Chandni Chowk Election Result 2024: BJP’s Praveen Khandelwal wins

Praveen Khandelwal, BJP candidate from Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency, during an election campaign

BJP candidate Praveen Khandelwal has won the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 89,325 votes against his nearest rival Jai Prakash Agarwal from Congress.

Here are the latest trends from the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha contest:

Trends at 4pm: Praveen Khandelwal has whizzed past his nearest rival Jai Prakash Agarwal and is now leading with a commanding margin.

Trends at 3pm: BJP's Praveen Khandelwal has gone past Jai Prakash Agarwal and is ahead.

Trends at 2 pm: Praveen Khandelwal is maintaining a strong lead over his Congress rival.

Trends at 1 pm: As per the latest trends, Praveen Khandelwal is leading over Congress's Jai Prakash Agarwal.

Trends at 12 pm: Praveen Khandelwal has again whizzed past his nearest rival Jai Prakash Agarwal and is now leading with a commanding margin.

Trends at 11 am: Congress's Jai Prakash Agarwal has gone past Praveen Khandelwal and is ahead by a narrow margin.

Trends at 10 am: Jai Prakash Agarwal is maintaining a strong lead over his BJP rival.

Trends at 9 am: As per the latest trends, Praveen Khandelwal is leading over Congress' Jai Prakash Agarwal.

Khandelwal is contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the first time. He belongs to the trader community and is the Secretary General of Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).

The constituency was represented by former health minister Harsh Vardhan from BJP in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

About Chandni Chowk 

The voter turnout in this Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 has been lower at 58.60 percent as compared to 62.78 percent in 2019. The voter turnout in Chandni Chowk in 2014 was 67.84 percent in 2014 and 55.21 percent in 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In absolute numbers, also the voter turnout fell in 2024 at 9,64,503 voters as compared to 9,80,814 voters in 2019. The number of registered voters in the constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections stands at 16,45,958.

In 2019, BJP won the Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat with its candidate Harsh Vardhan defeating Congress candidate Jai Prakash Agarwal and AAP’s Pankaj Kumar Gupta.

Chandni Chowk constituency is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in National Capital Territory of Delhi.

The Lok Sabha constituency has ten Assembly segments under it – Adarsh Nagar, Shalimar Bagh, Shakur Basti, Tri Nagar, Wazirpur, Model Town, Sadar Bazar, Chandni Chowk, Matia Mahal and Ballimaran.

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Harsh Vardhan won with a huge margin with 52.94 percent votes in 2019 while Jai Prakash Agarwal from Congress and AAP’s Pankaj Kumar Gupta got 29.67 percent and 14.74 percent votes respectively.

In 2014, BJP’s Harsh Vardhan defeated Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Ashutosh and Congress’ Kapil Sibal with 44.60 percent votes. While AAP got 30.72 percent votes, Congress received 17.95 percent votes in 2014. In 2009, Congress’ Sibal won from the constituency with 59.67 percent votes.

The Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency came into existence in 1957.

(This story will be updated with the latest trends as they come in).