The Election Commission (EC) has declared bypoll results of seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Kerala, Tripura, and Uttarakhand. The BJP won three seats in Tripura and Uttarakhand, while SP, Congress, TMC and JMM won one seat each. The six state went to poll on 5th September. 

The BJP retained the Bageshwar Assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress’ Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes. In Uttar Pradesh,  Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh defeated his BJP rival Dara Singh Chauhan in the Ghosi assembly bypoll with a margin of 42,759 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 17,100 votes. The ruling Trinamool Congress wrested the Dhupguri Assembly seat in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district from the BJP. Trinamool Congress candidate Nirmal Chandra Roy won with a margin of  4 thousand 313 votes.

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 whereas  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 37.719  votes.