Election Results for the Assembly by Polls 2024 LIVE UPDATES: Today, July 13, the votes for a total of 13 seats in India’s seven states are currently being counted. On Wednesday, July 10, bypolls were conducted in thirteen Assembly constituencies. This was the first election since the Lok Sabha votes of 2024, and the outcome is expected to affect the political trajectory of both the government and opposition parties in the state. To fill the seats left empty by the resignations or deaths of sitting members, by-elections were conducted in West Bengal (4 seats), Himachal Pradesh (3 seats), Uttarakhand (2 seats), Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, and Punjab (1 seat each).
West Bengal Leads for TMC
According to the Election Commission website, Trinamool Congress candidates led their opponents in bypolls that were held in four assembly seats in West Bengal. Counting started on Saturday morning. On July 10, bypolls were conducted for the assembly seats in Maniktala, Bagda, Ranaghat Dakshin, and Raiganj.
In Maniktala, Kolkata, TMC’s nominee Supti Pandey was beating her closest competitor, BJP’s Kalyan Chaubey, by 8,627 votes, while in Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur district, Trinamool Congress candidate Krishna Kalyani was leading the saffron camp’s Manas Kumar Ghosh by 21,393 votes. Madhuparna Thakur of the TMC was leading Binay Kumar Biswas of the BJP by 12,444 votes in the Bagda assembly seat in the North 24 Parganas district. In Ranaghat Dakshin, North 24 Parganas, TMC candidate Mukut Mani Adhikari received 2,139 more votes than BJP candidate Manoj Kumar Biswas.
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In Uttarakhand’s Manglaur and Badrinath seats, the Congress is leading
According to officials, the Congress candidates in Uttarakhand’s assembly bypolls for Badrinath and Manglaur were leading in both seats after the first round of counting on Saturday.
According to the officials, Qazi Nizamuddin of the Congress defeated Ubaidur Rahman of the BSP in Manglaur by 2,093 votes in the third round of counting. Kartar Singh Bhadana of the BJP was ranked third in Manglaur, a seat that Nizamuddin had previously won three times. According to them, Lakhpat Singh Butola of the Congress was ahead of Rajendra Bhandari of the BJP by 963 votes in Badrinath. Voter tallying for the Wednesday by-election started at 8 a.m.
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Candidates of the INDIA bloc parties—Congress, AAP, TMC, and DMK—led in 11 of the 13 assembly seats where bypolls were held earlier this week on Saturday, according to counting trends on the Election Commission (EC) website. BJP and JD(U) led in one seat each. The JD(U), the BJP’s alliance partner in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led in Rupauli, Bihar, while the BJP led in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. On Wednesday, voters cast ballots in the by-elections in Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar.
AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat wins Jalandhar West assembly bypoll by defeating BJP’s Sheetal Angural by margin of over 37,000 votes: Officials
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 13, 2024
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In the Himachal chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife’s seat, it’s a tie.
The Dehra assembly by-poll in Himachal Pradesh is a close race, with Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur, who is running for office for the first time, ahead by a narrow margin, according to trends from Saturday’s sixth round of counting.
In the seats of Hamirpur and Nalagarh, the Congress has also been in the lead. Currently leading Hoshiyar Singh, the BJP’s nominee, by 1,815 votes is Kamlesh Thakur. With Chief Minister Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur contesting for office for the first time from Dehra in the Kangra district, the stakes are high. On Wednesday, voting in the seats of Dehra, Hamirpur, and Nalagarh was reported at a rate of up to 70.7%.
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#WATCH | Bye Election to Assembly Constituencies: Congress workers and supporters celebrate in Dhaliara, Kangra as the party’s candidate is leading on Dehra Assembly seat
Kamlesh Thakur, wife of Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is party’s candidate from the Dehra… pic.twitter.com/hFEgyPJiNJ
— ANI (@ANI) July 13, 2024
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