Maharashtra By-election Results

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,

The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious in four of the seven assembly seats whose results were declared today. Uddhav Thackeray's faction won its first election after a BJP-backed coup led by Eknath Shinde split Shiv Sena.

The by-elections to 51 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha constituencies across 17 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry has thrown up a few surprises, especially in BJP-ruled Bihar and Gujarat. The BJP and its allies, which held nearly 30 of the assembly seats, ended up with 26. The Congress won 12, keeping an even tally. Asaduddin Owaisi's A...

Maharashtra and Haryana will vote for new assemblies on October 21 and the results will be out three days later, the Election Commission said on Saturday. The last date for filing nominations is October 4 and the deadline for withdrawing them is October 7. These are the first state polls after the national election, which the BJP won by a landslide...

After blowing through Karnataka, the winds of opposition unity appear to have gathered momentum in the politically critical states of UP and Maharashtra.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Voting was held for by-elections to four Lok Sabha seats, including the politically-crucial Kairana Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and 10 assembly constituencies spread across 10 states. Besides Kairana in western UP, by-elections were held in Bhandara-Gondiya and Palghar parliamentary constituencies in Maharashtra, and Nagaland Lok Sabha...

The by-election for the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held today. The seat was previously held by sitting BJP lawmaker Chintaman Wanaga. The election was necessitated after Mr Wanaga died earlier this year.

The by-election for the Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held on Monday. All main political parties have fielded their candidates for the Bhandara-Gondia by-poll

By-elections in Nagaland are being held in the Parliamentary Constituency of the state on May 28. Apart from Nagaland, other states to have by-elections on the same date are Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

Two Shiv Sena leaders were shot dead in Ahmednagar's Kedgaon area on Saturday after the results of a civic by-election was announced

The recent civic polls and by-election results in Maharashtra and Gujarat reaffirm that the Prime Minister's support has not been dented by the cash crunch and the opposition has erred badly in reading the public mood.

The BJP has followed up its success in the Maharashtra civic elections with a sweep of by-elections to local bodies in Gujarat, asserting that the wins signal the people's support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes to combat black money.

The BJP has been advised to draw lessons from its sub-par performance in by-elections today not only by its political rivals, but also members of key ally, the Shiv Sena.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is the big winner of today's round of by-elections, winning eight of 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, ten of which were previously held by the BJP and one by its ally the Apna Dal. A triumphant UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party called it a rejection of the people of "communal politics." Critic...

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,

The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious in four of the seven assembly seats whose results were declared today. Uddhav Thackeray's faction won its first election after a BJP-backed coup led by Eknath Shinde split Shiv Sena.

The by-elections to 51 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha constituencies across 17 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry has thrown up a few surprises, especially in BJP-ruled Bihar and Gujarat. The BJP and its allies, which held nearly 30 of the assembly seats, ended up with 26. The Congress won 12, keeping an even tally. Asaduddin Owaisi's A...

Maharashtra and Haryana will vote for new assemblies on October 21 and the results will be out three days later, the Election Commission said on Saturday. The last date for filing nominations is October 4 and the deadline for withdrawing them is October 7. These are the first state polls after the national election, which the BJP won by a landslide...

After blowing through Karnataka, the winds of opposition unity appear to have gathered momentum in the politically critical states of UP and Maharashtra.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Voting was held for by-elections to four Lok Sabha seats, including the politically-crucial Kairana Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and 10 assembly constituencies spread across 10 states. Besides Kairana in western UP, by-elections were held in Bhandara-Gondiya and Palghar parliamentary constituencies in Maharashtra, and Nagaland Lok Sabha...

The by-election for the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held today. The seat was previously held by sitting BJP lawmaker Chintaman Wanaga. The election was necessitated after Mr Wanaga died earlier this year.

The by-election for the Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held on Monday. All main political parties have fielded their candidates for the Bhandara-Gondia by-poll

By-elections in Nagaland are being held in the Parliamentary Constituency of the state on May 28. Apart from Nagaland, other states to have by-elections on the same date are Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

Two Shiv Sena leaders were shot dead in Ahmednagar's Kedgaon area on Saturday after the results of a civic by-election was announced

The recent civic polls and by-election results in Maharashtra and Gujarat reaffirm that the Prime Minister's support has not been dented by the cash crunch and the opposition has erred badly in reading the public mood.

The BJP has followed up its success in the Maharashtra civic elections with a sweep of by-elections to local bodies in Gujarat, asserting that the wins signal the people's support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes to combat black money.

The BJP has been advised to draw lessons from its sub-par performance in by-elections today not only by its political rivals, but also members of key ally, the Shiv Sena.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is the big winner of today's round of by-elections, winning eight of 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, ten of which were previously held by the BJP and one by its ally the Apna Dal. A triumphant UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party called it a rejection of the people of "communal politics." Critic...