The INDIA bloc has won 10 out of 13 Assembly seats across seven states in bypoll, giving a tough fight to the BJP-led NDA. The Bharatiya Janata Party has won two seats, one in Madhya Pradesh and one in Himachal Pradesh.
The Opposition bloc’s victory is in line with its strong performance during the Lok Sabha elections, where its biggest party, Congress, won big in Uttar Pradesh.
Apart from Congress, ally partners Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party contributed to the INDIA bloc’s win in the Assembly bypolls.
Key takeaways
In West Bengal, TMC made a clean sweep by winning all four seats it contested. Meanwhile, in Punjab, AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat made a decisive victory from Jalandhar West.
In Himachal Pradesh’s Dehra, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur made her poll debut and won the seat with 32, 737 votes.
The grand old party won four out of 13 seats, including the Badrinath assembly constituency in Uttarakhand.
In Tamil Nadu, another INDIA bloc partner, DMK, won the Vikravandi seat.
Meanwhile, the sole seat from Bihar, Rupauli, was won by independent candidate and former MLA Shankar Singh.
The polls were held in: Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.
The seats that went to poll were: Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal; Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh; Badrinath and Manglaur in Uttarakhand; Jalandhar West in Punjab; Rupauli in Bihar; Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu and Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh.
Three of these states are ruled by the BJP or NDA ally parties while the rest are governed by INDIA bloc parties.
How many votes did the winners get?
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