In by-elections held on Wednesday for 13 Assembly Constituencies of seven states, the first six results have come so far from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party has won the Jalandhar west reserved assembly seat. In Himachal, ruling Congress won two seats while, BJP bagged one seats. In West Bengal, the ruling All India Trinamool Congress won Raiganj and Bagda seats Counting for remaining constituencies is underway in 7 Assembly Constituencies seats.
The AAP candidate Mohindar Bhagat won this seat by a margin of 37,325 votes. He defeated BJP candidate Sheetal Angural in the triangular contest. Akashvani correspondent reports that “In Himachal, Congress candidates Kamlesh Thakur from Dehra and Hardeep Singh Baba from Nalagarh have emerged victorious, while Ashish Sharma from BJP has won from Hamirpur.
As per Akashvani correspondent reports, in West Bengal, Krishna Kalyani from Raiganj bagged the assembly seat defeating Manas Kumar Ghosh of Bhartiya Janata Party by 36 thousand 402 votes.
In West Bengal, TMC is leading on rest three assembly seats went for by-polls. TMC candidates, Mukut Mani Adhikari from Ranaghat Dakshin, Madhuparna from Bagda and Supti Pandey is leading from Maniktala Assembly Constituency.
In Bihar, after the end of the seventh rounds of counting, independent candidate Shankar Singh is leading with a margin of over one thousand votes.
In Tamil Nadu, DMK is leading with a huge margin in the Vikravandi Assembly by poll. Anniyur Siva of the DMK has a difference of more than 40 thousand votes than his PMK rival C.Anbumani.
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