Bypoll Results 2023 Highlights: ‘People have accepted INDIA’ Congress rejoices, says ‘Results are only a trailer’

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday congratulated the opposition INDIA bloc parties for winning four seats out of seven in the assembly bypolls, calling it "not an easy feat".

"Congratulations to the INDIA alliance @INCIndia (Congress), @HemantSorenJMM (Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren), @AITCofficial (Trinamool Congress) and @samajwadiparty (Samajwadi Party) for their spectacular wins against divisive forces," she said in a post on X.

"Not an easy feat given the combined might of the central government and its agencies," Mehbooba added.

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader also used the INDIA bloc's "Judega Bharat, Jeetega India" tagline as hashtags.

Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's daughter Achu Oommen on Friday lashed out at those who alleged that Puthuppally was lagging behind in terms of development, and said the people of the constituency have given a fitting response to those who tried to undermine the Congress stalwart's legacy. Achu's brother Chandy Oommen was on Friday declared the winner -- by a huge and historic margin -- of the bypoll to the Puthuppally seat, which had been represented by their father for over 50 years in the state Assembly. Congress's Chandy Oommen defeated CPI(M) candidate Jaick C Thomas by a margin of 37,719 votes.

The Congress on Friday said the victory of four INDIA bloc candidates in bypolls to seven seats proves that the people have accepted the opposition alliance as an alternative to the BJP.

Congress deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari said the results announced on Friday are only a trailer to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections when INDIA bloc will win majority across regions.

The "bumper" victory of Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh in Ghosi confirms "my claim that India's candidate will get more than 50 percent votes on every seat", Tiwari said.

"This victory is the victory of 'INDIA' and those who were in doubt till now will become determined, and will give their everything to make 'INDIA' win and will save the country's democracy and defeat dictatorship," he said in a statement.

Chandy Oommen registered a historic win in Puthuppally Assembly constituency in Kerala, while TMC wrested the Dhupguri seat from BJP. 

Further JMM retained their Dumri seat and Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh defeated Dara Singh Chauhan of BJP by 42,759 votes in Ghosi, Uttar Pradesh

The BJP managed to retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand and Dhanpur in Tripura and wrested Boxanagar assembly seat from CPI(M) in the northeastern state. 

Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh wins Ghosi assembly bypoll defeating Dara Singh Chauhan of BJP by 42,759 votes: Official.

The BJP on Friday put up a brave face after its defeat in the Dhupguri assembly by-election in West Bengal, saying it may not have won the seat but the people of the state will deliver a "crushing blow" to the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The ruling TMC wrested the Dhupguri assembly seat in Jalpaiguri district from the BJP in a by-election.

"The BJP may not have won the Dhupguri assembly constituency in West Bengal but we are grateful to all the voters and karyakartas, who ensured that the BJP holds on to its vote share, despite a hostile and oppressive TMC regime," BJP's co-incharge for the state Amit Malviya said in a post on X.

Malviya said that the "marginal win" for the ruling TMC, just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is an indication of “times ahead”.

North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor and senior BJP leader, Himanta Biswa Sarma Friday expressed his gratitude to the voters of Tripura for the wins by BJP candidates in by-election to two assembly seats. He congratulated BJP candidates for winning Boxanagar seat by over 30,000 votes and Dhanpur seat by 18,871 votes.

Congress's Chandy Oommen, who retained the party's bastion Puthuppally with a historic margin in the September 5 bypoll, will take oath as its new MLA on Monday, filling the seat left vacant by the death of his father and party stalwart Oommen Chandy.

The ruling BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes in a closely contested bypoll.

Dass got 33,247 votes while Kumar polled 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said.

The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she said.

The three other candidates in the fray -- Uttarakhand Kranti Dal's Arjun Kumar Dev, Samajwadi Party's Bhagwati Prasad and Uttarakhand Parivartan Party's Bhagwat Kohli -- lost their deposits getting 857, 637 and 268 votes, respectively.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday congratulated his party candidate Sudhakar Singh, who is leading in Ghosi Assembly bypolls by a huge margin, saying that this is a "victory" of the INDIA bloc and that it will continue in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.

According to the Election Commission of India, the Samajwadi Party candidate is leading by over 30,000 votes and has garnered over 88,000 votes, in the latest trends. Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dara Singh Chauhan, who is trailing, has received only 38.67 per cent vote share.

Ahead of ECI's final result, Akhilesh Yadav congratulated Sudhakar Singh and the people of Ghosi.

Tripura Bypoll: BJP bags both Boxanagar, and Dhanpur

Kerala Bypoll: Congress registers historic win, dealing a blow to CPI (M)

Jharkhand Bypoll: JMM's Bebi Devi retains Dumri seat left vacant by her husband upon his untimely death

West Bengal Bypoll: TMC usurps BJP to win Dhupguri seat

Uttarakhand Bypoll: BJP's Parwati Dass wins Bageswar seat

Uttar Pradesh Bypoll:  counting for Ghosi underway with Samajwadi Party leading

On Tripura By poll results, Tripura CM Manik Saha says, "...We never thought we would get this result... This win is against the dividing policy... We saw appeasement politics...The trend shows that people have trust in the BJP... People have shown trust in PM's 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas' slogan... The victory shows a direction that we can win even in the minority areas... Everyone's effort is behind this victory... This shows that the people have accepted the double-engine government... Tripura never saw peaceful elections ... After our government came in 2018, these were the first elections... The people of Tripura have shown what democracy is... We have won democratically..."

Workers at Congress office in Ranchi, Jharkhand celebrate as alliance partner JMM's candidate Bebi Devi leads in Dumri seat bypoll.

The counting of votes for Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh is still underway

Dealing a crushing blow to Kerala's ruling LDF, Congress candidate Chandy Oommen on Friday retained for the party-led UDF, the Puthuppally assembly seat, which his father and former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy held for over half-a-century.

Chandy Oommen trounced his main rival Jaick C Thomas of CPI(M) by a huge and historic margin in the bypoll. The 37-year-old Oommen defeated Thomas by a margin of 37,719 votes in the bypoll battle that saw a nearly month-long vigorous campaigning by leaders of the Congress, CPI(M), and BJP for their respective party candidates.

While Oommen gathered 80,144 votes, Thomas could get only 42,425 votes.

BJP leader Amit Malviya on Friday congratulated BJP as the party won Tripura's Boxanagar and Dhanpur assembly seats in the bypolls. "End of the road for the Communists, in what was once their bastion," he wrote.

"North Bengal is totally with us...in Dhupguri, it was a seat of BJP and we won the election. I congratulate all the people of Dhupguri. So wherever BJP lost and INDIA party won, I congratulate all of them", said TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

The BJP hailed its victory in the bypolls to the Dhanpur and Boxanagar Assembly seats in Tripura on Friday and said it is the end of the road for the communists in the northeastern state, which was once known as a Left bastion.

The saffron party gave the credit for its victory in the Tripura bypolls to the "strong and widely recognised" leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his mantra of "Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas", and said the results show the people's "approval" to the developmental work carried out by the party's "double-engine" government in the state.

"I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the people of Tripura for making the BJP victorious in the Boxanagar and Dhanpur assembly bye-elections," Home Minister Amit Shah said in a post on X.

Criticising the state party leadership's failure to fix the organisational gaps for the defeat in the Dhupguri by-poll, party national secretary Anupam Hazra Friday called for "proper" self-assessment and fixing of the lacunae ahead of the Lok Sabha poll.

The ruling TMC wrested the Dhupguri assembly seat in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Friday from the BJP in the September 5 by-election. TMC candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy, a college professor, won the seat by over 4,000 votes. His nearest rival was BJP's Tapasi Roy, the widow of a CRPF jawan killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 2021.

"I think it is high time that there is proper self-assessment and organisational gaps are fixed ahead of the Lok Sabha poll. We should take measures to fix our lacunae at the earliest," Hazra told news agency PTI.

Kerala's Puthuppally assembly constituency saw son of late Congress stalwart Oommen Chandy, Chandy Oommen win the bypoll, breaking father's record, tending a blow to the Communist Party of India government in the state.

Chandy Ommen won from Puthuppally by around 37000 votes.

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West Bengal's chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) wrested the Dhupguri assembly seat in Jalpaiguri district on Friday from the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in a by-election, officials said.

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BJP candidate Parvati Das is leading the race by a huge margin, with Congress' Basant Kumar in second.

Congratulating the people, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Friday, "I want to extend my gratitude to the voters of Bageshwar. I want to congratulate Parvati Das, and this win is a homage to Chandan Das. We will complete his unfinished work and his dreams. Once again, I congratulate the people of Bageshwar for supporting the policies of PM Modi in the country and Uttarakhand."

JMM candidate Bebi Devi won the by-election to the Dumri assembly seat in Jharkhand's Giridih district on Friday by defeating AJSU party nominee Yashoda Devi by over 17,000 votes, according to a district administration official.

The JMM candidate who is also the INDIA block nominee got about 1,35,480 votes while NDA candidate Yashoda Devi got about 1,18,380 votes, the official said.

Bebi Devi is the the wife former Jharkhand minister Jagarnath Mahto, whose death in April necessitated the by-election.

She termed her victory as a 'true tribute' to Mahto who had represented the seat since 2004.

The polling for the by-election was held on September 5. Of the total 2.98 lakh eligible voters, 64.84 per cent had cast their votes.

The BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes.

Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said.

The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she declared.

Bypoll to the seat was held on September 5 with 55.44 per cent of the electorate casting their vote.

Parwati Dass, who won the seat, is wife of the late Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year had necessitated the bypoll.

Her husband had been winning the seat consecutively since 2007.

This is the fifth time in a row that the BJP has bagged the seat.

The three other candidates in the fray have all lost their deposits.

BJP candidate Parwati Dass was leading by 2,726 votes over the Congress' Basant Kumar as counting of votes polled in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll in Uttarakhand progressed on Friday.

At the end of the 13th round of counting, the BJP candidate had polled 31,411 votes while the Congress candidate got 28,685 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said.

The 14th round of counting continues, she said.

Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh strengthened his lead over his BJP rival Dara Singh Chauhan with a margin of 22,923 votes after the 17th round of counting in the Ghosi assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

According to the Election Commission (EC), while Singh has garnered 66,707 votes so far, Chauhan has got 43,784 votes. There will be 34 rounds of counting.

The ruling TMC wrested the Dhupguri assembly seat in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Friday from the BJP in a by-election, officials said.

TMC candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy, a college professor, won the seat by over 4,000 votes. His nearest rival was BJP's Tapasi Roy, the widow of a CRPF jawan killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 2021, they said.

CPI(M) candidate Ishwar Chandra Roy, who was backed by the Congress, was at a distant third spot, they added.

BJP's Parwati Dass wins Bageshwar Assembly bypoll in Uttarakhand: District Magistrate.

This is the first election between the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition bloc, the newly formed Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). 

Apart from Puthupally, counting for the bye-elections is being held for the Dhupguri seat in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri, Dumri in Jharkhand and Uttarakhand Bageshwar, and Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura and Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh.

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Kerala Bypoll: Congress' Chandy Oommen wins Puthuppally seat by 37000 votes

Tripura Bypolls: BJP's Tafajjal Hossain and Bindu Debnath wins in Boxanagar and Dhanpur respectively 

Jharkhand Bypolls: JMM's Bebi Devi is leading in Dumri

Uttarakhand Bypoll: BJP's Parwati Dass leading in Bageswar

Uttar Pradesh Bypoll: SP's Sudhakar Singh leading in Ghosi

West Bengal Bypoll: TMC's Nirmal Chandra Roy leading in Dhupguri

Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala also reacted to Chandy's win and said that the spectacular victory in the Puthuppally bye-elections was a clear message to the Centre and the state government that they had thrown out both parties.

"The spectacular victory in the Puthuppally bye-elections is a clear message to the Modi and Pinarayi Vijayan governments. Both the BJP and CPM have been thrown out by the people of Puthuppally. No by-election in Kerala has had such a landslide margin. The message is very clear," he added.

"I was expecting these results because people of Puthupally were waiting to punish those people... It is a punishment by the people's court in Puthupally against those people...My request to CPM and government, please tell the people of Kerala that 'we are sorry about what we've done'...," Congress leader AK Antony said.

JMM's Bebi Devi was leading by 6,536 votes over her nearest AJSU Party rival Yashoda Devi in the by-election to the Dumri Assembly seat in Jharkhand's Giridih district on Friday, officials said.

After 18 rounds of counting, the JMM candidate, who is the INDIA bloc nominee, secured 72,042 votes, while the AJSU party candidate, an NDA nominee, got 65,506 votes, they said.

Giridih deputy commissioner-cum-district election officer Naman Priyesh Lakra told PTI that the counting of votes began at 8 am on Friday for the by-election amid tight security. (PTI)

The BJP hailed its victory in the bypolls to the Dhanpur and Boxanagar Assembly seats in Tripura on Friday and said it is the end of the road for the communists in the northeastern state, which was once known as a Left bastion.

According to the Election Commission (EC), Tafajjal Hossain of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Boxanagar seat, which has around 66 per cent minority voters, by a margin of 30,237 votes. Hossain got 34,146 votes while Mizan Hossain of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) bagged 3,909 votes.

BJP's Bindu Debnath won the Dhanpur seat, which has a significant tribal population, by a margin of 18,871 votes. Debnath got 30,017 votes while Kaushik Chanda of the CPI(M) got 11,146 votes. (PTI)

Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh strengthened his lead over his BJP rival Dara Singh Chauhan with a margin of 12,139 votes after the 10th round of counting in the Ghosi assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

According to the Election Commission (EC), while Singh has garnered 38,635 votes so far, Chauhan has got 26,496. There will be 34 rounds of counting.

The counting of votes for the bypoll, which is being seen as the first major electoral clash between the NDA and opposition bloc INDIA, began at 8 am. (PTI)

The ruling TMC was leading in the by-election to the Dhupguri assembly seat in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Friday in a close contest with the BJP, officials said.

After seven rounds of counting, TMC candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy was leading by 2,931 votes. BJP candidate Tapasi Roy was at the second spot, while CPI(M) candidate Ishwar Chandra Roy, backed by the Congress, was at a distant third spot, they said. (PTI)

The Bharatiya Janata Party gained victory on Friday in two bypoll seats in Tripura's Dhanpur and Boxanagar. According to the Election Commission, BJP candidate Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat by 30,237 votes. Hossain's rival, Mizan Hossain of the Communist Party (M), received 3909 votes.

Meanwhile, the BJP's Bindu Debnath won the Dhanpur seat by 18,871 votes. Debnath received 30,017 votes, while CPI (M) candidate Kaushik Chanda got 11,146 votes. The polls for both seats were held on Tuesday, September 5. (ANI)

 The Bharatiya Janata Party gained victory on Friday in two bypoll seats in Tripura's Dhanpur and Boxanagar. According to the Election Commission, BJP candidate Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat by 30,237 votes. Hossain's rival, Mizan Hossain of the Communist Party (M), received 3909 votes.

Meanwhile, the BJP's Bindu Debnath won the Dhanpur seat by 18,871 votes. Debnath received 30,017 votes, while CPI (M) candidate Kaushik Chanda got 11,146 votes. The polls for both seats were held on Tuesday, September 5. (ANI)

BJP candidate Parwati Dass was leading by 2,041 votes over the Congress' Basant Kumar as counting of votes polled in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll progressed on Thursday.

At the end of the 10th round of counting, the BJP candidate had polled 25,094 votes while the Congress candidate got 23,053 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said. There will be 14 rounds of counting, she said.

Polling to the reserved SC seat in the Kumaon Division was held on September 5 when 55.44 per cent of the nearly 1.2 lakh voters exercised the franchise. (PTI)

Congress snatched an early lead over the BJP in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll, with its candidate Basant Kumar leading by 195 votes over the saffron party's Parvati Das in the initial round of counting on Thursday.

At the end of the second round of counting, Kumar had garnered 4,554 votes while Das had polled 4,359 votes so far, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said. (PTI)

AJSU Party candidate Yashoda Devi was leading by 1,551 votes over her nearest JMM rival Bebi Devi in the by-election to the Dumri Assembly seat in Jharkhand’s Giridih district on Friday, officials said.

After seven rounds of counting, the AJSU party candidate, an NDA nominee, secured 25,557 votes, while the JMM candidate, who is the INDIA bloc nominee, got 24,006 votes, they said.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen candidate Abdul Mobin Rizvi was in the third place with 1,129 votes. (PTI)

The BJP was leading in the by-election to the Dhupguri assembly seat in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on Friday morning, officials said.

After two rounds of counting, BJP candidate Tapasi Roy was leading by 1,085 votes. TMC's Nirmal Chandra Roy was at the second spot, while CPI(M) candidate Ishwar Chandra Roy, backed by the Congress, was at a distant third spot, they said.

The counting, which began at 8 am, was being held amid tight security at the Jalpaiguri II campus of North Bengal University. (PTI)

The BJP was ahead of the Congress in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll, with its candidate Parwati Das leading by 1,542 votes as counting progressed on Thursday. At the end of the seventh round of counting, Das had polled 18,299 votes while the Congress' Basant Kumar had garnered 16,757 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said.  (PTI)

Congress snatched an early lead over the BJP in the Bageshwar assembly bypoll, with its candidate Basant Kumar leading by 195 votes over the saffron party's Parwati Das in the initial round of counting on Friday.

At the end of the second round of counting, Kumar had garnered 4,554 votes while Das had polled 4,359 votes so far, Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Pal said. (PTI)

The counting of votes for the seven assembly seats across six states, including Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, Puthuppally in Kerala, Dhupguri in West Bengal, Dumri in Jharkhand, and Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura, is underway.

According to the initial trends, Congress candidate Chandy Oommen is leading from Puthuppally in Kerala. BJP candidate Tafajjal Hossain is leading from Boxanagar in Tripura. BJP candidate Parwati Dass is leading from Bageshwar in Uttarakhand. All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) candidate Yashoda Devi is leading from Dumri in Jharkhand, and BJP candidate Bindu Debnath from Dhupguri in West Bengal is leading, as per the information released on the official website of the Election Commission. (ANI)

SP candidate leading from the Ghosi assembly seat by 8,557 votes.

The results for bypolls to seven assembly seats in six states will be declared on Friday in what is being seen as a major test for the opposition alliance INDIA against the BJP-led NDA ahead of the polls in five states later this year and Lok Sabha elections in 2024.

The counting of votes began at 8 am at centres set up in the respective states. (PTI)