However, Meena won on his another seat of Lalsot. Siddhi Kumari of Bikaner royal family won against Congress candidate from Bikaner east assembly seat. Ex-minister Babulal Nagar's brother Hazarilal Nagar lost the elections from Dudu constituency. In a major jolt to Congress, the party won only one seat out of the 19 of Jaipur district. In the district, BJP won on 17 seats, NPP on one, and Congress had the lone win in form of Rajendra Singh Yadav from Kotputali seat.
In 2008 assembly polls Congress had won 7 seats, BJP 10 seats from Jaipur district. Two ministers Mahendra Jeet Singh Malviya, Brijendra Ola, son of union minister Seesram Ola, were elected from Bagidora and Jhunjhunu seat respectively.
Three Congress MLAs Mewaram Jain, Govind Singh, and Ramesh retained their seats at Barmer, Lachmangarh, and Sapotra respectively. The list of victorious BJP candidates includes party stalwart Gulab Chand Kataria from Udaipur, Ghanshyam Tiwari from Sanganer (Jaipur) and Narapat Singh Rajvi, on in law of former vice president B S Shekhawat from Vidhydhar Nagar.
Ex-minister in Gehlot government, Raj Kumar Sharma who was denied party ticket retained Navalagrh seat by defeating Congress candidate Pratibha Singh. BJP won six out of seven seats in Barmer, where the foundation for a nine-million tonne oil refinery-cum-petrochemical complex was recently laid. Two Congress ministers Hemaram Choudhary and Ameen Khan lost at Barmer district.
The Congress and BJP have fielded 200 candidates each, BSP 195, CPI-M 38, CPI 23, NCP 16, other parties 666 and Independents 758 (including churu assembly constituency). Out of 4.08 cr voters, 75.20 per cent exercised their franchise on December one.
