Priyanka Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi
Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra broke the record of her brother Rahul Gandhi in the by-election held on Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala. He won this seat by a huge margin. Priyanka Gandhi defeated her nearest rival by a margin of 4,10,931 votes. He defeated CPI candidate Satyan Mokeri. This was Priyanka Gandhi’s first election, where she got 622338 votes in this by-election. While Satyan Mokri got 211407 votes. Whereas, BJP’s Navya Haridas stood at the third position. Who got 1 lakh 9 thousand 939 votes. It is known that this seat had become vacant due to the resignation of Congress leader and Priyanka’s brother Rahul Gandhi. Then Rahul had decided to remain MP from Amethi.
Rahul’s victory margin in 2024 also crossed
In the last Lok Sabha elections 2024, Rahul Gandhi got 6,47,445 votes in Wayanad. He defeated senior CPI leader Annie Raja by a margin of 3,64,422 votes. At that time Annie Raja had got 2,83,023 votes. Whereas BJP’s K Surendran could get only 1,41,045 votes. In 2024, Rahul Gandhi got 59.69% votes. But, in this by-election Priyanka Gandhi Vadra got about 65% votes. Because of this, Priyanka also defeated her brother Rahul Gandhi in this matter. This means that Priyanka Gandhi has won this by-election by a bigger margin than the margin by which Rahul Gandhi had won in 2024.
Rahul Gandhi got a big victory in 2019
In this by-election, everyone’s eyes were on whether Priyanka Gandhi would be able to repeat a big victory like her brother Rahul Gandhi. Let us tell you that in the year 2019, Rahul Gandhi got 7,06,367 votes from Wayanad seat. He defeated CPI’s PP Sunir by 431770 votes. PP Sunir got 2,74,597 votes in that election. Although Priyanka Gandhi got less votes this time compared to Rahul Gandhi’s votes in 2019, it is a big thing to achieve such a big victory in the first election of one’s career.
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