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BJP’s Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai has won from Dadra and Nagar Haveli by winning 1,21,074 votes. She beat Ajit Ramjibhai Mahala by a vote margin of 57,584.
In an upset to three-time BJP MP Lalubhai Babubhai Patel from the Daman and Diu constituency, Independent candidate Umeshbhai Babubhai Patel has sprung a suprprise by winning the seat with a margin of 6,225 votes.
Umeshbhai got 42,523 votes, while Lalubhai got 36,298 votes.
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Polling in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu took place in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, on May 7. The voter turnout from the total 4,09,127 electors in the UT was 71.31%.
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In the Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency, Kalaben Delkar, the sitting MP, contested on a BJP ticket. She had previously won the seat on a Shiv Sena ticket during a bypoll in 2021 and became the only Shiv Sena MP with a seat outside Maharashtra. She left Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) in 2024 and joined the BJP. She was up against INC’s Ajit Ramjibhai Mahla.
In the Daman and Diu constituency, the BJP had fielded another sitting MP Lalubhai Patel. Lalubhai Patel has been representing the constituency in Lok Sabha since 2009 and was contesting for a fourth term against INC’s Ketan Dahyabhai Patel.
While the Daman and Diu constituency is a BJP bastion since 2009, the Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency saw a shift when Independent candidate Mohan Sanjibhai Delkar won after a decade of the BJP’s power. However, after his death in 2021, a bypoll gave the seat to Kalaben Delkar, who has now joined the BJP. By fielding both of the sitting MPs, the BJP had looked to continue its long history with the UT.
