BJP Secures Four Seats In Assembly Bypolls 2022
India's Bharatiya Janata Party secured the majority of seats in the by-elections that were conducted in seven constituencies across six Indian states.
The country's ruling party secured four seats out of the seven, while Rashtriya Janta Dal won one seat and Shiv Sena-Uddhav secured one. Telangana Rashtra Samithi secured one seat.
Before the polls, which took place on Nov. 3, BJP held three seats, the Congress two while the Shiv Sena and the Rashtriya Janta Dal had one each.
The BJP retained its foothold in Gola Gokrannath in Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar in the BJD-ruled Odisha.
Meanwhile, just one party couldn't secure both constituencies in Bihar. The assembly polls of Mokama and Gopalganj were the first electoral test for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who left his alliance with BJP to form government again with support from Lalu Prasad-led RJD.
BJP's Kusum Devi won in Bihar's Gopalganj, against RJD's Mohan Prasad Gupta, while RJD's Neelam Devi won against BJP's Sonam Devi in Mokama constituency of Bihar.
Meanwhile, Rutuja Latke, the wife of late Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke, whose demise necessitated the by-poll in Andheri East constituency, secured the seat by a margin of 64,959 votes.
Key Highlights
BJP's Suryabanshi Suraj won against BJD's Abanti Das in Dhamnagar, Odisha by a margin of 9,881 votes.
BJP 's Aman Giri won against SP's Vinay Tiwari in Gola Gokrannath, U.P. with a margin of 34,298 votes.
Rutuja Latke, the wife of late Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke, won the by-election from Andheri East by a margin of 64,959 votes.
BJP's Kusum Devi won against RJD's Mohan Prasad Gupta by a margin of 1,794 votes in Bihar's Gopalganj.
BJP's Bhavya Bishnoi won against INC 's Jai Prakash Harikesh by a margin of 15,740 votes in Adampur, Haryana.
RJD's Neelam Devi won by a margin of 16,741 votes against BJP's Sonam Devi in Mokama constituency of Bihar.
TRS' candidate Koosukuntla Prabhakar Reddy emerged victorious in the bypolls conducted in Munugode, Telangana by a margin of 10,309 votes.
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