North Goa Election 2019: Will BJP's Shripad Naik retain his seat the fifth time?

The North Goa Lok Sabha constituency, formerly known as the Panaji constituency, went to polls in the third phase of the 2019 general elections which were held on April 23. Shripad Yesso Naik, the sitting Member of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who is seeking a fifth consecutive term, contested against Girish Raya Chodankar of the Congress party. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made the North Goa Lok Sabha elections a triangular contest by nominating Dattatraya Padgaonkar. The voter turnout recorded was XYZ.
In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Shripad Yesso Naik defeated Jitendra Raghuraj Deshprabhu of the Nationalist Congress Party. In 2014, he won the North Goa constituency by defeating Ravi Naik of the Congress with a vote margin of 1,05,599. He was then appointed the Union minister of the state of Ministry of Ayush.
The Shiv Sena, which earlier announced to contest from the two constituencies of Goa, contested only for the South Goa seat.

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