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In a tweet, the prime minister had on Thursday night congratulated the AAP. "I would like to congratulate AAP for their victory in the Punjab elections. I assure all possible support from the Centre for Punjab's welfare.@AamAadmiParty," Modi had ...

"I would like to congratulate AAP for their victory in the Punjab elections. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he congratulated the Aam Aadmi Party for its victory in the Punjab Assembly elections. Thank you sir: Kejriwal after Modi congratulates AAP for its victory in Punjab

Punjab voters catapulted the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to an enormous win, reposing faith in the party's pitch of 'badlav' (change) helmed by its CM-pick.

The AAP hit out at the traditional parties for "looting" the state and sought "Ik Mauka" (one chance) to resurrect Punjab. Nevertheless, the sweep was mostly silent, and many political observers were apprehensive of a fractured mandate, even when exit polls tipped AAP as the clear winner. The landslide victory has, meanwhile, revived the national aspirations of Kejriwal, besides avenging AAP's loss to the Congress in the last Punjab assembly elections. The sentiment for 'change' and AAP's promise to provide quality health and educational services on the lines of Delhi also overrode politics of caste, regionalism and Deras - factors the rival parties were banking upon. In a major embarrassment to the party, the defeat margin of 50% of the cabinet ministers was substantially higher than their victor margins recorded in the 2017 assembly elections. The strength of the House was 154 between 1957 and 1962, which came down to 104 members between 1969 and 1972 and 117 members since 1977.

The Panthic Malwa belt comprising 69 seats, known to elect the government in Punjab with whosoever gets the maximum here — lived up to its expectations.

We will continue to serve people of the state with humility in the role they have assigned to us. People of the state believed in it and accepted us with open arms. As a result, the AAP had to eventually content with 18 seats from the region. The party’s successful projects in Delhi in the areas of education, health, power, etc., appealed to the electorate of a state reeling under a governance deficit. While AAP’s Bhagwant Mann won from Dhuri, Congress’ Charanjit Singh Channi in the fray from his second seat of Bhadaur lost to AAP and Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) Sukhbir Badal from Jalalabad biting the dust too. Its support could not turn the prospects of leaders of traditional parties, and majority of them lost by a huge margin.

Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday thanked the people of Punjab after trends indicated a landslide win for his ...

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In terms of vote share, AAP's victory in the state is not that unprecedented. The Congress won 45% and 44% of total votes in 1980 and 1992.

In Doaba, which accounts for the least 23 seats, the party has won fewer share of seats than in the other two regions and registered the least proportional increase in vote share. It has won over 90% of the seats in this sub-region, and could have won the state election even if it had not won any seat in the other two sub-regions. In the 2022 election, the strike rate of the Congress and the SAD are closer, while the BJP has fallen further behind. In terms of vote share, AAP’s victory in the state is not that unprecedented. - In terms of vote share, AAP’s victory in the state is not that unprecedented. Since the alliances formed in this election were new, it is useful to compare strike rates – share of contested seats won -- of parties rather than seat shares.

Out of the 15 panthic seats in Majha, the 10 that went to AAP are -- Sri Hargobindpur, Attari, Amritsar South, Jandiala, Baba Bakala, Ajnala, Tarn Taran, ...

Congress won Raja Sansi and SAD retained Majitha. Remaining 9 seats in Amritsar district went to AAP. Amid the rout, SAD managed to save Majitha as party leader Bikram Majitha’s wife, Ganieve Kaur, won with 26,156 votes. While his rebellion might have hurt Congress, it failed to benefit SAD as party lost on all 9 Sssembly constituencies represented by Dimpa in Parliament. While state BJP president Ashwani Sharma won from Pathankot city, Bhoa — another BJP stronghold — in Pathankot district went to AAP as party candidate Lal Chand won by a narrow margin. Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa managed to retain his seat Dera Baba Nanak by narrow margin of 466 votes. In Gurdaspur, while AAP won semi-urban Batala and reserved rural seat Sir Hargobindpur, the other four seats in the district went to Congress.