The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won one Lok Sabha and three Assembly seats, while the Aam Aadmi Party suffered a setback in Punjab’s Sangrur as the results of bypolls to three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi came on Sunday. ,
A total of three Lok Sabha seats and seven assembly seats went to polls on Thursday. Counting of votes for Sangrur Lok Sabha seats in Punjab and Rampur, Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and seven assembly seats of Tripura, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi began at 8 am today.
BJP won Rampur seat in the by-elections for two Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh and is all set to capture Azamgarh.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) suffered a setback in Punjab’s Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, but registered a landslide victory in Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar assembly by-election. Raghav Chadha had left this seat vacant to make his debut in the Rajya Sabha. APP’s Durgesh Pathak defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes, officials said.
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In a major setback to the Bhagwant Mann-led government, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) President Simranjit Singh Mann defeated Aam Aadmi Party’s candidate Gurmel Singh from Sangrur.
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The BJP has consolidated its position in Tripura by winning three of the four assembly by-polls. Chief Minister Manik Saha won his home seat from Town Bardowali, while the Congress won the Agartala by-election, returning to the assembly after years.
Chief Minister Saha got 17,181 votes, which is 51.63 percent of the total votes. Sudip Roy Burman of INC won the Agartala seat by a margin of 3,163 votes. He got 17,241 votes, which is 43.46 percent of the total votes.
Congress is leading against BJP in Jharkhand. Meanwhile, in Andhra Pradesh, Jagan Reddy-led YSRCP has won the Atmakar assembly seat.
In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP was on a clear lead in both the Lok Sabha seats. BJP candidate from Rampur Lok Sabha seat Ghanshyam Lodhi has claimed victory as he was leading against Asim Raja of Samajwadi Party by a margin of over 40,000 votes, while party’s candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua is his nearest rival Dharmendra Yadav of SP. were marching against.
Here is the list of winners/leading candidates in the by-elections:
List of winners in Lok Sabha by-elections:
by-election seat | winning/leading candidate | Loser/Previous Candidate | winning party |
Sangrur (Punjab) | Simranjit Singh Mannu | Gurmail Singh (AAP) | Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) |
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh) | Dinesh lal yadav | Dharmendra Yadav (SP) | BJP |
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) | Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi | Mo. Asim Raja (SP) | BJP |
List of winners in assembly by-elections:
by-election seat | Winner / Leading Candidate | Loser/Previous Candidate | winning party |
Atmakur (Andhra Pradesh) | Mekapati.Vikram Reddy | Bharat Kumar Gundlapally (BJP) | YSRCP |
Mandar (Jharkhand) | Shilpi Neha Tirkey | Gangotri Kujur (BJP) | Congress |
Rajinder Nagar (Delhi NCT) | Durgesh Pathak | Rajesh Bhatia (BJP) | Aam Aadmi Party |
Agartala | Sudip Roy Burman | Ashok Sinha (BJP) | Congress |
jubrajnagar | Malina Debnathi | Shailendra Chandra Nath (CPI-M) | BJP |
Anjan | Swapna Das | Baburam Satnami (IND) | BJP |
Town Bardowali | ruby co: | Ashish Kumar Saha (Congress) | BJP |