After Lok Sabha elections, 10 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will go for byelections since the seats got vacant after the then-incumbent MLAs contested the general elections.
The upcoming byelections in Uttar Pradesh on 10 Assembly seats are going to be crucial as it would be the first major election after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections.
After the conclusion of Lok Sabha elections, results of which were not the desired ones for the BJP, the state is going witness another crucial polls -- byelections on 10 seats -- that are left vacant after incumbent MLAs contested the Lok Sabha elections.
This was also the first major meeting of the state cabinet ministers after the Lok Sabha polls, in which the party won 33 seats, down from 62 it clinched in 2019. Uttar Pradesh sends 80 members to the Lower House of Parliament.
A total of 13 candidates were in the fray in three assembly constituencies of Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh with a total number of 2,59,340 electorates and about 71 per cent polling was recorded in three assembly by-elections held on July 10.
After the 6th round of counting, the JD(U) candidate secured 32,209 votes, while independent candidate Shankar Singh got 31,708 votes, according to the latest information uploaded on the Election Commission's website.
Congress won Amarwara seat in the 2023 assembly elections, but the BJP's Vivek Bunty Sahu won the Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat this time by defeating Nath's son Nakul Nath. The Assembly byelection became necessary after three-time Congress MLA Kamlesh Shah crossed over to the BJP on March 29 this year.
The polling on 13 seats across seven states including West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh will take place on July 10.
By-elections for three assembly seats of Himachal Pradesh and two seats of Uttarakhand are to be held on July 11. Out of Three Himachal Pradesh seats, the Congress has declared the candidates for two seats of Nalagarh and Hamirpur in the latest list.
The DMK MLA contested the 2019 by-poll in Vikravandi following the demise of DMK's Radhamani but lost the seat. The party fielded him again in 2021 in which he defeated AIADMK's R Muthamilselvan.
Apart from West Bengal, the bypolls will also be held in Uttar Pradesh and all other states where MLA posts have become vacant after incumbent lawmakers contested in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
Himachal Pradesh Assembly by-polls: In the 2022 assembly polls, Congress had won 40 seats while the BJP got 25.BJP candidate Sudhir Sharma secured 28,066 votes in the Dharamshala assembly constituency and defeated his nearest rival Devender Singh Jaggi of Congress who got 22,540 votes.
Telangana MLC by-election: A total of 1,439 voters including municipal councillors, MPTCs, ZPTCs and ex-officio members were eligible to cast their votes. BRS had an absolute majority in local bodies as the party almost made a clean sweep in local bodies elections in 2019.
The bypoll in Nagaland's Tapi assembly seat is scheduled to coincide with the assembly election in Mizoram and the first phase of polling in Chhattisgarh.
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Uttarakhand bypoll result: Parwati Dass is the wife of Chandan Ram Das whose death in April this year necessitated the bypoll.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), BJP candidates Bindu Debnath and Tafajjal Hossain emerged victorious at Debnath and Boxanagar seats respectively.
Bypoll Results 2023: The Election Commission (EC) has declared bypoll results of seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Kerala, Tripura, and Uttarakhand. The BJP won three seats in Tripura and Uttarakhand, while SP, Congress, TMC and JMM won one seat each.
Bypolls 2023: The by-election to seven seats in six states is being seen as the first electoral test of the I.N.D.I.A Opposition bloc against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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