The bypolls in 13 Assembly constituencies across seven states were the first electoral exercise since the Lok Sabha polls.
The counting is currently underway for bypolls to 13 Assembly seats across seven states. The electoral exercise was the first since the Lok Sabha polls, which saw the BJP-led NDA forming the government for a third straight term.
Here are points on Assembly bypoll results 2024:
- The INDIA bloc has won one seat and is currently leading in 10 of the 13 assembly seats where bypolls were held on July 10. Polling for the Assembly byelections was held on four seats in West Bengal, three in Himachal Pradesh, two in Uttarakhand, and one each in Bihar, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
- In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is currently leading on all four seats. The ruling party won the Maniktala seat in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections while the BJP won Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, and Bagda. Later, the BJP MLAs switched to the Trinamool.
- The electoral exercise in Himachal Pradesh will decide the fate of many veterans and some debutants, including Chief Minister and Congress leader Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur from the Dehra constituency, who is currently ahead of her BJP rival Hoshyar Singh. The Congress is also leading in Nalagarh, while the BJP is ahead in Hamirpur.
- In Uttarakhand, the Manglaur constituency is witnessing a three-cornered fight in the bypoll, which was held after the death of BSP MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari in October last year. The BJP is currently trailing in Manglaur, a Muslim- and Dalit-dominated seat that has been held either by the Congress or the BSP so far. The ruling party is also trailing in Badrinath.
- The bypoll in Punjab’s Jalandhar West assembly segment has been won by AAP leader Mohinder Bhagat by more than 30,000 votes.
- The Bihar byelection was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MLA Bima Bharti, who had won the seat for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) several times in the past but quit the party recently to contest Lok Sabha elections on an RJD ticket. The JD(U) is currently ahead.
- In Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi assembly constituency, the bypoll was necessitated by the death of DMK legislator N Pughazhendhi on April 6. It is a triangular contest with ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s candidate Anniyur Siva (alias Sivashanmugam A) leading over Pattali Makkal Katchi’s (PMK) C Anbumani and Naam Tamilar Katchi’s K Abinaya.
- The by-election in the Amarwara assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh Chhindwara district was held after three-time Congress MLA Kamlesh Shah crossed over to the BJP in March. The main contest in this Scheduled Tribes-reserved seat is between the BJP, which fielded Kamlesh Shah, the Congress’s Dheeran Shah Invati, and Gondwana Gantantra Party’s (GGP) Devraman Bhalavi. Mr Shah is currently ahead.