Votes for the 13 by-elections held earlier this week on assembly seats in seven states were counted on Saturday. The Indian bloc parties secured 10 assembly seats, the BJP two, and an Independent one.
According to the Election Commission (EC), Mohinder Bhagat of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab defeated BJP nominee Sheetal Angural, his closest competitor, by a margin of 37,325 votes to win the Jalandhar West seat.
In Tamil Nadu, Anniyur Siva of the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won the Vikravandi Assembly seat.
In the four West Bengal seats, Mukut Nami Adhikari defeated BJP candidate Manoj Kumar Biswas by 74,485 votes in Ranaghat Dakshin, and Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Krishna Kalyani defeated BJP rival Manas Kumar Ghosh by a margin of 50,077 votes in the Raiganj assembly seat.
In the race for the Dehra assembly seat, Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, defeated Hoshiyar Singh of the BJP by a margin of 9,399 votes.
The website indicated that the BJP had won the Hamirpur seat, with Ashish Sharma receiving 27,041 votes to Pushpinder Verma’s 25,470 votes for the Congress.
According to the EC website, Independent candidate Shankar Singh won the Rupauli seat in Bihar, defeating JD(U)’s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal by a margin of 8,246 votes, while BJP’s Kamslesh Pratap Shah won the assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of 3,027 votes over Congress’ Dheeran Sah Invati.
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