Byelection

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

Voters head to the polls on Thursday in three by-elections across England, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservatives braced for defeat in each as inflation-battered Britain's economic woes bite.

Voting for the byelection to two vacant seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council for which both the BJP and the Samajwadi Party have fielded candidates began here on Monday.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha today congratulated party candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku for inching towards victory in the Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll.

Breaching the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party's last citadel in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, ruling BJP-ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) on Saturday won the Suar assembly by-election by a margin of 8,724 votes.

The Election Commission today did not announce byelections for the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, which has fallen vacant after Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as an MP following his two-year jail sentence in a defamation case.

The Bharatiya Janata Party today retained the Chinchwad Assembly constituency in Maharashtra in a byelection as the party candidate Ashwini Jagtap won by 36,168 votes.

The assembly by-election results today brought some solace for the Congress as it wrested one seat each from the BJP and the TMC in Maharashtra and West Bengal respectively and retained a seat in Tamil Nadu with DMK's support,

Bihar's by-election for the Kurhani assembly seat has not gone in favour of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his seven-party Grand Alliance.

Counting of votes for the by-poll to Padampur assembly seat in Odisha's Bargarh district is underway on Thursday amid tight security arrangements, an official said.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday accused the BJP of shedding "crocodile tears" for the poor by telling lies and asked the saffron brigade to stop misleading the people.

The Jharkhand Police have summoned Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the December 5 Bhanupratappur bypoll in Chhattisgarh and three others who have been named as accused in a rape case in the neighbouring state.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and the BJP are locked in a straight contest, for the first time since they broke up nearly four months ago, in the by-election to Kurhani assembly seat.

The victory of Rutuja Latke in the Andheri (East) Assembly bypoll shows people are supporting Shiv Sena, party president Uddhav Thackeray said on Sunday.

BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj expanded his lead to 6,755 votes over his BJD rival Abanti Das for Dhamnagar bypoll in Odisha's Bhadrak district, Election Commission (EC) trends revealed on Sunday.

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

Voters head to the polls on Thursday in three by-elections across England, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservatives braced for defeat in each as inflation-battered Britain's economic woes bite.

Voting for the byelection to two vacant seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council for which both the BJP and the Samajwadi Party have fielded candidates began here on Monday.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha today congratulated party candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku for inching towards victory in the Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll.

Breaching the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party's last citadel in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, ruling BJP-ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) on Saturday won the Suar assembly by-election by a margin of 8,724 votes.

The Election Commission today did not announce byelections for the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, which has fallen vacant after Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as an MP following his two-year jail sentence in a defamation case.

The Bharatiya Janata Party today retained the Chinchwad Assembly constituency in Maharashtra in a byelection as the party candidate Ashwini Jagtap won by 36,168 votes.

The assembly by-election results today brought some solace for the Congress as it wrested one seat each from the BJP and the TMC in Maharashtra and West Bengal respectively and retained a seat in Tamil Nadu with DMK's support,

Bihar's by-election for the Kurhani assembly seat has not gone in favour of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his seven-party Grand Alliance.

Counting of votes for the by-poll to Padampur assembly seat in Odisha's Bargarh district is underway on Thursday amid tight security arrangements, an official said.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday accused the BJP of shedding "crocodile tears" for the poor by telling lies and asked the saffron brigade to stop misleading the people.

The Jharkhand Police have summoned Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the December 5 Bhanupratappur bypoll in Chhattisgarh and three others who have been named as accused in a rape case in the neighbouring state.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and the BJP are locked in a straight contest, for the first time since they broke up nearly four months ago, in the by-election to Kurhani assembly seat.

The victory of Rutuja Latke in the Andheri (East) Assembly bypoll shows people are supporting Shiv Sena, party president Uddhav Thackeray said on Sunday.

BJP candidate Suryabanshi Suraj expanded his lead to 6,755 votes over his BJD rival Abanti Das for Dhamnagar bypoll in Odisha's Bhadrak district, Election Commission (EC) trends revealed on Sunday.