Lok Sabha election results 2019: BJP bags nine of 14 seats in Assam

gold in Dibrugarh, with its sitting MP Rameshwar Teli defeating former Congress Union Minister Paban Singh Ghatowar
The BJP has surpassed its 2014 tally in Assam, securing nine of the 14 Lok Sabha seats, even as its allies, the AGP and the BPF, drew a blank in the state.
The Congress has been able to bag three parliamentary constituencies and the AIUDF and an Independent one each, the results made available by the Election Commission show.
In the 2014 elections, the saffron party had won from seven seats, while the Congress and AIUDF bagged three each and an Independent secured one.
Despite widespread opposition against the BJP for pushing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the run-up to the three-phase polls, the party has been able to retain Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Gauhati, Lakhimpur, Mangaldoi and Tezpur, besides bagging Autonomous District (ST), Silchar and Karimganj.
It, however, lost to Congress one of the key constituencies, Nowgong, which Union minister Rajen Gohain had represented for four consecutive terms.
The BJP had fielded Rupak Sharma from the seat this time, replacing Gohain, who failed to wrest the seat from former minister and Congress nominee Pradyut Bordoloi.
In Lakhimpur, sitting BJP MP Pradan Barua defeated Congress nominee Anil Borgohain by a whopping 3,50,551 votes.
The BJP also sprung a surprise in Autonomous District (ST) as its nominee Horen Sing Bey defeated three- time Congress MP Biren Singh Engti by 2,39,626 votes.

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