The Congress on Thursday won the Ramgarh Assembly seat in Rajasthan with a margin of 12,228 votes. With this, Congress's tally has increased to 100 in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly.
Zubair got 44.77 per cent votes by securing 83,311 votes while Singh secured 71,083 votes, the officials of the Rajasthan election department said. BSP candidate and former union minister Natwar Singh's Son, Jagat Singh, was third. He secured 24,856 votes.
As many as 20 candidates contested the Ramgarh election on January 28 after the election to the assembly seat could not be held along with other constituencies due to the death of the BSP candidate ahead of December 7 Rajasthan elections.
(With agency inputs)
First Published:Jan 31, 2019 12:00 PM IST