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PremiumBypolls Result 2025 Highlights: Bypolls were held in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu this week with the results set to be declared on February 8.
BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan won in Milkipur with a massive margin of 61710 votes against Smajwadi Party leader Ajit Prasad. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in Erode East Chandhirakumar VC is leading by a heavy margin.
The Milkipur seat — part of the politically significant Ayodhya district — has turned into a prestige battle between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP. Meanwhile the DMK is expected to cruise through the Erode East bypoll with most Opposition party boycotting the election.
Congress leader EVKS Elangovan won the Erode seat by a margin of 66,233 votes duing the 2023 elections. Bypolls were necessitated by his death in mid-December — with only two major parties deciding to contest the polls.
There were 46 candidates, including 44 independents, in the fray and the contest was only between the ruling DMK candidate VC Chandirakumar and Tamil nationalist party, Naam Tamizhar Katchi leader M K Seethalakshmi. Opposition parties — including the main opposition AIADMK — boycotted the polls.
Stay tuned for updates with Mint as votes are counted on Saturday.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan won the Milkipur bypolls by a margin of 61,710 votes on Saturday. Paswan polled over 1.46 lakh votes while his trailing SP rival Ajit Prasad garnered 84,687 votes.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Samajwadi Party candidate Ajit Prasad lost bypolls in Milkipur by 61,700 votes.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: The counting of votes for the highly anticipated Erode assembly bypolls is close to conclusion. The counting began amid heightened security after the strong rooms were officially opened at the counting center on Saturday.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: DMK candidate leading by 76186 votes in Erode East
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Chandrabhani Paswan on Saturday registered a landslide victory after winning Milkipur bypolls by 61710 votes
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in Milkipur assembly constituency, according to ECI data after 29 rounds of vote counting.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP leader Chandrabhanu Paswan registered a historic record after leading in Milkipur bypolls with the largest margin.
The previous record in Milkipur of victory by a maximum margin was in 1967, when Samajwadi Party's Awadhesh Prasad won by 34,237 votes. According to ECI data, Chandrabhanu Paswan is leading by 59084
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu was on Saturday coasting towards victory in the Erode East bypoll, with the party nominee extending his lead against his nearest NTK rival to over 40,000 votes.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan is leading in Milkipur with a wide margin of 51752 votes against Samajwadi Party candidate Ajit Prasad.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Bharatiya Janata Party is close to marking a victory in Milkipur and avenge the only seat the BJP lost in Ayodhya district.
BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan is leading by 40624 votes.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan is leading by 14,339 votes to his nearest rival Ajit Prasad of Samajwadi Party, according to the Election Commission website. There are 25 rounds left in the vote counting in the constituency.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: DMK Candidate Chandhirakumar VC leading in Tamil Nadu's Erode East by 18652 votes. So far, he has won 22682 votes
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Commenting on BJP candidate's lead in Milkipur bypolls, BJP MP Dinesh Sharma said that the election results are a testimony of the breakdown of Samajwadi Party's arrogance over the Lok Sabha elections. Samajwadi Party should democratically accept the defeat with love.
“When the Yamuna river gets cleaned under the leadership of the BJP government in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal will get an opportunity to take a dip in the river which he could not take during his tenure... These were not just Delhi's elections. This was an election for a change in the politics of India... Now the Opposition will cry that EVMs were rigged or will run to form another alliance," he told ANI
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Milkipur is leading in in the constituency against SP candidate.
Speaking to PTI Videos, the BJP candidate thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He also expressed his gratitude to voters for supporting him.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: DMK candidate Chandirakumar VC is leading in Erode East by 6756 votes against NTK candidate M.K. SEETHALAKSHMI.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Counting is still underway in Erode East, and the Election Commission of India's vote counting trends are yet to be updated for the seat.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan is leading in Milkipur by 17123 votes.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP's Chandrabhanu Paswan leading in Milkipur
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Tensions have erupted during vote counting in Erode East. NTK candidate MK Seethalakshmi accused DMK of buying votes out of fear, reported Times of India.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad on Saturday said that the BJP has registered its name in “the Guinness Book of Records in dishonesty...BJP will lose this election and SP candidate Ajit Prasad will win and create history..."
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: DMK is hoping for a comfortable victory in Erode East, as per early trends indicated by India Today. The official trends are yet to be out by the Election Commission.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Milkipur Chandra Bhanu Paswan on Saturday thanked PM Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and said, “I thank Modi ji and Yogi ji. I thank the voters for their support. I have received huge respect and support."
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP Candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan on Saturday visited a temple and offered prayers ahead of vote counting.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: A heated exchange occured between Naam Tamizhar Katchi canddiate and election officials, reported Times of India. The argument broke when she insisted on having her advocate present
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: BJP candidate from Milkipur takes early lead against SP leader Ajit Prasad, indicates early trend by Times of India.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: AIADMK, and several opposition parties have boycotted the bypolls. After boycott, there are 46 candidates. Out of them 44 are independnets.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Vote counting begins in Erode, reported Press Trust of India.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: A total of 46 candidates are eying victory in Erode East. Out of them, 44 are independent candidates. The key contest is between the ruling DMK and Seeman’s Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK).
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Accusing the BJP,AIADMK of failing to stand against DMK, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said that the two opponent parties could neither oppose the DMK candidate V C Chandirakumar nor face the electorate and hence, they levelled defamatory allegations for boycotting the bypoll.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday targeted AIADMK and BJP of waging an indirect war against his party by instigating ‘political fringes’ in bypoll.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of opting for unfair practices during voting for victory in Milkipur by-election.
He claimed that votes were cast in the name of deceased and fraudlent voting took place
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Election in Tamil Nadu's Erode are being held after the death of Congress MLA EVKS Elangovan
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: The Bharatiya Janata Party is seeing Milkipur as their final chance to avenge their defeat in Ayodhya during Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Milkipur was the only assembly seat that the BJP lost within Ayodhya district in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: Uttar Pradesh's Milkipur recorded a voter turnout of 65% on Thursday. THe electins in UP Milkupur were held after SP leader Awadhesh Prasad necessitated Milkipur bypolls.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: A total of ten candidates contested the Milkipur bypolls. The direct competition is between Samajwadi Party (SP)'s Ajit Prasad and Bharatiya Janata Party's Chandrabhanu Paswan.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: The constituency is likely to see a close contest between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP. Polling for Milkipur in UP was necessitated after SP leader Awadhesh Prasad vacated the seat on winning the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Faizabad.
The BJP sees the bypoll as a chance to avenge this loss and gain fresh ground in the state. It is pertinent to note that Milkipur was the only assembly seat that the BJP lost within Ayodhya district in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
Bypolls Result 2025 Live Updates: The DMK is expected to secure an easy victory in Erode as most Opposition parties — including the AIADMK — have boycotted the polls.
There were 46 candidates (including 44 independents) in the fray earlier this week. The contest is likely to be between DMK candidate VC Chandirakumar and Tamil nationalist party Naam Tamizhar Katchi's leader M K Seethalakshmi.
