Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Besides the Jharkhand and Maharashtra Assembly polls and the Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll, counting to 47 bypolls across 14 states took place on Saturday.
The Trinamul won six out of six seats in Bengal. In Kerala, the Congress won Palakkad and the Left Democratic Front won Chelakkara. In another key state of Karnataka, the Congress won all three seats (Sandur, Channapatna and Shiggaon) that were up for grabs and BJP won the single seat (Raipur City South) in Chhattisgarh.
In total, the BJP-led NDA has won about 25 of these 47 bypolls with the BJP winning 20; the INDIA alliance won about 18 seats with the Congress winning 7, the Trinamul 6, Aam Admi Party (AAP) 3 and the Samajwadi Party 2.
Uttar Pradesh Bypolls Update
The BJP and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal were leading in seven of the nine Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats where bypolls were held earlier this week. The Samajwadi Party was ahead in the remaining two, according to the EC trends.
The BJP was leading in Kundarki, Khair, Ghaziabad, Phulpur, Katehari and Majhawan seats, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in Meerapur and the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Karhal and Sisamau.
In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the BJP had won Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan and Khair seats and the SP secured Sisamau, Katehari, Karhal and Kundarki. For the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), this trend is a gain of two seats as against the Assembly polls two years ago.
The RLD, which was an SP ally then, had won the Meerapur seat. The party has since switched sides and is now part of the BJP-led NDA.
The Congress did not contest the bypolls and extended support to the SP, its INDIA bloc ally.
Rajasthan Bypolls Update
In the seven Assembly seats that went to bypolls in Rajasthan, the BJP won five.
BJP’s Shanta Amrit Lal Meena won assembly bypolls on Salumbar seat in Rajasthan with a narrow margin of 1,285 votes. The party also won in Jhunjhunu, Ramgarh, Khinswar and Deoli-Uniara.
Bharat Adivasi Party candidate Anil Kumar Katara won the bypoll and retained the Chorasi assembly seat in Rajasthan by a margin of 24,370 votes.
Congress was ahead only in one seat with its candidate from Dausa, Deen Dayal was leading against his nearest rival and BJP nominee Jag Mohan by a margin of 2,300 votes.
For the BJP it is a considerable improvement from the Assembly polls of 2023 when BJP had won just the Salumbar seat. The Congress, which had won four seats in 2023, was ahead only in one seat in these bypolls.
Assam Bypolls Update
Five seats in Assam went for bypolls and the NDA was all set to win all of these seats.
The BJP retained the Behali, Dohai and Samaguri seats, while its allies United Peoples' Party Liberal (UPPL) candidate won the Sidli seat and Asom Gana Parishad won the Bongaigaon seat.
The Congress had won the Samaguri seat in the 2021 Assembly polls.
"We bow in gratitude to the people of Assam. The NDA's 5/5 victory in the current by-elections is a resounding testament to Assam's unwavering support for Adarniya @narendramodi Ji’s vision of good governance and development", Himanta Sarma posted on X.
Bihar Bypolls Update
Bihar was a clean sweep for the NDA with the alliance winning all the four bypolls up for grabs. The NDA retained Imamganj and wrestled from the INDIA bloc Tarari (from CPIML), Ramgarh and Belaganj (from RJD), receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
NDA ally JD(U)'s nominee Manorama Devi won the Belaganj assembly seat in Bihar bypolls, while Hindustan Awami Morcha won the Imamganj seat. The BJP has won the Tarari and Ramgarh seat.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
Uttrakhand Bypolls Update
The BJP on Saturday retained the Kedarnath assembly seat in Uttarakhand, with its candidate and state Mahila Morcha president Asha Nautiyal defeating Congress' Manoj Rawat by 5,622 votes.
While Nautiyal polled 13,696 votes, Rawat got 10,633, according to the EC.
Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said this is a "huge victory" for the BJP and the triumph of the development work carried out in Kedarnath under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"It is a victory of development, our policies and Sanatan. It is also a slap on the faces of those who spread all sorts of lies against the state government in the run-up to the bypoll," he said without naming anyone.
Punjab Bypolls Update
Four seats went to the bypoll in Punjab, of which AAP won three and the Congress won one. The AAP won the Dera Baba Nanak, Chhabewal and Gidderbaha Assembly seat and the Congress won the Barnala seat.
The BJP came third in all these seats.
Madhya Pradesh Bypolls Update
The Congress retained Madhya Pradesh’s Vijaypur Assembly seat by a 7,364 margin, while the BJP retained Budhni constituency by 13,901 votes. In 2023, Union minister of rural development and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh had won the Budhni seat. The bypoll was necessitated after Chouhan contested and won the Lok Sabha.
But BJP candidate and state’s forest minister Ramniwas Rawat lost in the Vijaypur assembly seat.
Gujarat Bypolls Update
BJP candidate Swarupji Thakor on Saturday won the Vav assembly by-election in Gujarat by defeating Congress candidate Gulabsinh Rajput by amargin of 2,353 votes.
According to the EC, Thakor got 91,755 votes while Rajput got 89,402 votes.
The bypoll was necessitated following the resignation of Congress MLA Geniben Thakor, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Banaskantha in June. Thakor had won this Assembly seat in 2022 from the Congress.
Sikkim Bypolls Update
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) candidates Aditya Golay and Satish Chandra Rai were on Saturday elected unopposed in the bypolls to Soreng-Chakung and Namchi-Singhithang assembly constituencies.
