Bypoll Results HIGHLIGHTS: INDIA bloc wins 10 out of 13 seats, BJP bags 2; independent 1

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• 13 Jul 2024, 06:47 PM

  As the Trinamool Congress (TMC) won all the seats in the West Bengal Assembly bypoll, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that out of four seats, her party has won back three seats that were formerly held by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has retained one seat previously held by the TMC.

  "Among the four seats, three were held by the BJP, both in the Lok Sabha and in the Vidhan Sabha. We have won all three and held on to our seat as well. That means four out of four. I express my gratitude to our people for this victory," Banerjee said speaking to reporters in Kolkata on Saturday after her visit to Mumbai. (ANI)

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 04:30 PM

  The INDIA bloc is set to make a sweep in the assembly bypolls to 13 seats in seven states.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 03:20 PM

  TMC has won with 3 out of the 4 seats that went to bypoll in West Bengal. In Raiganj seat, TMC leader Krishna Kalyani defeated BJP leader Manas Kumar Ghosh by over 50,000 votes. 

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 11:48 AM

  The TMC is ahead in all four West Bengal seats, with Raiganj candidate Krishna Kalyani taking a significant lead of more than 28,000 votes.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 11:47 AM

  With the counting of votes underway, the Congress has taken the lead in the Nalagarh and Dehra seats of Himachal Pradesh, as well as the Badrinath and Manglaur seats in Uttarakhand. The Congress has also been leading in the Awarwara seat of Madhya Pradesh. Dheeran Invati is in the lead with 4,541 votes.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 11:47 AM

  AAP candidate Mohinder Bhagat won the Jalandhar West assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of more than 37,000 votes, officials said. While Bhagat polled 55,246 votes, Angural secured 17,921, they said. He joined the BJP in March.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 10:36 AM

  Trinamool Congress candidates have taken an early lead over their rivals in by-polls held in four assembly seats in West Bengal, where counting began on Saturday morning, TV channels reported. The bypolls for Maniktala, Bagdah, Ranaghat Dakshin, and Raiganj assembly seats were held on July 10.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 10:36 AM

  Congress' candidates, including Himachal Pradesh Chief Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife, are in the lead in all three assembly constituencies in the state where bypolls were held earlier this week, officials said on Saturday. The counting of votes for the by-elections in Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh, held on Wednesday, began at 8 am.

  Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur was leading by 636 votes against her nearest rival and BJP candidate Hoshiyar Singh after the fifth round of counting, the officials said. In the Hamirpur assembly seat, Congress' Pushpinder Verma was ahead by 1,704 votes against BJP candidate Ashish Sharma after the second round of counting, they said.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 10:33 AM

  AAP's Jalandhar West assembly bypoll candidate Mohinder Bhagat appears to be heading for a victory from the seat in Punjab as he was leading by more than 23,000 votes against his nearest rival and Congress nominee Surinder Kaur, officials said on Saturday.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 09:32 AM

  AAP candidate for the Jalandhar West assembly bypoll Mohinder Bhagat was leading against his nearest rival and Congress nominee Surinder Kaur, according to initial trends.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 09:31 AM

  Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife and Congress candidate for the Dehra assembly bypoll Kamlesh Thakur was trailing by 557 votes against the BJP's nominee for the seat on Saturday, officials said.

  
• 13 Jul 2024, 09:30 AM

  The BJP and the Congress are locked in a straight fight on most of the seats while TMC and DMK are also in the fray. A voter turnout between 63 percent and 75 percent was recorded in the bypolls in three assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh.