BJP clinches most assembly bypolls, Congress wins both LS seats

The Election Commission of India on Saturday declared the results of by-polls of 48 assembly seats held across 15 states with BJP and its allies winning majority of the seats while Congress won both Lok Sabha constituencies of Wayanad in Kerala and Nanded in Maharashtra. Among the assembly bypolls, the BJP and its allies won maximum seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Rajasthan. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) also won all six seats in West Bengal, while Congress won only seven seats, including all three assembly constituencies in Karnataka.
In Kerala, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who was making her electoral debut registered a massive victory in Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll. According to the Election Commission, Priyanka Gandhi won the Wayanad bypoll by 4,10,931 votes by defeating BJP's Navya Haridas and CPI's Sathyan Mokeri. She won 6,22,338 votes against Navya Haridas' 1,09,939. Following this win, Priyanka Gandhi would join her mother, Sonia Gandhi, a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan and brother Rahul Gandhi, who represents the Rae Bareli constituency in the Lok Sabha.
In Maharashtra, Congress won the Nanded Lok Sabha by-poll. But, surprisingly the party lost all the six assembly segments in the Nanded Lok Sabha seat to the BJP and Shiv Sena.Ravindra Chavan of Congress trounced BJP's Santukrao Hambarde by 1,457 votes after a recount.
In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP won six assembly bypolls and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) won one seat, while Samajwadi Party was able to win just two seats out of nine. Following the massive win in UP by-elections. BSP's electoral slide continued in Uttar Pradesh, with the party failing to open its account in the bypolls. BSP candidates were pushed to the third spot in seven seats while in two seats, they finished a dismal fifth, below even Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) and AIMIM candidates.
In West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress made a clean sweep and won all six assembly constituencies  despite ongoing protests over the RG Kar Medical College incident.The bypolls were held in six constituencies — Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, Taldangra, Sitai (SC), and Madarihat (ST) — after the resignation of sitting MLAs who vacated their assembly seats after winning seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Five of the six constituencies are located in South Bengal, which has traditionally been a stronghold of the TMC.
In Punjab, the Aam Aadmi party won three assembly by-polls while, in Barnala, Congress' Kuldeep Singh Dhillon won. In Assam, the BJP won three seats while its allies United Peoples Party, Liberal and Asom Gana Parishad won one seat each.
In Rajasthan, the BJP won five out of the seven assembly constituencies while the Congress and the Bharat Adivasi party won one seat each.The Congress won all three assembly constituencies in Karnataka.  Similarly, in Bihar, the BJP won two seats while its allies Hindustani Awam Morcha (secular) and Janata Dal (United) won one seat each. The Indian National Congress and the Community Party of India (Marxist) won one seat each in Kerala while in Madhya Pradesh, Congress and the BJP won one seat each.
The BJP won the lone assembly seat each in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Uttarakhand while the National Peoples's Party won the lone seat in Meghalaya. In Sikkim, the Sikkim Kranti Morcha won both the assembly seats unopposed.The by-polls were held in 48 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats across 15 states.