In the bypoll results for 3 Lok Sabha and 29 assemly seats, spread across 13 states and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Congress gained in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan while defeated in other states. TMC make a clean sweep, In West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress has won all four seats in the state bypolls. In Himachal Pradesh, the Congress party has won three assembly seats, trumping the ruling BJP. In Bihar, the JD(U) retained the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats. The JDU won the Kusheshwar Asthan seat by a comfortable margin of over 12,600 votes. At Tarapur, the JDU candidate managed to win the bypoll by a margin of a little over 3,000 votes ahead of the RJD. In Rajasthan, the Congress won the Dhariawad and Vallabhnagar assembly constituency. In Assam, the BJP has won the Thowra, Bhabanipur, Mariani seats while its ally UPPL won the Gossaigaon seat. In Haryana, INLD’s Abhay Chautala won the Ellenabad seat, while in Mizoram, the ruling Mizo National Front won the Tuirial assembly seat.
In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress held two of the three assembly seats that went to the bypolls. The BJP held one, and also the Khandwa Lok Sabha seat. The BJP snatched one seat from the Congress and retained the Lok Sabha seat. The BJP's victory on the Jobat Assembly seat is significant. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the BJP had won this 70 per cent-tribal population seat only twice in 70 years.
In Karnataka, the ruling BJP has retained its tally but lost the assembly seat of Hangal that it had held earlier. Hangal's loss to the Congress is actually a loss of face for Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. Hangal is in Haveri, the home district of Bommai. The BJP won Sindgi, earlier held by the Janata Dal-Secular.After the bypolls, the BJP ended with seven assembly seats and the Congress eight. In the Lok Sabha bypolls, the BJP, the Congress and the Shiv Sena won one seat each. The BJP lost one, while both the Congress and the Shiv Sena gained one seat each
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