Bypoll Results 2023: BJP wins Tripura, Congress Kerala
Chandigarh, September 8
The counting of votes for the seven Assembly seats across six states that went to bypolls on Tuesday, began at 8 am at the centres set up in the respective states on Friday.
The seven seats are Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, Puthuppally in Kerala, Dhupguri in West Bengal, Dumri in Jharkhand, and Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura.
Tripura: BJP wins bypolls in Dhanpur, Boxanagar
The BJP won the by-elections to the Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly seats in Tripura’s Sepahijala district on Friday, according to the Election Commission.
BJP’s Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat, which has around 66 per cent minority voters, by 30,237 votes. Hossain got 34,146 votes, while his nearest rival Mizan Hossain of the CPI(M) got 3,909 votes.
BJP candidate Bindu Debnath bagged the Dhanpur seat, which has a significant tribal population, by 18,871 votes. Debnath got 30,017 votes, and his nearest rival Kaushik Chanda of the CPI(M) got 11,146 votes.
Kerala: Chandy Ommen wins Puthuppally
Opposition Congress-UDF on Friday retained the Puthuppally Assembly constituency in Kerala as its candidate Chandy Ommen won by a margin of over 36,000 votes in the bypoll, Election Commission sources said.
While Oommen, son of late Congress stalwart Oommen Chandy, gained a clear edge since the initial round, his nearest rival and ruling LDF candidate Jaick C Thomas could never gain a lead in any rounds.
The CPI(M)-led LDF lost ground even in its stronghold areas, and BJP candidate Lijin Lal was nowhere in the picture when the counting was over.
Chandy Oommen (37), currently chairman of the Youth Congress’s national outreach cell, could well surpass his father’s record of margin of 33,255 votes in the constituency, which the late Congress leader represented Puthuppally in the state assembly for over five decades.
Uttarakhand: BJP forges ahead of Congress in Bageshwar
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.
The BJP moved ahead of the Congress in the third round and has maintained the lead consistently so far.
The seat was held since 2007 by the BJP’s Chandan Ram Das whose death in April this year necessitated a bypoll to the seat.
Ghosi bypoll: SP candidate leads over BJP
Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh strengthened his lead over his BJP rival Dara Singh Chauhan with a margin of 4,067 votes after the fourth round of counting in the Ghosi assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the Election Commission (EC), while Singh has garnered 14,286 votes so far, Chauhan has got 10,219. There will be 34 rounds of counting.
The fate of the 10 candidates in the fray was sealed by voters on Tuesday. A voter turnout of 50.77 per cent was recorded in Ghosi, which falls under Mau district.
The Ghosi bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of Chauhan, who had won the seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, from the Samajwadi Party in July. He returned to the BJP and was fielded by the party in the bypoll.
AJSU party candidate leading in Dumri bypoll in Jharkhand
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.
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.
West Bengal: TMC leads in Dhupguri
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.
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.
The bypoll was necessitated by the death of BJP MLA Bishnu Pada Ray on July 25.
With inputs from ANI/PTI
