Congress' Pawan Kumar Bansal by a margin of 46970 votes
04:28 pm - Kirron Kher maintains lead and is ahead with 105140 votes
12:40 pm - Kirron Kher currently leading with a vote margin of 47.64%
10:30 am - Kirron Kher maintains lead in Chandigarh against Congress' Pawan Kumar Bansal
9:00 am - BJP candidate and actor-turned-politician Kirron Kher takes early leads against Pawan Kumar Bansal
The constituency went to polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 19.
Election result 2019
Constituency profile
Bansal won from Chandigarh in 1991, 1999, 2004 and 2009. He had twice defeated senior lawyer and BJP leader Satya Pal Jain in 1991, 2004 and 2009. He held various ministerial portfolios in two UPA terms under the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He was at the centre of a controversy in May 2013 after his nephew was arrested for allegedly taking cash for a post in the Ministry of Railways, a department Bansal was holding at the time.
His nephew Vijay Singla was allegedly caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 89,68,000. The cash was allegedly seized by the CBI from the office of Singla n a bribery and corruption case related to appointments at top positions in the railways.
Bansal was later asked by the Congress party to resign even though the CBI, which was investigating the matter, failed to find any evidence linking him to the scandal. He was renominated by the party to contest from Chandigarh against BJP's Kirron Kher and AAP's Gul Panag.
Kher, in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, had won from Chandigarh seat by defeating Bansal with a margin of 69,642 votes. While Kher won the election by securing 1.91 lakh votes, Bansal and Panag received 1.21 lakh and 1.08 lakh votes respectively.
This election, the BJP has renominated Kirron Kher from Chandigarh despite opposition from local party unit. Harmohan Dhawan, who won the seat in 1989 on a Janata Dal, is AAP candidate. Polling to Chandigarh parliamentary constituency will take place on May 19.
