Congress looks set to win Shahkot assembly bypoll as its candidate Hardev Singh Laddi has taken a lead of 21,000 votes over his rivals.
He has secured lead of over 2400 votes in the 9th round.
The Congress candidate is continuing lead of roughly over 2000 votes at the end of all the nine rounds of counting of votes so far.
Given the uninterrupted trend of establishing lead in every round, the Congress victory looks imminent.
The counting of votes will be done in total 17 rounds.