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PremiumBypoll Election Results 2024 Highlights: Ruling parties held sway in most of the 13 states in the assembly byelection results declared on Saturday, with the BJP and its allies wresting seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan and the Trinamool Congress sweeping West Bengal (WB).
Out of the 46 seats where byelections were held, the BJP and its allies won 26, a gain of nine seats, followed by Congress with seven -- a loss of six seats. The Trinamool Congress won six, the Aam Aadmi Party three and the Samajwadi Party two seats. The LDF in Kerala and BAP in Rajasthan got one each.
Apart from this, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) won two seats in Sikkim unopposed. In the by-polls to two Lok Sabha constituencies, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi cruised to her maiden electoral victory from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala with a margin of over 4.1 lakh votes against CPI(M)-led LDF's Sathyan Mokeri. The party also won Nanded in Maharashtra by a narrow margin after recounting the votes.
The assembly by-polls were held in nine seats in Uttar Pradesh, seven seats in Rajasthan, six seats in West Bengal, five seats in Assam, four seats each in Punjab and Bihar, three seats in Karnataka, two seats in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala, and one seat each in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya.
Bypolls for 15 assembly constituencies across Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, and Uttarakhand took place on Wednesday, November 20. Results are also awaited for Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, and Karnataka by-polls.
In Uttar Pradesh, elections were held in Katehari, Karhal, Meerapur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan, Sisamau, Khair, Phulpur, and Kundarki. Out of the nine constituencies, BJP is currently leading in five.
About 49.3 per cent voters cast their votes in bypolls to nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday with Ghaziabad logging just 33 per cent. The voter turnout in Ghaziabad was 33.3 per cent, Katehari (56.9 per cent), Khair (46.3 per cent), Kundarki (57.7 per cent), Karhal (54.1 per cent), Majhawan (50.41 per cent), Meerapur (57.1 per cent), Phulpur (43.43 per cent) and Shisamau (49.1 per cent).
In Punjab, four constituencies—Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak, Chabbewal (SC), and Barnala—went to the polls. The by-elections were prompted by the fact that the legislators representing these constituencies were elected to the Lok Sabha during the general elections earlier this year. Currently, AAP and Congress have won one seat each.
Besides Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, by-polls were also held for the Palakkad and Chelakkara seats in Kerala, Kedarnath in Uttarakhand, seven assembly seats in Rajasthan, six in West Bengal, five in Assam, four in Bihar and three in Karnataka.
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Yatindra Siddaramaiah, Congress MLC and son of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Saturday said that the people have "rejected BJP's hate politics" after the Congress won all three assemblies bypolls in the state.
Congress put up an impressive show in the bye-elections by winning all three seats of Sandur, Channapatna and Shiggaon, the results of which were declared on Saturday.
The polling for all three assembly seats was held on November 13.
"Congress has won all the three assembly constituencies after the results for bypolls were announced. This shows that the people are happy with the rule of the Congress in the state, especially with the guarantee schemes," Yatindra Siddaramaiah told ANI here.
"...Also they have rejected the BJP's hate politics. BJP has been trying to destabilise the government," he alleged.
Answering a query on the Maharashtra election results, the Congres leader said, "In Maharashtra, we had expectations that we could win(but we could not win), but our national leaders and Maharashtra leaders will look into it".
After the Congress party secured victory over all three seats in the Karnataka by-polls, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that this by-election has been crucial to him as the BJP and the JDS leaders made false allegations against him and his government to malign his image. He further said that the people of the state did not believe in the lies spread by the BJP and the JDS.
The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party needs to cover much ground.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, whose party has now lost the status of the single largest party in the assembly, made light of the debacle and claimed that the Mahagathbandhan, the INDIA bloc's Bihar prototype, was all set to win the 2025 assembly elections.
The biggest setback for the RJD came in Belaganj, a seat it had been winning since the 1990s, but lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by more than 21,000 votes RJD's Vishwanath Kumar Singh, who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj.
Ruling parties held sway in most of the 13 states in the assembly byelection results declared on Saturday, with the BJP and its allies wresting seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan and the Trinamool Congress sweeping West Bengal.
Out of the 46 seats where byelections were held, the BJP and its allies won 26, a gain of nine seats, followed by Congress with seven -- a loss of six seats.
The Trinamool Congress won six, the Aam Aadmi Party three and the Samajwadi Party two seats. The LDF in Kerala and BAP in Rajasthan got one each. Apart from this, two seats in Sikkim were won unopposed by Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) candidates.
In the bypolls to two Lok Sabha constituencies, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi cruised to her maiden electoral victory from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala with a margin of over 4.1 lakh votes against CPI(M)-led LDF's Sathyan Mokeri. The party also won Nanded in Maharashtra by a narrow margin after recounting of votes.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday extended his gratitude to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and workers for their efforts that led to the party's performance in the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections, as well as bypolls across 15 states.
The Mahayuti alliance, led by the BJP, is set to form the government in Maharashtra with a landslide victory, while the BJP also achieved the highest vote share in Jharkhand.
In a series of posts on X, Shah highlighted the hard work of BJP leaders and workers, celebrating the results as a testament to the people's faith in the double-engine government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shah lauded the Mahayuti alliance victory in Maharashtra, saying, "This victory of the Mahayuti alliance is a triumph of the 'Politics of Performance' of the double-engine government under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji."
"The people of Maharashtra have rejected the politics of appeasement and have once again placed their trust in the legacy, development, and welfare initiatives of the Mahayuti," he wrote on X.
He also thanked BJP leaders and workers in Maharashtra for their efforts and congratulated party leaders, including BJP national president JP Nadda, Maharashtra state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, CM Eknath Shinde, DyCM Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday termed his party's win in three out of four seats in the Punjab bypolls a "semi-final", asserting that the party is on course for another historic mandate in Delhi.
Kejriwal, a former chief minister of Delhi, said the people of Punjab have chosen the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the second time which shows that it is doing good work.
"Over the past decade, we have established the Delhi model of governance that focuses on making life easier for the common man," he said.
The AAP national convener also took to social media platform X and said, "The people of Punjab have once again expressed their faith in the ideology of the Aam Aadmi Party and the work of our government by giving us three out of four seats in the by-elections. A heartfelt thank you to the people of Punjab and many congratulations to everyone."
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, referring to the AAP's election symbol 'broom', said the party, which "used to clean homes and shops with a broom", was now cleaning "all of India" under Kejriwal's leadership.
Every promise made to the people of Punjab during the by-elections will be fulfilled on a priority basis, he added.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav downplayed his party's dismal performance in the bypolls to four assembly seats in Bihar, claiming that the Mahagathbandhan will form the next government in the state where elections are due in less than a year.
Talking to reporters here, Yadav, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in Bihar assembly, rejoiced at his party's better-than-expected performance in neighbouring Jharkhand where the JMM-led alliance has retained power.
In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat in Jharkhand. This time RJD won Deoghar, Godda, Bishrampur and Hussainabad seats in the state.
"Loss in a few seats is no big deal. We had gained leads in these assembly segments in the recent Lok Sabha elections. We will do better in the 2025 assembly elections and the Mahagathbandhan will form the next government in Bihar. Winning and losing is a part of elections...we are not disappointed at all...we fought the elections unitedly," said the RJD leader, making light of his party's failure to retain Belaganj and Ramgarh, besides its inability to wrest Imamganj.
The grand alliance under the leadership of Hemant Soren Ji won Jharkhand assembly polls with a huge margin, he said. "We are once again forming the government in Jharkhand. After Jharkhand, the Mahagathbandhan will form the government in Bihar in 2025," he said.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday termed the Uttar Pradesh bypolls the "most distorted form of electoral politics".
In a post on X in Hindi, Akhilesh Yadav said, "The tactics of those who have made 'election' synonymous with 'corruption' have been captured in photographs and exposed before the world," he said.
"The world, the country and Uttar Pradesh saw the most distorted form of electoral politics in this by-election. There may be a time for lies but not an era," he said in his post.
"Now the real struggle has begun. Tighten your fist and make the PDA proclaim 'If we join, we will win!'," Akhilesh Yadav said in his post.
According to the Election Commission, the Samajwadi Party candidate Naseem Solanki from Sishamau won the seat by a margin of 8,564 votes. She defeated BJP's Suresh Awasthi.
Solanki's husband Irfan Solanki won the seat in 2012, 2017 and 2022.
The bypolls held on Wednesday were necessitated due to Irfan Solanki's disqualification from the Assembly following his conviction in a criminal case.
In Karhal, Tej Pratap Singh of the SP defeated BJP's Anujesh Pratap Singh by a margin of 14,725 votes.
The Karhal assembly seat was vacated by Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav after winning the Lok Sabha election from Kannauj.
In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the BJP won Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan and Khair seats and the SP secured Sisamau, Katehari, Karhal and Kundarki.
The RLD, which was an SP ally then, 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.
In a boost to Punjab's AAP, the party wrested Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak, and Chabbewal Assembly segments while the Congress won the Barnala seat in the bypolls, the results of which were declared on Saturday.
The bypolls, which took place on November 20, were necessitated after the incumbent legislators were elected to the Lok Sabha earlier this year.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) managed to breach the Congress bastion in Gidderbaha and Dera Baba Nanak segments, however, it lost its own stronghold of Barnala Assembly segment to the main opposition party.
The BJP drew a blank in the bypolls as its candidates remained at a distant third spot in the four seats. The Shiromani Akali Dal had stayed away from the bypolls.
With this victory, the AAP will have 94 seats and the Congress will have 16 in the 117-member Assembly.
Rashtriya Lok Dal's Mithlesh Pal on Saturday won the Assembly bypoll from Uttar Pradesh's Meerapur, according to the Election Commission.
Pal, who bagged 84,304 votes, defeated her nearest rival Sumbul Rana of the Samajwadi Party by 30,796 votes.
Zahid Hussain of the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) finished third with 22,661 votes, while Shahnazar of the Bahujan Samaj Party came fifth with 3,248 votes.
The bypoll in Meerapur was necessitated after sitting MLA Chandan Chauhan of the RLD got elected to the Lok Sabha from Bijnor earlier this year.
MBJP's Dharmraj Nishad won the Katehari assembly seat in Ambedkar Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh by defeating Samajwadi Party's Shobhawati Varma by a margin of 34,514 votes, the Election Commission said.
According to the ECI, Nishad bagged 1,04,091 votes while Varma got 69,577 votes.
BSP's Amit Verma claimed the third spot by bagging 41,647 votes.
Varma is the wife of Samajwadi Party's Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar Lalji Verma.
Bypolls in Katehari were necessitated following the election of its sitting MLA Lalji Verma as Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar earlier this year.
Congress candidate Deen Dayal won Dausa assembly seat in Rajasthan on Saturday, defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Jag Mohan by a margin of 2,300 votes, according to the Election Commission.
Deen Dayal polled 75,536 votes and Mohan, the brother of cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena, got 73,236 votes, the Election Commission (EC) website showed.
Dausa is among the seven assembly seats in Rajasthan where bypolls were held on November 13. The counting of votes began at 8 am on Saturday.
Currently, the 200-seat Rajasthan Assembly has 114 MLAs of the BJP, 65 of the Congress, three of the Bharat Adivasi Party, two of the Bahujan Samaj Party, one of the Rashtriya Lok Dal and eight Independents.
BJP's Shuchismita Maurya on Saturday won the assembly bypoll from Uttar Pradesh's Majhawan, according to the Election Commission.
Maurya, who bagged 77,737 votes, defeated her nearest rival Jyoti Bind of the Samajwadi Party by 4,922 votes. Deepak Tiwari of the Bahujan Samaj Party finished third with 34,927 votes, EC data showed.
The byelection at Majhawan was necessitated after sitting MLA Vinod Kumar Bind of the Nishad Party got elected to the Lok Sabha from Bhadohi on a BJP ticket earlier this year.
The Congress continued its losing spree on Saturday posting its worst-ever show in Maharashtra and ending up a distant junior partner to the ruling JMM in Jharkhand, further diminishing its role in the opposition bloc as other allies perform better.
While the INDIA bloc's victory in Jharkhand was some consolation, losing a big state like Maharashtra after the upset in Haryana is likely to weaken the grand old party's broad bargaining power in this era of coalition politics.
The Congress party's strength in Lok Sabha also got reduced to 98 seats after it lost the Nanded Lok Sabha to the BJP in the bypolls.
The poor show of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra extinguished hopes of getting Rajya Sabha seats from the state in future.
On the other hand, the NDA with its stupendous victory is set to get a majority in the Upper House in the next cycle of biennial elections.
Despite being the dominant party of the opposition MVA in Maharashtra, the Congress failed to pull the weight of the opposition bloc and stood decimated in the face of an NDA tsunami.
The Congress which contested the highest number of assembly seats among MVA allies, 101 out of 288, was winning or leading in only 16 seats with one of the lowest strike rates of 16 per cent.
The worst strike rate in Maharashtra elections was of Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) at 11.6 per cent (with lead/win in 10 seats out of 86 fought), Shiv Sena (UBT) managing 22 per cent (lead/ win in 21 seats as against 95 contested).
On the other hand, the strike rate of the BJP was the highest with 88.6 per cent (lead/win in 132 seats out of 149 it contested).
The BJP got a vote share of 26.46 per cent and was followed by Shiv Sena with 12.47 per cent and NCP with 9.35 per cent. Among the MVA, the Congress had the highest vote share of 11.89 per cent, followed by NCP-SP with 11.25 and Shiv Sena (UBT) with 10.28 per cent.
Interestingly, other parties got more vote share of 13.84 per cent than each of the MVA partners.
In Jharkhand, it was Chief Minister Hemant Soren-led JMM that saw the ruling coalition through as his party gained a four percentage vote share over the last elections while the share of the rest of the parties either fell or remained stagnant.
The BJP in Jharkhand got 33.15 per cent vote share while JMM got 23.17 per cent and the Congress 15.57 per cent.
The TMC swept bypolls in West Bengal on Saturday, retaining five seats and wresting Madarihat from BJP, further cementing its political dominance in West Bengal, even as the ongoing protests over the RG Kar incident failed to sway voters.
The bypolls were held in six constituencies — Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, Taldangra, Sitai (SC), and Madarihat (ST) — following the resignation of MLAs who had vacated their assembly seats after securing victories in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
These elections held on November 13 were seen as a crucial test for the ruling party amid a politically charged atmosphere, with protests over the RG Kar issue intensifying.
Despite these protests, the TMC emerged victorious across the board, in both rural and urban areas, continuing its winning streak of 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Five of the six constituencies are located in South Bengal, a TMC stronghold, while Madarihat is in the north, which the BJP had won in 2021.
In Haroa, where over 70 per cent of the voters belongs to the minority community, the BJP came a distant third and failed to retain its deposit, prompting party leader Suvendu Adhikari to comment: “Minorities don’t vote for BJP".
The CPI(M)-led Left Front, which had hoped to capitalise on the RG Kar protests to revive its fortunes, faced a crushing defeat, losing its deposit in Sitai, Taldangra, Medinipur and Madarihat.
Its ally CPI (ML) Liberation too lost its deposit in Naihati, while the All India Secular Front (ISF) faced the same fate in Haroa.
The Congress, which contested without an alliance with the Left for the first time since 2021 but fared no better, lost deposits in all six constituencies.
In a major triumph, the Trinamool Congress is set for a clean sweep in all six bypolls, retaining four seats, wresting Madarihat from BJP, and leading in one, further cementing its political dominance in West Bengal, even as the ongoing protests over the RG Kar incident failed to sway voters.
The bypolls were held in six constituencies — Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, Taldangra, Sitai (SC), and Madarihat (ST) — following the resignation of sitting MLAs who had vacated their assembly seats after securing victories in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
These elections held on November 13 were seen as a crucial test for the ruling party amid a politically charged atmosphere, with protests over RG Kar issue intensifying. However, despite these protests, the TMC emerged victorious across the board continuing its winning streak of 2024 Lok Sabha poll victory.
Five of the six constituencies are located in South Bengal, a TMC stronghold, while Madarihat is in the northern part of the state, which the BJP had won in 2021. The by-poll results reinforce TMC’s political dominance across West Bengal.
In Haroa, where over 70 per cent of the electorate belongs to the minority community, the BJP came a distant third and failed to retain its deposit, prompting party leader Suvendu Adhikari to comment: “Minorities don’t vote for the BJP".
The CPI(M)-led Left Front, which had hoped to capitalise on the RG Kar protests to revive its fortunes, faced a crushing defeat, losing its deposit in Sitai and Madarihat. Similarly, its ally, the CPI(ML), lost its deposit in Naihati, while the All India Secular Front (ISF) lost its deposit in Haroa.
The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
The JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by a margin of more than 21,000 votes RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj, whom the RJD may have liked to blame for its defeat by causing a split in Muslim votes.
The BJP and its allies retained two assembly seats and were leading in the three other constituencies in Assam where bypolls were held on November 13.
The saffron camp and its ally United Peoples' Party Liberal (UPPL) on Saturday won the Sidli and the Behali assembly seats.
The NDA allies were also leading in all the remaining three constituencies with BJP's Nihar Ranjan Das in Dholai (SC), Diplu Ranjan Sarmah in Samaguri and AGP nominee Diptimayee Choudhury in Bongaigaon comfortably ahead of their Congress rivals.
UPPL candidate Nirmal Kumar Brahma defeated his nearest rival Shuddho Kumar Basumatary of the Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF) in the Sidli (ST) constituency by a margin of 37,016 votes.
Brahma polled 95,243 votes while Basumatary secured 58,227 votes and the third candidate in the fray Sanjib Warie of the Congress secured only 7,634 votes.
The seat was earlier held by UPPL's Jayanta Basumatary who was elected to the Lok Sabha earlier this year.
In Behali, the BJP retained the seat with Diganta Ghatowal polling 50,947 votes while Jayanta Borah secured 41,896 votes.
Four candidates were in the fray in the constituency, including Lakhikanta Kurmi of the CPI(ML) Liberation and Ananta Gogoi of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) with both losing their deposits.
The seat was earlier held by Ranjit Dutta who was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Tezpur parliamentary seat.
Bypolls were held in the five assembly constituencies as these fell vacant following the election of the previous representatives to the Lok Sabha earlier this year.
The BJP contested in three of the five constituencies - Behali, Samaguri and Dholai (SC) - while its alliance partner AGP and UPPL had put up candidates for Bongaigaon and Sidli (ST) seats.
The BJP won Ghaziabad, Khair and Phulpur assembly seats while the Samajwadi Party bagged Sishamau and Karhal in the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, results of which were announced on Saturday.
The ruling BJP is leading in three of the nine seats for which bypolls were held on November 20 and its ally RLD is ahead in one, according to the Election Commission (EC).
BJP's Phulpur candidate Deepak Patel defeated his nearest rival and Samajwadi Party (SP) nominee Md Mujtaba Siddiqui by a margin of 11,305 votes. Patel got a total of 78,289 votes, the EC website showed.
In Ghaziabad, BJP's Sanjeev Sharma defeated his nearest rival and SP candidate Singh Raj Jatav by a margin of 69,351 votes. Sharma got a total of 96,946 votes.
In Khair, BJP's Surender Diler got 1,00,181 votes and defeated SP's Charu Kain by a margin of 38,393 votes.
The SP retained Sishamau and Karhal assembly seats, according to the EC.
In Karhal, SP's Tej Pratap Yadav defeated BJP's Anujesh Pratap Singh by a margin of 14,725 votes. Yadav got a total of 1,04,304 votes.
Karhal assembly seat was vacated by SP president Akhilesh Yadav after he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj.
In Sishamau, SP's Naseem Solanki defeated BJP's Suresh Awasthi by 8,564 votes.
Solanki secured 69,714 votes while Awasthi got 61,150. The Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) Virendra Kumar was a distant third with 1,410 votes.
Solanki's husband Irfan won the seat in 2012, 2017 and 2022.
The Sishamau bypoll was necessitated after Irfan was disqualified from the assembly following his conviction in a criminal case.
BJP candidate Anil Kumar Katara won the bypoll to Chorasi assembly seat in Rajasthan by a margin of 24,370 votes on Saturday.
Katara secured 89,161 votes while the BJP's Karilal secured 64,791 votes. Congress candidate Mahesh Roat got 15,915 votes.
The assembly seat fell vacant after the Bharat Adivasi Party's incumbent legislator Rajkumar Roat won the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year.
Congress has won in all three constituencies in Karnataka - Channapatna, Sandur and Shiggaon - that went into polls, as per current Election Commission of India (ECI).
The Congress' C.P. Yogeshwarahas won from Channapatna Assembly by-elections in Karnataka, by a margin of 25,413 votes over JD(S)' Nikhil Kumaraswamy.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday celebrated Congress's victory in the by polls calling it "a message from the people."
Shivakumar praised the Congress victory, stating, "I don't say it is a defeat of Bharath Bommai, it's a message from the people for what his father did. Only two things work - development and guarantees. It is a message from the people that allegations should stop, and concentration should be on work. This is the beginning, and we will come back to power in 2028."
National People's Party (NPP) party candidate and chief minister's wife Mehtab Chandee Agitok Sangma won the Gambegre constituency in Meghalaya bypoll by a margin of over 4,500 votes.
Chandee secured 12,679 votes while her nearest candidate Sadhiarani M Sangma of AITC manage to secure 8,084 votes, followed by Congress' Jingjang M Marak with 7,695 votes.
With this win, the NPP strength in the House increased to 32 in the 60-member Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
Reacting to Priyanka Gandhi's stupendous political debut, Congress' ally Indian Union Muslim League and Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said she would get more votes than her brother Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha polls in April this year and will win by a record margin.
"An amazing first trend on counting day is the massive early lead for our leader @priyankagandhi ji in Wayanad, Kerala, by-election. People of Wayanad are surely going to record in victory margins today and Priyanka ji will make Parliamentary debut with a grand win," Reddy said in a post on 'X'.
In Assam, BJP's Diganta Ghatowal wins Behali assembly seat, defeating Cong's Jayanta Bora by 9,051 votes. The party is leading in 2 other seats - Dholai and Sidli
In Sikkim, SKM won both the seats - Soreng Chakung and Namchi–Singhithang
In West Bengal, the TMC has gained vicory in 3 constituencies, Sitai (SC), and Madarihat (ST) and Naihati. Meanwhile, it is leading in other three constituencies
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is likely to get more votes than her brother Rahul Gandhi got in the Wayanad Lok Sabha poll.
IUML supremo Panakkad Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal said, “going by the trends, Priyanka will get more votes than what Rahul got and the majority she achieves would also be higher than that of her brother."
According to Election Commission figures at 11.46 am, Priyanka had a lead of 2,35,035 with 3,57,165 votes. LDF's Sathyan Mokeri was at second with 1,22,130 votes and NDA's Navya Haridas coming third with 67,058 votes.
Rahul had got 6,47,445 votes and won by a margin of 3,64,422 votes against his nearest rival, CPI's Annie Raja, in the LS polls this year.
In 2019, he had got 7,06,367 votes and had won by a margin of 4,31,770.
Congress-led UDF candidate Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday extended her lead by over two lakh votes after three hours of counting of the ballots in the Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll in Kerala, according to the Election Commission.
According to EC figures at 11.23 am, Priyanka received 3,17,983 votes with LDF's Sathyan Mokeri at second with 1,08,810 and BJP's Navya Haridas third with 60,692 votes.
The counting of votes commenced at 8 am with postal ballots being taken up first.
Trends show the ruling Congress leading in Sandur segment, and BJP and JD(S) ahead in Shiggaon and Channapatna constituencies respectively, as the counting of votes is underway for bypolls held to three Assembly segments in Karnataka.
TMC is leading all 6 seat in West Bengal - Sitai, Madarihat, Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, and Taldangra. The party is hoping for a clean sweep despite all the clamour around RG Kar incidident
In Maharashtra's Nanded lok sabha seat, BJP's Dr Santuk Hambarde is leading
Early trends from the bypolls in Punjab on Saturday showed the Aam Aadmi Party leading in Chabbewal, Gidderbaha, and Dera Baba Nanak, while Congress was ahead in the Barnala constituency.
In Uttar Pradesh, among the nine assembly seats the BJP+RLD leading in six seats- Ghaziabad, Meerapur, Kundarki, Khair, Katehari and Majhawan. SP leading in three assembly seats- Karhal, Shishamau and Phulpur
Slamming Priyanka Gandhi, BJP candidate for Wayanad, Navya Haridas said that if the people want development in Wayanad, they will choose the NDA.
Speaking to ANI, Haridas said. “Last time Rahul Gandhi had won from Wayanad but he rejected this Mandal and retained Rae Bareli. This time the voting percentage came down as they were not in the mood to face the election after the landslide incident. If people need development in Wayanad, then they would select NDA."
"Congress is trying to influence voters this time by providing kits, money, liquor--everything. Because there is a fear factor for Congress that they are going to lose this election," Haridas told ANI.
Meanwhile, Priyanka Gandhi is leading in the Wayanad seat, she has already crossed 50,000 vote mark
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha's Aditya Golay (Tamang) won Soreng–Chakung Assembly by-election uncontested.
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha's Satish Chandra Rai won Namchi–Singhithang Assembly by-election uncontested.
BJP's Asha Nautiyal was on Saturday leading in the Kedarnath seat after the end of first round of counting, poll officials said.
She was leading over Congress's Manoj Rawat
The assembly seat in Rudraprayag district fell vacant after the death of BJP MLA Shaila Rani Rawat in July this year.
Early trend shows Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi is leading in Wayanad. As per Election Commission website, she crossed the 50,000 votes mark
In Bihar, RJD's Raushan Kumar leading in Imamganj Assembly by-elections by a margin of 2665 votes, as per the official EC trends. Counting continues.
The counting of votes are underway for six Assembly seats of West Bengal. . These seats include, Madarihat and Sitai are in northern West Bengal and Taldangra, Medinipur, Haroa, and Naihati in southern West Bengal. In 2021, five of these were bagged by the TMC, while the BJP won in one seat.
The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is confident of winning all seats, while the BJP is banking on public outrage over alleged corruption and the R.G. Kar trainee doctor’s rape and murder in August, which triggered statewide protests.
You can check the latest trends and updates for bypoll results at ECI website: https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcByeNov2024/index.htm
Vote counting has began for 2 Lok Sabha seats, Wayanad and Nanded, and 46 Assembly seats in 13 states.
In the crucial political battleground of Uttar Pradesh, the Meerapur, Kundarki, Sisamau, Katehari, Phulpur, Majhawan, Ghaziabad, Karhal and Khair seats went to bypolls on November 20.
In a show of confidence, Akhilesh Yadav on Friday told ANI said, “We have always seen that the exit poll predictions have not always been accurate. Many experts who have conducted surveys earlier on elections have also not always been right. The public wants change. Everbody wants BJP to be ousted from power. In Uttar Pradesh, BJP will lose all 9 seats."
The counting of votes for the Palakkad by-election will take place at Victoria College, Palakkad. Among the 10 candidates in the fray, the key contenders are Rahul Mamkootathil from the Congress-led UDF, C. Krishnakumar representing the BJP-led NDA, and P. Sarin of the CPI(M)-led LDF.
This by-election was triggered by the resignation of Congress' Shafi Parambil, who vacated the seat after being elected to the Lok Sabha from Vadakara in the general election this year.
All eyes are set on Wayanad in Kerala from where Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is making her electoral debut.
Wayanad seat was vacated by Priyanka Gandhi's brother Rahul Gandhi, who also won Lok Sabha polls from family stronghold of Raebareli. Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi campaigned extensively in Wayanad.
The counting will start at 8 a.m. today, with postal ballots being counted first, according to EC officials.
In Uttar Pradesh, polling took place for nine assembly seats on Wednesday, have been intensely contested.
The byelections in Uttar Pradesh are significant for the BJP and Samajwadi Party as both the parties are aiming to seize momentum for 2027 assembly polls.
Earlier this year, the BJP faced a setback in the Lok Sabha elections, securing 33 seats compared to the 37 won by the Samajwadi Party. The Congress and Samajwadi Party had joined forces for the Lok Sabha polls, and in these assembly elections, the Congress is supporting the Samajwadi Party.
Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath campaigned extensively for the bypolls. Votes will be counted in Katehari, Karhal, Meerapur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan, Sisamau, Khair, Phulpur, and Kundarki constituencies.
Vote counting for 2 Lok Sabha seats, Wayanad and Nanded, and 46 assembly constituencies are scheduled on November 23.
