The counting of ballots for seven assembly seats across six states is concluded, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 2 seats in Tripura and 1 in Uttarakhand.
The opposition block I.N.D.I.A won in Jharkhand’s Dumri, West Bengal’s Dhupguri, and Kerala’s Puthuppally.
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BJP won both seats in Tripura, namely Dhanpur and Boxanagar. The Trinamool Congress (TC) took the Dhupguri Assembly seat from the BJP.
In the Dumri assembly by-election, Bebi Devi of the JMM defeated Yashoda Devi of the NDA by a margin of over 17,000 votes. In Uttarakhand, Parwati Dass, a BJP candidate, secured the Bageshwar Assembly seat for the party. The Samajwadi Party won over BJP in the Ghosi Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh, signaling a setback for the saffron party.
The by-elections are a crucial test for the opposition bloc INDIA against the BJP-led NDA. The INDIA alliance displayed a unified front in some by-elections, particularly in Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh and Dumri in Jharkhand.
Bypoll Results 2023: Opposition block INDIA won the round by 4:3
Results of Bypoll election 2023: First Round India vs NDA
At centers established in the relevant states on Friday, the counting of ballots for the seven assembly seats across six states going up for by-election on Tuesday of last week started at 8 A.M. on 8th Sept 2023.
The BJP won the seats in Tripura and Uttarakhand, while the opposition won in Jharkhnd’s Dumri, West Bengal’s Dhupguri, Ghosi Uttar Pradesh, and Kerala’s Puthuppally.
BJP won both seats in Tripura
The Election Commission (EC) announced that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) triumphed in the Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly seats in Tripura’s Sepahijala district. By 30,237 votes, Tafajjal Hossain of the BJP won the Boxanagar seat. A BJP candidate, Bindu Debnath, won the Dhanpur seat by 18,871 votes.
Chandy Oommen outperformed his rival
Chandy Oommen, a candidate for the Congress party and the son of former chief minister Oommen Chandy, won the by-election in Puthuppally, Kerala, by a record margin of 36,000 votes.
The Trinamool Congress took the Dhupguri Assembly seat
After the outcome of the Bengali election kept swinging back and forth between the two parties during counting, the Trinamool Congress took the Dhupguri Assembly seat from the BJP. TC won the Dhupguri assembly seat in West Bengal by more than 4,300 votes over the BJP.
Dumri assembly by-election
Bebi Devi of the JMM, an ally of India, defeated Yashoda Devi of the NDA in the Dumri assembly by-election by a margin of more than 17,000 votes.
BJP candidate secured the Bageshwar
Parwati Dass, a BJP candidate, defeated Basant Kumar, a Congress candidate, by more than 2,400 votes to secure the Bageshwar Assembly seat for the party in Uttarakhand.
INDIA is won in Ghosi
The Samajwadi Party won against the ruling BJP in the Ghosi Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh, signaling a setback for the latter.
Following the completion of the 17th round of voting in the Ghosi assembly by-election in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, candidate Sudhakar Singh of the Samajwadi Party increased his lead over BJP challenger Dara Singh Chauhan to 22,923 votes. Singh obtained 66,707 votes, while Chauhan got 43,784 votes, according to the Election Commission (EC).
The critical test for the opposition bloc INDIA
With impacts for the forthcoming state elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, these by-elections serve as a crucial test for the opposition bloc INDIA against the BJP-led NDA. The INDIA alliance displayed a unified front in some by-elections, notably Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh and Dumri in Jharkhand.
India vs NDA: 6 States , 7 seats
The seven seats are in the states of Jharkhand’s Dumri, Kerala’s Puthuppally, Tripura’s Boxanagar and Dhanpur, Uttar Pradesh’s Ghosi, Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar, and West Bengal’s Dhupguri. The deaths of the incumbent MLAs in five seats necessitated by-elections, and two other MLAs resigned from their positions.
Out of these seven seats, the BJP formerly held three, and the Samajwadi Party, CPI(M), JMM, and Congress previously had one each.
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