The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party won two seats each out of the eight constituencies where the counting of votes for the Assembly bye-elections took place on Friday.
The Aam Aadmi Party, Mizo National Front, Peoples Democratic Party and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha won one seat each.
The Congress’ Pramod Jain won in Rajasthan’s Anta and Naveen Yadav V clinched the Jubilee Hills seat.
BJP candidate Devyani Rana secured a win in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nagrota, while the party’s candidate Jay Dholakia won in Odisha’s Nuapada.
The Peoples Democratic Party’s Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi defeated the National Conference’s Aga Syed Mahmood Al-Mosavi in Budgam, which had been a National Conference bastion since 1977.
The Mizo National Front’s R Lalthangliana won in Mizoram’s Dampa.
In Jharkhand, Somesh Chandra Soren from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a Congress ally, won from Ghatsila.
The polling in the eight constituencies in seven states took place on Tuesday. The results are not expected to lead to significant changes to the composition of the Legislative Assemblies.
The polls in Budgam were necessitated after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah resigned from the seat. During the Assembly polls in October 2024, besides Budgam, Abdullah had won from Ganderbal, which he retained.
In Nagrota, the bye-polls were scheduled following the death of BJP MLA Devender Singh Rana in late October 2024. MLA Ramdas Soren died in Jharkhand’s Ghatsila.
In Jubilee Hills, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA Maganti Gopinath died in June, Kashmir Singh Sohal in Tarn Taran, Lalrintluanga Saila in Dampa and Rajendra Dholakia in Nuapada.
The bye-polls in Rajasthan’s Anta were necessitated after Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Kanwarlal Meena was disqualified after being convicted in a criminal case.
The provisional voter turnout in Nagrota was 75%, Budgam 50%, Ghatsila 74.6%, Dampa 82.3%, Nuapada 79%, Tarn Taran 60.9%, Anta 80.3% and Jubilee Hills 48.2%.
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