BJP Retains Arunachal Pradesh, Secures 46 Seats; Congress Reduced To 1
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained Arunachal Pradesh for the second consecutive term, with the party emerging victorious 46 seats in the 60-member assembly. With this majority, the party has surpassed the number of seats it received in the 2019 assembly elections.
Notably, candidates from a total of ten seats had already been elected unopposed, including the chief minister Pema Khandu, who has won three of his four terms as MLA without a contest. The polling took place in the rest 50 seats on April 19, aligning with the first phase of Lok Sabha elections.
The counting, which started at 6 am today, has been concluded. The National People’s Party (NPEP) has emerged as the runner-up, securing five seats. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has won three seats while the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) won two. Notably, independent candidates have won three seats.
The Congress, which had won four seats in the last assembly elections has lost three of its sitting constituencies. The grand old party won one seat out of the total 19 it contested from the state.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, the saffron party secured 41 seats in the state while the Janata Dal (United) bagged seven, the National People’s Party (NPP) five, Congress four, and the Peoples Party of Arunachal (PPA) one. Two independents also won in the Assembly polls.
Apart from Arunachal Pradesh, assembly election results for the state of Sikkim also outed today, and the incumbent Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang’s Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) has swept the state assembly election 2024 with a landslide majority.
The key competition in Sikkim was between the ruling SKM and Pawan Kumar Chamling’s SDF. The BJP and Congress also fielded candidates for the elections in the northeastern state.
However, the incumbent SKM won an impressive 30 seats out of the total 31, while the SDF has won only one seat so far. In 2019, the SKM, led by Prem Singh Tamang, won 17 seats, while SDF secured 15 seats.
