Rajasthan Assembly Election Result 2018: BJP chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. Congress will select the state’s new leader today. Stay with us for LIVE updates on Rajasthan election result
Rajasthan Assembly Election result 2018 LIVE: Rajasthan kept its 25-year-old record of throwing out the incumbent government. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister Vasundhara Raje has resigned. The Congress will select the state’s new leader at a meeting of party lawmakers on Wednesday. Raje, despite the defeat of her government, won from her constituency of Jhalrapatan.
A party needs 101 seats in the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, but the election in one seat was rescheduled after a candidate died. The BJP had won 163 seats in the 2013 Rajasthan Assembly elections and secured a vote share of 46.03%, a jump of about eight percentage points over 2008. The Congress had bagged 21 seats with a vote share of 34.27%, a fall of two percentage points.
Rajasthan has a record of not returning any party to power since 1998 and it flip-flops between the BJP and Congress. The Congress was contesting on 195 seats and had given five seats to its allies — two each to the Loktantrik Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and one to the Nationalist Congress Party…Read Full Story
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