Priyanka wins Wayanad Lok Sabha seat by over 4.1 lakh votes

Jaipur: Congress candidate from Dausa Deen Dayal is leading against his nearest rival and BJP nominee Jag Mohan by a margin of 2,300 votes, Election Commission data showed on Saturday.

While Dayal polled 75,334 votes, Mohan, the brother of cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena, got 73,034, the EC website showed. Dausa is among the seven assembly seats in Rajasthan where bypolls were held on November 13. The counting of votes began at 8 am on Saturday. Currently, the 200-seat Rajasthan Assembly has 114 MLAs of the BJP, 65 of the Congress, three of the Bharat Adivasi Party, two of the Bahujan Samaj Party, one of the Rashtriya Lok Dal and eight Independents. - PTI

New Delhi: The ruling BJP and its ally RLD were leading in six of the nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh while the Trinamool Congress maintained its foothold over West Bengal and the Congress in Karnataka, according to trends available on Saturday for bypolls to 46 assembly seats in 13 states. The AAP and the Congress have won one seat each in Punjab where bypolls were held for four seats. It was a close contest in Rajasthan as the BJP, Congress and Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) candidates are leading on two seats each while an Independent was leading in Jhunjhunu.

The BJP candidates in Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh were also ahead of their rivals. The ruling NDA alliance in Bihar established lead in all four constituents and in Assam it was leading in four of the five assembly constituencies. The ruling National People's Party (NPP) in Meghalya got a boost as party candidate and chief minister's wife Mehtab Chandee Agitok Sangma won the Gambegre bypoll by a margin of over 4,500 votes. Bypolls were also held for two Lok Sabha seats in Kerala's Wayanad and Maharashtra's Nanded. In Wayanad, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was ahead of her rival while in Nanded the BJP candidate was ahead. In the bypolls to nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, which are being seen as a precursor to the 2027 assembly polls, the BJP and its ally RLD were leading in six seats while the Samajwadi Party was ahead in the remaining three, Election Commission trends showed.

The BJP was in the lead in Kundarki, Khair, Ghaziabad, Phulpur and Majhawan seats, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in Meerapur and the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Karhal, Katehari and Sisamau. In Meerapur, the RLD's Mithilesh Pal is leading against the Samajwadi Party candidate. Election results were out for two seats in Punjab where Congress candidate Kuldeep Singh Dhillon won the Barnala assembly segment while AAP candidate Ishank Kumar Chabbewal won the Chabbewal assembly seat. Reinforcing its hold over West Bengal which has been seeing prolonged protests over the RG Kar Medical College incident, the ruling TMC won three seats, wresting the key Madarihat seat from the BJP, and took unassailable leads in three others across all six assembly constituencies where bypolls were held.

In Karnataka, the ruling Congress was ahead in all three seats of Channapatna, Shiggaon and Sandur. In neighbouring Kerala, Congress-led UDF candidate Rahul Mamkootathil extended his lead by over 15,000 votes in Palakkad assembly bypoll while ruling LDF candidate U R Pradeep extended his lead by over 11,000 votes in Chelakkara. Madhya Pradesh saw the Congress candidate leading by 4,747 votes in Vijaypur assembly seat, while the BJP candidate was ahead in Budhni constituency by 5,362 votes. In Chhattisgarh, BJP candidate Sunil Kumar Soni was leading by 20,629 votes over his Congress rival Akash Sharma in Raipur City South assembly bypoll while in Gujarat, Congress candidate Gulabsinh Rajput widened his lead by 13,978 votes over his BJP rival Swarupji Thakor.

The assembly bypolls were held in nine seats in Uttar Pradesh, seven seats in Rajasthan, six seats in West Bengal, five seats in Assam, four seats each in Punjab and Bihar, three seats in Karnataka, two seats in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala, and one seat each in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya. - PTI

Bhopal: The Congress is leading by 4,747 votes after 18 rounds in the bypoll in Madhya Pradesh's Vijaypur assembly seat, while the BJP is ahead in Budhni constituency by 5,362 votes after the fifth round.

The bye elections in Budhni and Vijaypur constituencies were held on November 13.

According to an election official, BJP's Ramakant Bhargava is leading by 5,362 votes against his Congress rival Rajkumar Patel in Budhni after five rounds of counting.

Bhargava was earlier trailing by 953 votes after the second round of counting.

BJP candidate and state's forest minister Ramniwas Rawat is trailing by 4,747 votes behind Congress nominee Mukesh Malhotra after 18 rounds of counting in the Vijaypur assembly seat.

The Budhni seat in Sehore district will see 13 rounds of counting, while there will be 21 rounds in Vijaypur of Sheopur district.

The bypoll in Budhni was necessitated after sitting BJP MLA and former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan was elected to the Lok Sabha from Vidisha earlier this year. The BJP stalwart was later inducted into the Union Cabinet and allocated the key agriculture portfolio.

The bypoll in Vijaypur was held after sitting Congress MLA Ramniwas Rawat resigned and joined the ruling BJP. He later became a minister in the Mohan Yadav cabinet. Rawat was then fielded by his new party against tribal leader Malhotra of the Congress in the bypoll. - PTI