Barmer Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: Congress Candidate Ummeda Ram Beniwal Secures Victory

Barmer Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Barmer Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan has witnessed a competitive three-way contest in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, primarily involving the BJP, Congress, and independent candidate Ravindra Singh Bhati. Kailash Choudhary of the BJP, who won the seat in 2019 with 846,526 votes, was contesting again. He defeated Congress's Manvendra Singh by a margin of 323,808 votes in the previous election, which saw 14,22,271 valid votes out of 1,941,231 electors. This year, congress leader Ummed Ram Beniwal defeated independent candidate ravindra singh bhati and bjp's kailash chaudhary by a big margin. Ummed Ram Beniwal has secured 699122 votes after 10 hours of counting and is leading by 117257.

12: 34 PM: Ummeda Ram Beniwal of the Indian National Congress (INC) leading from the Barmer seat securing 295514 votes. Ravindra Singh Bhati is trailing by 27749 votes securing 267765.

10: 34 AM: Vote counting has begun in Barmer, Rajasthan. Early trends show Ummeda Ram Beniwal of the Indian National Con gress (INC) leading from the Barmer seat, with Independent candidate Tararam Mehna in second place.

9:55 AM: According to official ECI trend, Ummeda Ram Beniwal from Indian National Congress has got 58947 votes in Barmer and is leading by 18611 votes.

8: 54 AM : According to the early trends independent candidate Ravindra Singh Bhati is leading in Barmer whereas the other Independent candidate Tararam Mehna in second place in the vote count.

Historical Voting Patterns

In 2014, the constituency had 1,680,152 electors, with 1,219,119 valid votes. BJP's Col Sona Ram won with 488,747 votes, defeating independent candidate Jaswant Singh by 87,461 votes.

 Barmer Lok Sabha, one of Rajasthan's 25 parliamentary constituencies, is open to all categories and includes Barmer and part of Jaisalmer.

Key Candidates 

For the 2024 elections, BJP's incumbent Kailash Choudhary is fighting for the Barmer Seat. Congress has fielded Ummeda Ram Beniwal, while Ravindra Singh Bhati, an independent candidate and the MLA from Sheo, is gaining significant attention. Bhati, a Rajput, has a strong appeal across communities and age groups, having won the Sheo Assembly seat as an Independent.

The Barmer-Jaisalmer constituency has around 20 lakh electors, with Jats constituting 19% and Rajputs 12%.