Assembly election results 2016: Highlights of key wins and losses
Highlights from the assembly election in results in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry
As counting of votes continues in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry, here are the key highlights so far:
•In Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is winning/leading in 86 seats out of 126, a sign its political influence is expanding beyond its traditional northern and western belt.
•In Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa has beaten all odds to steer the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) to a second consecutive term in power.
•West Bengal votes for Trinamool Congress again, with the Mamata Banerjee-led party winning/leading in 211 seats, dashing the hopes of the Left Front-Congress alliance.
•Left parties can take comfort from the Kerala results, where the Left Democratic Front is winning/leading in 91 seats.
•In Puducherry, the Congress/Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) coalition is ahead in 15 seats, followed by the All India N.R. Congress in 10 seats.
•Several BJP candidates have finished second in Kerala, including Sobha Surendran (Palakkad), C. Krishnakumar (Malampuzha), K Surendran (Manjeshwaram), Ravisha Thanthri Kuntar (Kasaragod), V. Muraleedharan (Kazhakkoottam), Kummanam Rajasekharan (Vattiyoorkavu), B.B. Gopakumar (Chathannoor).
•Kummanam Rajasekharan, president of BJP’s Kerala state unit, has lost from Vattiyoorkavu to the Congress’ K. Muraleedharan.
•In Kerala, K.M. Shaji (IUML) wins from Azhikode with a margin of 2287 votes
•V.S. Sivakumar of the Congress has won the Thiruvananthapuram assembly seat, with the BJP’s Sreesanth at thrid place.
•In West Bengal, Nayna Bandyopadhyay (TMC) has won from Chowrangee.
•Jayalalithaa leads in Dr.Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency with a margin of more than 15,000 votes over the DMK’s Shimla Muthuchozhan, according to the Election Commission’s website.
•In Attingal (Kerala), B. Satyan of the CPM wins, defeating the RSP’s K. Chandrababu by 40383 votes.
•In Kazhakkoottam (Kerala), K Surendran (CPM) has won by a margin of 7,347 votes. Nearest rival: V Muraleedharan of the BJP.
•In Pathanapuram (Kerala), where three Malayalam film actors were contesting against each other, K.B. Ganesh Kumar of the Kerala Congress (B), part of the LDF, has won, defeating the Congress’s Jagadish by more than 24,000 votes.
•West Bengal leader of opposition and CPM state secretary Surjyakanta Mishra is trailing against the TMC’s Prodyut Kumar Ghosh by more than 9,900 votes in Narayangarh constituency.
•Kerala: In Adoor, Chittayam Gopakumar of the CPI has won, defeating K.K. Shaju of the Congress. BJP 3rd place.
•In Assam, former Congress chief minister Tarun Gogoi is leading from the Titabar constituency by more than 17,000 votes.
•In Tamil Nadu’s Pennagaram constituency, the DMK’s Inbasekaran P.N.P. is leading against former Union minister Anbumani Ramadoss of the Pattali Makkal Katchi by more than 7,000 votes.
•In Kerala’s Malampuzha seat, former chief minister and LDF’s star campaigner V. S. Achuthanandan has defeated the BJP’s C.Krishnakumar by 27,142 votes.
•In West Bengal’s Howrah North constituency, the TMC’s Laxmi Ratan Shukla has won with 61,917 votes, with the Congress’ Santosh Kumar Pathak in second place, followed by the BJP’s Roopa Ganguly.
•In Kerala’s Alappuzha constituency, the CPM’s Thomas Isaac, former state finance minister, has defeated the Congress’ Laly Vincent by 31,032 votes.
•In Dharmadam in Kerala, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has defeated the Congress’s Mambaram Divakaran by 36,905 votes.
•In Nemom in Kerala, the BJP’s O. Rajagopal maintains a lead of more than 8,600 votes over the CPM’s V.Sivankutty.
•In Assam, the AIUDF’s Hafiz Bashir Ahmed has won from Bilasipara West.
•A win is a win, a loss is a loss, you can’t define it in a democracy, says Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy to ANI.
•In Kerala’s Sultan Bathery constituency, the Congress’s I.C. Balakrishnan has won with 75,747 votes, defeating the CPM’s Rugmini Subrahmanian (64,549 votes) and tribal leader C.K. Janu (27,920 votes) who had contested an independent candidate with the BJP’s backing.
•West Bengal: Manas Majumdar of the TMC has won from Goghat.
•West Bengal: Swarna Kamal Saha of the TMC wins from Entally.
•In Kerala’s Pattambi, JNU student Muhammed Muhassin from the CPI is ahead of the Congress’s C.P. Mohammed by more than 7,000 votes.
•Kerala Congress leader K.M. Mani, who was forced to resign as state finance minister after the bar bribery scam that shook the UDF government, won from Pala with a narrow margin of 4,703 votes. Giving him a strong fight was Mani C. Kappen of the Nationalist Congress Party.
•The TMC’s Bhaichung Bhutia, former captain of the Indian football team, lost to the CPI(M)’s Asok Bhattacharya by 13,708 votes in the Silguri constituency.
•Tamil Nadu: In Sankari, S. Raja of the AIDMK wins, defeating R.K. Rajeswaran of the Congress. Margin: 37374 votes.
•Tamil Nadu: Jayanthi Padmanabhan of the AIADMK wins from Gudiyattam.
•DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi is set to be re-elected from Thiruvarur with a whopping margin of 68,366 votes over AIADMK’s R. Pannerselvam.
•DMDK chief and chief ministerial candidate of the DMDK-PWF front Vijaykant, also a former film actor, is set to lose from Ulundurpettai in Tamil Nadu, where he is in third place after AIADMK’s Kumaraguru R. and DMK’s Vasanthavel G.R.
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