Harpreet Kaur Babla, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, won the Chandigarh mayoral election on Thursday with 19 votes in the 36-member House.
Aam Aadmi Party candidate Prem Lata was backed by Congress and secured 17 votes. According to the presiding poll officer, all 36 votes were polled.
Former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Jaishree Thakur supervised the election and was appointed by the Supreme Court as an independent observer.
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