Ludhiana | AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora was leading with a margin of 2,286 votes against his nearest rival and Congress nominee Bharat Bhushan Ashu from the Ludhiana West assembly seat in Punjab on Monday, according to the Election Commission website.
After six of the 14 rounds of counting, Arora had polled 14,486 votes and Ashu 12,200 votes.
Though Arora maintained the overall lead, Ashu led the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds of counting.
BJP's Jiwan Gupta returned to the third spot with 10,703 votes after briefly taking over Ashu. Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Parupkar Singh Ghuman was fourth with 3,283 votes.
There were 14 candidates in the fray.
AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora
The counting of votes for the June 19 bypoll began at 8 am at a centre set up at Khalsa College for Women here.
The bypoll was necessitated following the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January.
A voter turnout of 51.33 per cent was recorded in the bypoll, a sharp drop from the 64 per cent voting registered in the 2022 state polls.
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