AAP’s Durgesh Pathak has defeated BJP’s Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes
Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer said that AAP’s Durgesh Pathak was declared the Rajinder Nagar Assembly seat winner. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has officially been declared the winner of the Town Bardowali seat, one of the three Assembly seats won by the BJP. Meanwhile, Sudip Roy Barman of Congress has won the Agartala constituency, giving the party its sole member in the Assembly. The EC has also declared YSRCP candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy as the winner of the Atmakur constituency. In Uttar Pradesh, BJP maintains a lead on both Lok Sabha seats of Azamgarh and Rampur. Lok Sabha bypolls were held in Rampur and Azamgarh constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and Sangrur seats in Punjab. The other constituencies where Assembly bypolls were held were Rajinder Nagar in Delhi, Mandar in Jharkhand’s Ranchi district, and Atmakuru in Andhra Pradesh.
Here are the latest updates:
2.17 p.m. | Tripura bypolls
BJP wins three Assembly seats in Tripura; Congress wins Agartala
Officials said that the ruling BJP won three Assembly seats, and the Congress bagged one in the high-stakes by-elections in Tripura on Sunday. Chief Minister Manik Saha won the bypoll to the crucial Town Bardowali seat by 6,104 votes. He secured 17,181 votes, which is 51.63% of the total votes polled, as per the Election Commission. Congress candidate Sudip Roy Barman won the Agartala seat by a margin of 3,163 votes. He secured 17,241 votes, 43.46% of the total votes polled. With this victory, Roy Barman became the only Congress MLA in the Assembly after the party’s complete rout in the 2018 assembly elections.
The CPI(M) lost its citadel of Jubarajnagar to the BJP by 4,572 votes. BJP candidate Malina Debnath got 18,769 votes (51.83%), while CPI(M)‘s Shailendra Chandra Nath secured 14,197 votes (39.2%). In Surma, BJP’s Swapna Das won by a margin of 4,583 votes, securing 16,677 votes (42.34%). Her nearest rival Baburam Satnami of TIPRA Motha, got 12,094 votes (30.7%).- PTI
2.05 p.m. | Rajinder Nagar bypoll
AAP wins Rajinder Nagar bypoll
On Sunday, officials said that Aam Aadmi Party’s Durgesh Pathak defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes in the Rajinder Nagar assembly bypoll here. “All 16 rounds of counting have been completed. AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak has defeated his immediate rival Rajesh Bhatia (of BJP) by a margin of over 11,000 votes,” Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said. According to official data, AAP’s Pathak polled 40,319 votes, while his nearest rival Bhatia managed to get 28,851 votes. The victory margin was 11,468 votes.- PTI
1.50 p.m. | Rajinder Nagar bypoll
AAP candidate heads towards victory after 15th round of counting
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak seemed to be heading for a victory with a comfortable margin of nearly 11,000 votes over his immediate BJP rival Rajesh Bhatia after 15 rounds of counting on Sunday for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll, according to official data. The data showed that by the end of the 15th round, Mr. Pathak was leading with 10,911 votes over Mr. Bhatia. Mr. Pathak’s lead was 10,225 votes over BJP’s Mr. Bhatia after 14 rounds of counting, which rose to 10,911 votes after 15 games.- PTI
1.40 p.m. | Uttar Pradesh bypolls
BJP 1.40 pm lead in Rampur and Azamgarh
In a setback to the Samajwadi Party, the Bharatiya Janta Party is leading in both the Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh that voted for bypoll on June 22. In Rampur, BJP candidate Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi is leading by over 34,000 votes against SP’s Asim Raja. In a closely contested triangular contest in Azamgarh, BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua is leading by over 7,000 votes against Samajwadi Party’s Dharmendra Yadav, as per the Election Commission of India’s website at 1.30 p.m.- Anuj Kumar
1.20 p.m. | Atma1.30 pml
YSRCP wins Atmakur Assembly constituency
As per the Election Commission, YSRCP candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy has won the Atmakur Assembly constituency with a margin of 82,888 votes. BJP’s Bharath Kumar Gundlapalli fared second in the bypoll.
12.55 p.m. | Sangrur bypoll
SAD(A) candidate Simranjit Mann leads over AAP rival Gurmail Singh
SAD (Amritsar) candidate Simranjit Singh Mann was leading over his nearest AAP rival, Gurmail Singh, by a margin of over 4,500 votes from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat is witnessing a close fight between the two nominees, according to initial trends on Sunday. According to the directions available at noon, Mr. Mann has solved 2,31,985 votes, while AAP’s Gurmail Singh secured 2,27,394 votes. In most of the rounds held so far, both the contestants have been neck and neck though Mr. Mann maintained a slender lead over Mr. Gurmail.- PTI
12.40 p.m. | Uttar Pradesh bypoll
BJP 12.40 pm both Rampur, Azamgarh
After an initial lead, Samajwadi Party is now trailing on both Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats, counting for which began Sunday morning. A close contest is being witnessed between the Samajwadi Party and BJP on both teats. According to available trends, SP candidate Mohd Asim Raja, who was earlier leading, is now trailing by 5,381 votes in Rampur behind his nearest rival, Ghanshyam Lodhi of the BJP. In Azamgarh, BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ has taken a lead of 6,775 votes over SP’s Dharmendra Yadav.- PTI
12.20 p.m. | Uttar Pradesh bypoll
BJP 12.20 pmzamgarh, Samajwadi Party secures marginal information in Rampur
In a tight contest, the BJP is now leading in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha bypoll. In Rampur, the Samajwadi Party has developed a small lead over the BJP candidate. According to the Election Commission of India website, BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua leads by over 7,000 votes against Samajwadi Party’s Dharmendra Yadav. In Rampur, SP’s Asim Raja has built a lead of over 3,100 votes over BJP’s Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi.
Unlike Rampur, in Azamgarh, the contest is triangular as the Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded Guddu Jamali. Mr. Jamali is trailing at the third spot, but the counting pattern suggests that he has managed to cause some dent in the Samajwadi Party’s vote bank. So far, he has secured 27% of the votes, while Mr. Yadav has got around 34 % votes. Mr. Nirhua has won about 36 % votes.- Anuj Kumar
12.15 p.m. | Rajinder Nagar bypoll
AAP candidate leads over BJP’s by 10,000 votes after 9th round of counting
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak surged ahead with a margin of over 10,000 votes over his immediate rival, BJP’s Rajesh Bhatia, after nine rounds of counting on Sunday for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll, according to the official data. Pathak’s lead was over 5,000 votes over BJP’s Bhatia after seven rounds of counting on Sunday for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll.- PTI
12.10 p.m. | Tripura bypoll
Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha declared the Town Bardowali Assembly constituency winner.
Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha flashed a victory sign on June 26, 2022.
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BJP candidate Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha has been declared the winner of the Town Bardowali Assembly constituency, winning by 6,104 votes. He defeated his nearest rival, Ashish Kumar Saha of Congress. Sudip Roy Barman of Congress has been officially declared the winner in the Agartala constituency. Congress will now have a sole member in the Assembly after its complete rout in the 2018 Assembly elections.
CPI(M)-led left front candidates scored third in both seats.
Trinamool Congress candidates ended dismal fourth and lost deposits.- Syed Sajjad Ali
11.58 a.m. | Rajinder Nagar bypoll
AAP candidate leads over BJP’s by 5,000 votes after 7th round of counting
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak galloped ahead with over 5,000 votes over his immediate rival, BJP’s Rajesh Bhatia, after seven rounds of counting on Sunday for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll, according to the official data. Numbers showed that at the end of the sixth round of counting, Mr. Pathak led over Mr. Bhatia by a margin of nearly 3,000 votes, which rose to over 5,000 by the end of the seventh round. Mr. Pathak led the tally over Mr. Bhatia by a margin of over 1,000 votes by the end of the fifth round of counting.- PTI
11.55 a.m. | Atmakur bypoll
YSRCP nominee leads by 12,863 votes after three rounds of counting
YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) candidate Mekapati Vikram Reddy established a comfortable lead of 12,863 votes after three rounds of counting of votes polled in the June 23 by-election to Atmakur Assembly seat, amid tight security in SPSR Nellore district on Sunday. The YSRCP candidate, brother of deceased sitting MLA and Industries and Information Technology Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy, polled 15,582 votes, and his nearest Bharatiya Janata Party rival G. Bharat Kumar Yadav, 2719 votes. Bahujan party candidate Obulesu got 485 votes.
11.40 a.m. | Mandar bypoll
In a close contest, BJP leads in the Mandar bypoll in Jharkhand.
BJP candidate Gangotri Kujur was leading marginally as votes were being counted for the Mandar by-election in Jharkhand’s Ranchi district on Sunday, officials said. After two rounds of counting, Kujur led by 112 votes against her nearest rival in the Congress. They said she secured 8,041 votes, while Congress candidate Shilpi Neha Tirkey got 7,929 votes.
AIMIM-backed Independent candidate Dev Kumar Dhan got 3,048 votes.- PTI
11.29 a.m. | Rajinder Nagar bypoll
AAP’s lead over BJP in the fifth round of counting reduces to over 1,000 votes
On Sunday morning, AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak was leading over his BJP rival Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 1,000 votes at the end of the fifth round of counting votes for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll. At the beginning of the counting, Pathak was leading with over 1,500 votes, but the lead margin was reduced to 1,153 by the end of the fifth round as the counting of votes began on Sunday morning. After the fifth round of counting, Mr. Pathak had secured nearly 50% of the votes counted, according to official data shared by authorities.- PTI
11.25 a.m. | Tripura bypoll
BJP leads in 3 seats, Congress in 1
Election staff members with an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) during the counting of votes of the Tripura Assembly by-elections at a counting center in Agartala on June 26, 2022.
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BJP candidates, including Chief Minister Manik Saha, were ahead in three seats, while the Congress was leading in one Assembly constituency as votes were counted in Tripura. Mr. Saha led the Town Bardowali seat by 4,363 votes after six rounds of counting. He has got 12,556, while his nearest rival, Asish Kumar Saha of the Congress, secured 8,193 votes, as per data provided by the Election Commission.
In the Agartala seats, Congress candidate Sudip Roy Barma led by 3,202 votes after eight rounds of counting. He secured 17,241 votes, while Ashok Sinha of the BJP got 14,039. The CPI(M) was trailing in its traditional bastion of Jubarajnagar to the BJP. After eight rounds of counting, BJP candidate Malina Debnath led by 4,320. She secured 18,381 votes, while her nearest candidate Shailendra Chandra Nath of the CPI(M), got 14,061 votes. The BJP was also leading in Surma, with its candidate Swapna Das ahead by 1,806 votes after two rounds of counting. She got 4,457 votes, while CPI(M)‘s Anjan Das secured 2,651 votes.- PTI
10.50 a.m. | Sangrur bypoll
SAD (Amritsar) candidate Simranjit Singh Mann continues to lead
Simranjit Singh Mann of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) led with 4,831 votes, securing 1,35,700 votes by 10:40 am. Gurmail Singh of the ruling Aam A10:40 party is trailing and has got 1,30,869 votes, according to the Election Commission of India.- Vikas Vasudeva
10:45 am | Uttar Pradesh
SP candidates leading in Rampur and Azamgarh
The Samajwadi Party candidates were leading in both Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats, counting for which began Sunday morning. According to available trends, SP candidate Mohd Asim Raja has a lead of over 9,987 votes in Rampur over his nearest rival, Ghanshyam Lodhi of the BJP. In Azamgarh, SP’s Dharmendra Yadav is leading by 4,917 votes over BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’, his nearest rival. BSP’s Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali is trailing at the third spot in Azamgarh. While in Rampur, there is a direct fight between SP and BJP, Azamgarh is witnessing a triangular contest with BSP forming the third corner. – PTI
10:20 am | Rajinder Nagar bypoll
AAP’s Durgesh Pathak leads in the first round of counting
AAP candidate Durgesh Pathak led the tally over his BJP rival Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 1,500 votes in the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll, as the counting of votes began on Sunday morning. After the first round of counting, Mr. Pathak had secured nearly 64% of the votes counted, according to official data shared by authorities. Mr. Bhatia was behind him with a 32.26% share of the votes counted in the first round. According to the official data, Congress candidate Prem Lata was trailing with a meager 2.09% vote share. – PTI
10:20 am | Uttar Pradesh
SP candidate leading in Rampur, BJP ahead in Azamgarh
The Samajwadi Party candidate was leading in the Rampur Lok Sabha seat while the BJP nominee was ahead in Azamgarh, counting for which began Sunday morning. According to available trends, SP candidate Mohd Asim Raja is leading by over 767 votes in Rampur, while BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ is leading by a margin of 2,117 votes from BSP’s Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali. The SP’s Dharmendra Yadav is in the third spot. – PTI
10:20 am | Sangrur bypoll
Early trends show SAD (Amritsar) leader Simranjit Mann leading
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) chief and candidate Simranjit Singh Mann leads from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, for which counting began on Sunday morning, according to initial trends.
The trends indicated that Mr. Mann, a former MP, is leading by a margin of 856 votes from his nearest rival and AAP candidate Gurmail Singh. Counting votes for the bypoll to Sangrur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab began Sunday morning amid tight security arrangements. – PTI
10:15 am | Uttar Pradesh
Counting of votes underway for Rampur, Azamgarh Lok Sabha bypolls
Counting votes for the bypolls to the Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh is underway on Sunday amid tight security. The counting process started at 8 a.m.
In Azamgarh, Samajwadi Party ca8 mate Dharmendra Yadav argued with security personnel over alleged denial of entry in the strongroom. Mr. Yadav alleged that “an attempt is being made to change EVMs, and that is why he was not allowed entry inside.” The SP leader was later allowed inside.
Superintendent of Police, Azamgarh, Anurag Arya, said those entitled were allowed entry after “frisking”. “There was some confusion. Now he (Dharmendra Yadav) is inside, and counting is going on smoothly,” the SP said.
The two constituencies voted on June 23, with Azamgarh recording a turnout of 49.43% and Rampur 41.39%. – PTI
10:15 am | Mandar
Counting on for Mand10:15 all in Jharkhand
Counting votes for the by-election to the Mandar Assembly seat in Jharkhand’s Ranchi district started at 8 a.m. on Sunday amid tight security, eight amor officials said. Over 61.25% of about 3.5 lakh voters exercised their franchise in the election, held on June 23, he said. The by-election was necessitated after the disqualification of Bandhu Tirkey as an MLA in the wake of his conviction in a corruption case. – PTI
10:15 am | Sangrur
Counting of votes b10:15 amr Sangrur LS bypolls
Counting votes for the Sangrur Lok Sabha bypolls was underway at 8 a.m. Sunday amid tight security arra8 amounts. The Lok Sabha seat had gone to poll on June 23, recording a low turnout of 45.30%.
The bypoll was necessitated due to the resignation of Bhagwant Mann from the Lok Sabha after he was elected as an MLA in the State Assembly elections earlier this year. Mr. Mann, the state’s chief minister now, won the Sangrur seat in the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections. – PTI
10:15 am | Tripura
Counting 10:15 Tamura bypolls underway amid tight security
Counting votes was underway for the by-elections to the four Assembly seats in Tripura on Sunday amid tight security, officials said. The counting began at 8 a.m. for the bypolls to the Agartala8 am Bardowali, Surma, and Jubarajnagar seats, held on June 23.
The votes were being counted across three centers, they added. Over 78% of 1,89,032 people had cast their ballots in the elections. Twenty-two candidates are in the fray. – PTI
June 26
Lok Sabha bypolls a crucial test for AAP, SP
The BJP is particularly hopeful of winning the Rampur seat, considering it has an equal number of Hindu and Muslim voters. It has fielded Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi, who recently joined the party. Asim Raja, handpicked by Mr. Khan, is the SP candidate. The Mayawati-led BSP is not contesting Rampur.
June 26
Counting of votes underway in 3 Lok Sabha, 7 Assembly seats
Counting votes is underway on June 26 in three Lok Sabha and seven Assembly seats spread across five States and Delhi, where bypolls were held on June 23. Counting began at 8 a.m. under multi-tier security cover8 amidst, postal ballots will be counted, and then EVMs will open.
