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Pilibhit Election Results 2024: Jitin Prasada, the Uttar Pradesh PWD minister who had switched from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) three years ago, has won the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat by a significant margin.
Prasada secured 6,07,158 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Bhagwat Saran Gangawar of the Samajwadi Party (SP), who got 4,42,223 votes. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate, Anis Ahmed Khan, managed to secure only 89,697 votes.
Winning with a significant margin of 1,64,935 votes from SP and 5,17,461 votes from BSP, Prasada secured 6,07,158 votes against Gangawar who got 4,42,223 votes and Phool Babu who got only 89,697 votes.
The Pilibhit constituency in Uttar Pradesh voted in Phase 1 on the 19th of April where BJP’s Prasada, the SP’s Bhagwat Saran Gangwar, and Anis Ahmed Khan from the BSP were in the political fray.
The BJP fielded Jitin Prasada, PWD minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, as its candidate from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which comes as a surprise, as the constituency has been a stronghold of the Gandhi family, with Maneka Gandhi or her son Varun Gandhi
The constituency has been historically dominated by the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in its early years, but the political preferences shifted towards the Indian National Congress (INC), with Menaka Gandhi keeping this seat under her influence.
However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Pilibhit witnessed a shift towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with Varun Gandhi, Maneka Gandhi’s son, winning the seat.
