The bye-elections took place in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam and Nagrota, Rajasthan’s Anta, Jharkhand’s Ghatshila, Telangana’s Jubilee Hills, Punjab’s Tarn Taran, Mizoram’s Dampa, and Odisha’s Nuapada.
Bypolls Results Final Results
All results for the eight by-elections held on November 11 across Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Telangana have been declared. The results have given a mixed outcome for major political parties. The BJP, Congress, MNF, JMM and PDP have each secured key wins, with several contests decided by huge margins and a few delivering historic upsets.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won a seat in Nagrota in Jammu and Kashmir. Meanwhile, the Congress has won in Jubilee Hills, Telangana. In Dampa, Mizo National Front leader clinched the victory.
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The bypolls conducted on November 11 covered constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Telangana.
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In the Dampa assembly by-election, former minister R. Lalthangliana of the Mizo National Front (MNF) emerged victorious edging out Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) candidate Vanlalsailova by 562 votes.
Devyani Rana clinched a sweeping victory in the Nagrota bypoll, securing 42,350 votes and winning by a huge margin of 24,647. Stepping into her late father Devender Singh Rana’s legacy, she now becomes the new BJP MLA from Nagrota in J&K.
In Jubilee Hills, Congress’s Naveen Yadav, a leader from the Backward Classes, has won against BRS candidate Sunitha Gopinath, widow of a former legislator. BJP’s Lankala Deepak Reddy was also in the fray trying to make inroads in the constituency.
In the bye-election for the Anta Assembly constituency in Rajasthan, Pramod Jain “Bhaya” of the Indian National Congress (INC) emerged as the clear winner.
AAP’s Harmeet Singh Sandhu secured 42,649 votes, winning by 12,091 votes margin over his closest rival Sukhwinder Kaur of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Tarn Taran, Punjab.
PDP’s Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi has won the Budgam Assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir, securing 21,576 votes with a lead of 4,478 votes.
In Nuapada, Odisha BJP’s Jay Dholakia secured 1,23,869 votes, winning the bypoll by an impressive margin of 83,748 votes over his closest rival.
Similarly in Ghatisila, Jharkhand, Somesh Chandra Soren of the JMM has won the bypoll after all 20 rounds of counting. He secured 1,04,936 votes, defeating his nearest rival by a huge margin of 38,601 votes.
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