assam Lok Sabha Elections 2024

If you have been following this blog, you kept yourself best-updated on the live results for the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency of Assam. BJP candidate Devasish Sharma has registered a victory by a margin of around 1.4 lakh over AIUDF's Badruddin Ajmal. The Congress, which fought to retain the Muslim-majority seat, was a distant third. The by-election was necessitated as Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi resigned and switched over to the BJP. Voting was held for the Nagaon seat on October 6, and the turnaround was about 76%. Just ahead of the counting, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said BJP might not win Nagaon seat, but Congress would be reduced to third spot. He would be happy he was proven wrong on the first, and right on the second. Shounak Sanyal and Sushim Mukul brought to you the updates throughout the day.

The BJP is all set to win the Nagaon Lok Sabha by-election by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes, with the Congress languishing in the third spot. Raijor Dal leader and former Congress ally, Akhil Gogoi, called the party's defeat in a constituency with over 55% Muslim voters a tragedy for all anti-BJP forces.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma turned the contest for the Jorhat Lok Sabha seat into a prestige fight. After Congress candidate Gaurav Gogoi won the seat with a 1.4-lakh margin, Sarma is facing an unusual rebuke from within the BJP, exposing the old-vs-new friction in the Assam unit.

The fight for Assam's Jorhat, a prestige seat, could see Congress candidate Gaurav Gogoi losing to the BJP candidate, according to the Axis My India exit poll. The BJP fielded sitting MP, Topon Kumar Gogoi, who won the seat in 2019 by a margin of 82,000 votes.

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections saw a surprising outreach towards Muslims by Himanta Biswa Sarma. Several analysts credit the BJP’s gain in vote share to the multiple welfare schemes that benefitted even Muslims.