Wayanad Kerala Chunav Result, (Wayanad by-election result 2024) By Election Results Today LIVE Updates: Counting of votes is going on for the by-election of Wayanad seat of Kerala. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi is the candidate for this seat. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi won this seat. He contested from two places, Wayanad and Rae Bareli, and won both the seats. Rahul kept the Rae Bareli seat with himself and left Wayanad. The special thing is that this is Priyanka Gandhi's first election. On this seat, UDF candidate Priyanka Gandhi is pitted against LDF candidate Satyan Mokeri and NDA candidate Navya Haridas. A total of 16 candidates are in the fray for this seat.

- Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi is leading by more than 68 thousand votes in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. CPI candidate Satyan Mokeri is in second place and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Navya Haridas is in third place. Priyanka Gandhi has got 98794 votes so far.

-Priyanka Gandhi is leading by more than 45 thousand votes in the Wayanad seat

Around 65 percent voting took place on November 13

Around 65 percent voting took place in the by-election held on November 13 on the Wayanad seat. In this general election, Priyanka's brother Rahul Gandhi was the Congress candidate in Wayanad. During that time, 74 percent of people in the area had exercised their franchise. At the same time, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when Rahul contested from Wayanad for the first time, more than 80 percent voting was recorded there. Voting for the Lok Sabha by-election in Wayanad took place briskly in the morning and in the first eight hours, more than 50 percent of people exercised their franchise there.

Low voter turnout in Wayanad

The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) dismissed fears that low voter turnout in Wayanad would reduce Priyanka's victory margin.

Leader of Opposition in Kerala Assembly VD Satheeshan said that the low voter turnout in Wayanad was a result of a lack of enthusiasm among voters in areas dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Democratic Front (LDF). However, the LDF and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rejected the UDF's claim and said that the low polling percentage was a result of people not coming out to vote in areas dominated by the Congress and its allies.