Assembly Bypoll Results: INDIA bloc parties on Saturday won 10 of 13 seats in assembly bypolls held across 7 states, while Bharatiya Janata Party clinched two seats.
The voting for bypolls in Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh took place on July 10 and results were declared today.
Out of 13 assembly seats, Congress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) won 4 seats each. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won two seats. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won one seat each. In Bihar, independent candidate Shankar Singh won the Rupauli seat, defeating a Janata Dal (U) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate.
Dehra seat: Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, won Dehra seat by over 9,000 votes.
Nalagarh seat: Congress candidate Hardeep Singh Bawa won the seat by nearly 9,000 votes, defeating BJP's K L Thakur.
Hamirpur seat: BJP's Ashish Sharma won the seat by over 1,500 votes, defeating Congress candidate Pushpinder Verma.
"The BJP candidates won by around 15,000 votes in all the three assembly constituencies during the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Later, the dates for bypolls for the three assembly constituencies were announced. I am glad that people have supported us," said Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.
Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) won all four seats.
Raiganj seat: TMC's Krishna Kalyani defeated BJP candidate Manas Kumar Ghosh by over 50,000 votes.
Ranaghat Dakshin seat: Mukut Mani Adhikari of TMC defeated BJP candidate Manoj Kumar Biswas by over 39,000 votes.
Bagda seat: TMC's Madhuparna Thakur defeated BJP's Binay Kumar Biswas by over 33,000 votes.
Maniktala seat: TMC candidate Supti Pandey defeated BJP's Kalyan Chaubey by over 62,000 votes.
The TMC has maintained its dominance following the recent parliamentary elections where it won 29 out of 42 seats in Bengal.
"Three out of four seats were of BJP which have now been won by TMC. This victory is the victory of the people and I thank them," said Mamata Banerjee.
Jalandhar West seat: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Mohinder Bhagat secured victory. He defeated BJP's Sheetal Angural by over 37,000 votes.
The seat was vacated after AAP legislator Sheetal Angural switched to the BJP.
Amarwara seat: BJP's Kamlesh Pratap Shah won the seat defeating Congress candidate Dheeran Sah Sukharam Das Invati by over 3,000 votes.
This seat became vacant when three-time Congress MLA Kamlesh Shah switched allegiance to the BJP in March.
Badrinath seat: Congress candidate Lakhapat Singh Butola won the seat defeating BJP's Rajendra Singh Bhandari by over 5,000 votes.
Manglaur seat: Congress candidate Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin defeated BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana by over 422 votes.
Rupauli seat: Independent candidate Shankar Singh won the seat by over 8,000 votes defeating JDU's Kaladhar Mandal and RJD's Bima Bharti.
The bypoll was triggered by the resignation of MLA Bima Bharti, who had previously won the seat for JD(U) but left the party to contest in the Lok Sabha elections on an RJD ticket.
Vikravandi seat: DMK candidate Anniyur Siva won the seat defeating Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) candiate Anbumani. C by over 67,000 votes.
The bypoll was necessitated by the demise of DMK legislator N Pughazhendhi.
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