On June 4, 2024, outgoing Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla won the Kota parliamentary seat by a significant margin.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla won the Kota parliamentary seat by a margin of more than 41,139 votes on June 4, thus becoming the first presiding officer in 20 years to be re-elected to the Lower House.
The last Lok Sabha speaker to get re-elected to the Lower House was P A Sangma, who was the presiding officer of the 11th Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998.