The results for the bypolls to seven Assembly seats in six States were declared on September 8. The seven seats — Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, Puthuppally in Kerala, Dhupguri in West Bengal, Dumri in Jharkhand, and Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura — went to poll on September 5.
In Tripura’s Sepahijala district, the BJP won the by-elections to the Dhanpur and Boxanagar Assembly seats by huge margins. BJP’s Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat by 30,237 votes. BJP candidate Bindu Debnath bagged the Dhanpur seat by 18,871 votes.
In Kerala, the Opposition Congress-UDF retained the Puthuppally Assembly constituency as its candidate Chandy Oommen won by a margin of more than 36,000 votes.
The ruling Trinamool Congress wrested the Dhupguri Assembly seat in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district from the BJP.
The BJP retained the Bageshwar Assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress’ Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes.
JMM candidate Bebi Devi won the byelection to the Dumri Assembly seat in Jharkhand’s Giridih district by defeating AJSU party nominee Yashoda Devi by more than 17,000 votes.
Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh on Friday defeated his BJP rival Dara Singh Chauhan in the Ghosi assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh with a margin of 42,759 votes.
(With inputs from PTI)
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