Pushkar Singh Dhami wins Champawat bypoll with record margin
India Today
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami won the Champawat bypoll by over 55,000 votes on Friday.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday won the by-poll to the Champawat assembly seat defeating Congress' Nirmala Gahtori by a record margin of over 55,000 votes to retain his office.
The bypoll to the Champawat assembly seat was held on May 31, with over 64 per cent of the electorate casting their votes.
Dhami garnered 58,258 votes against Gahtori's 3,233 votes, winning by a record margin of 55,025 votes, election officials in Champawat said.
Gahtori lost her deposit, they said.
Though chief ministers of Uttarakhand who contested by-polls never lost , this is the highest margin with which a CM has won a bypoll in the hill state.
Dhami has rewritten the record of Vijay Bahuguna who had won a bypoll from Sitarganj on a Congress ticket in 2012 by 40,000 votes.
Celebrations began at the BJP state office as Dhami appeared headed for a one-sided victory, taking a substantial lead in the very first rounds of counting of votes.
