Congress’ Satpal Brahmachari wins Sonipat Lok Sabha seat by almost 22,000 votes

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Indian National Congress (INC) candidate Satpal Brahmachari won the Sonipat seat in the Lok Sabha elections by 21,816 votes. Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Mohan Lal Badoli secured the second-highest numbers of votes following Brahmachari in the Sonipat constituency.

According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), Brahmachari won 5,48,682 votes in Sonipat while Badoli got 5,26,866 votes.

The Sonipat constituency voted on May 25 in the sixth phase of the elections with a voter turnout of 63.44 percent. Voter turnout in 2024 was 7.59 percent lower than the previous Lok Sabha elections in Sonipat.

The constituency is Jat-community significant with 35 percent of the voter population comprising of the Jats while Brahmins form 13 percent of voters. Despite winning all the seats in Haryana in 2019, BJP faces challenge in the current elections due to dominant Jat community’s angst over farmers’ and wrestlers’ protest.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s Ramesh Chander Kaushik won the seat in Sonipat for the second consecutive time by securing over 52 percent votes while Bhupinder Singh Hooda of Congress followed with securing 37.43 percent votes.

Kuashik had won 35.19 percent votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections while Jagbir Singh Malik of Congress got 27.35 percent votes. In the 2024 elections, Kaushik was denied ticket amid controversy over a leaked video.

Haryana has a total of 10 constituencies including Ambala, Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Rohtak, Sirsa and Sonipat. Including Sonipat, BJP won all the 10 seats in Haryana in the 2019 polls.

(This story will be updated with the latest trends)