By-election results 2022: TMC wins in West Bengal, RJD sweeps in Bihar
The Trinamool Congress has won huge in the Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge assembly seats, the most closely watched of the five by-elections held today. Lalu Yadav's party triumphed in Bihar, but the Congress Party won in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
FollowThe Trinamool Congress has won huge in the Asansol Lok Sabha and Ballygunge assembly seats, the most closely watched of the five by-elections held today. Lalu Yadav's party triumphed in Bihar, but the Congress Party won in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
West Bengal
The Trinamool Congress's nominee for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, won the bypoll by a significant majority, scoring the party's first-ever election win in the constituency. Trinamool's Babul Supriyo, who moved from the BJP, won the Ballygunge Assembly seat.
Mamata Banerjee has expressed gratitude to voters for a "decisive mandate" on both seats. She went on to say that the party sees this as the people's present for the Bengali New Year, which was celebrated yesterday.
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Bihar
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of Lalu Prasad Yadav has won Bihar's Bochahan Assembly segment by more than 36,000 votes. The Bochahan assembly seat in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates, became vacant after the death of MLA Musafir Paswan, who had won on the ticket of Mukesh Sahani's Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).
The death of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) leader Musafir Paswan caused a by-election to the Bochahan seat in Bihar. On April 12, a by-election was conducted.Â
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Maharashtra
In the by-election to the Kolhapur (North) assembly constituency in Maharashtra, Congress' Jayashri Jadhav easily defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Jayashri Jadhav is the wife of Chandrakant Jadhav, a local businessman who was elected to the seat in the 2019 assembly elections. Chandrakant died in December of last year as a result of problems associated to Covid-19, prompting the by-election on Tuesday.
The death of Congress MLA Chandrakant Jadhav in Maharashtra's Kolhapur North assembly district triggered a by-election. It was conducted on April 12 and had a voting turnout of 61.19 percent.Â
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Chhattisgarh
Due to the death of Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) MLA Devvrat Singh, by-poll elections were held in Chhattisgarh's Khairagarh on April 12. After three rounds of counting, Yashoda Verma of the Congress is beating his nearest challenger Komal Janghel of the BJP by a margin of 1,242 votes.
