New Delhi: The results of all the bypolls held in 29 assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats are in. The Trinamool Congress swept all four assembly seats in West Bengal with Udayan Guha winning the Dinhata seat, previously held by the BJP, by a margin of 1,63,005 votes.
Meanwhile, the Congress party swept the Himachal and Rajasthan bypolls. The party wrested the Mandi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP and won all three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh. In Rajasthan, the party won both the Dhariawad and Vallabhnagar assembly constituencies with margins of 18,725 and 20,606 votes, respectively. It also reclaimed Madhya Pradesh’s Raigaon, a traditional BJP seat, after 31 years, besides bagging one seat each in Karnataka and Maharashtra.
However, it lost Jobat, a reserved ST seat, and the Prithvipur assembly seat in MP to the BJP, which also retained its Khandwa Lok Sabha seat. The BJP-led alliance claimed victory in all five assembly seats in Assam. The saffron party also wrested Telangana’s Huzurabad from the ruling TRS, while securing a win in Karnataka’s Sindagi.
In Haryana’s Ellenabad, INLD’s Abhay Chautala bagged a win over BJP-JJP candidate in the backdrop of the ongoing farmers’ agitation. In Bihar, the ruling JD(U) retained both the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur assembly seats. The Shiv Sena party secured the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha seat, with MP Sanjay Raut calling it a “giant leap towards Delhi.” Meanwhile, the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance clinched all three assembly seats, wresting Rajabala and Mawryngkneng seats from the Congress.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has retained its Lok Sabha seat in Khandwa, the PTI reported. With this, the BJP has won in three of the four seats in Madhya Pradesh. It won Prithvipur with a margin of 15,678 votes and Jobat with 6,104.
Meanwhile, Congress won in Raigaon, a traditional BJP seat, after 31 years.
The ruling Janata Dal (United) has won both the assembly seats in Bihar. JD(U)’s Aman Bhushan Hajari won Kusheshwar Asthan over RJD’s Ganesh Bharti by a margin of 12,695.
In Tarapur, Rajeev Kumar Singh won over RJD’s Arun Kumar by a margin of 3,852 votes.
The three parliamentary seats that went to polls were the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu, Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
By winning in Dadra & Nagar Haveli, the Shiv Sena has secured its first Lok Sabha seat outside its home turf Maharashtra.
The YSRCP won Andhra Pradesh’s Badvel (SC) by a handsome margin, while Janata Dal (United) bagged Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur Assembly seats in Bihar.
By-polls were also held in Gossaigaon, Bhabanipur, Tamulpur, Mariani and Thowra constituencies of Assam. The ruling BJP secured three Assembly seats while its ally UPPL won two seats.
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