Byelection Results 2022: TMC triumphs both Bengal seats, ‘results a slap to BJP,’ says Babul Supriyo

RJD candidate Amar Paswan defeats BJP's Baby Kumari by a margin of 36,653 votes in Bochahan Assembly by-elections.

TMC’s Babul Supriyo wins Ballygunge Assembly seat. Supriyo defeats his nearest Left rival Saira Shah Halim by a margin of 19,904 votes.

The BJP is falling behind is all four assembly seats of Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Bihar, as well as the Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal.

Official EC trends | TMC's Shatrughan Sinha leading in Asansol Lok Sabha by-elections with 3,75,026 votes. BJP's Agnimitra Paul trailing with 2,18,601 votes. CPI(M)'s Partha Mukherjee, a distant third with 50,786 votes. Counting is still underway.

Ballygunge bypoll results after 15th round:

Babul: 40,623

CPM: 28,515

Congress: 4881

BJP: 8094

Babul’s lead: 12,108

Bochahan Bypoll Results after 17th round of counting:

Amar Paswan – RJD – 56,291
Baby Kumari – BJP – 32498
Dr Geeta Kumari – VIP – 18,665

Ballygunge Bypoll Results after 13th round:

Babul: 35,408

CPM: 26,064

Congress: 4581

BJP: 6469

Trinamool Congress workers are celebrating in Asansol as the party candidate Shatrughan Sinha is leading by 1 lakh votes against BJP’s Agnimitra Paul according to the latest round of voting.

Asansol Lok Sabha Bypoll Election Result: After 6 rounds, TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha leads by over 62,000 votes over his nearest BJP rival Agnimitra Paul

Bochahan bypoll results after 13th round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 41,257 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 22,763 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 15,371 votes

TMC candidate Babul Supriyo's lead in Ballygunge has dipped. While Supriyo has so far garnered 28,635 votes, CPM candidate Shah Halim has received 20,763 votes.

Bochahan bypoll results after eleventh round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 35,091 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 18,495 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 14,414 votes

Bochahan bypoll results after tenth round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 30,205 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 16,894 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 14,345 votes

After ninth round of counting in Bihar's Bochahan constituency, RJD candidate Amar Paswan is leading by over 11,500 votes.

Amar Paswan – RJD – 26,623 votes

Baby Kumari – BJP – 15,003 votes

Dr Geeta Kumari – VIP – 13,512 votes

TMC candidate Babul Supriyo leading by over 8,000 votes after eighth round of counting in West Bengal's Ballygunge.

Bochahan bypoll results after sixth round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 23,712 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 13,584 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 10,177 votes

Bochahan bypoll results after sixth round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 16,362 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 10,776 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 5,651 votes

Congress – Varun Chaudhary – 301 votes

Fifteen candidates are in the fray for the Kolhapur North constituency assembly seat in Maharashtra. The seat fell vacant after the death of Congress’s Chandrakant Kadam in December 2021. Congress has fielded Kadam’s wife Jayashree and BJP has Satyajit Shivaji Kadam — nephew of party spokesperson Dhananjay Mahadik as its candidate. 

Bochahan bypoll results after fifth round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 12,431 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 9,599 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 4,027 votes

Congress – Varun Chaudhary – 237 votes

Bochahan bypoll results after fourth round of counting:

RJD – Amar Paswan – 9,447 votes

BJP – Baby Kumari – 8,493 votes

VIP – Dr Geeta Kumari – 3,426 votes

Congress – Varun Chaudhary – 207 votes

As per initial trends, TMC's Shatrughan Sinha is leading BJP's Agnimitra Paul by over 10,000 votes. In Ballyginge, TMC's Babul Supriyo is leading.

Bochahan Bypoll Results: RJD candidate Amar Paswan takes over BJP's baby Kumari in second round of counting, leads by 566 votes.

Bochahan Bypoll Results: BJP candidate Baby Kumari is currently leading the race with 2,998 votes. RJD's Amar Paswan has so far garnered 2,445 votes. VIP's Dr Geeta has received only 984 votes.

For the bypoll in Khairagarh assembly constituency seats, the ruling Congress and opposition BJP are locked in a straight fight. A total of 10 candidates are in the fray. The bypoll was necessitated following the death of JCC (J) legislator and former MP Devvrat Singh last November.

The seat, which falls in the Rajnandgaon district, had witnessed a triangular contest in the 2018 assembly polls when the late Ajit Jogi-led JCC (J) had entered the poll arena. Khaiargarh was among the five seats won by the JCC in the 90-member state assembly.

However, political commentators feel this time the fight is virtually between the ruling Congress and opposition BJP as the JCC (J) has lost its appeal after the demise of Ajit Jogi in 2020.

In the by-election to the Bochahan assembly seat in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, a total of 2.90 lakh voters will decide the fates of 13 candidates, three of them women. 

By-poll to the seat was necessitated by the death of MLA Musafir Paswan, who had won on the ticket of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of Bollywood set designer-turned-politician Mukesh Sahani.

Sahani, who initially wanted to field the deceased MLA’s son Amar, recently lost his ministerial berth, and subsequently the trust of his prospective candidate. Amar jumped ship and is now in the fray as the candidate of the RJD, which his father had defeated to win the seat. 

Sahani has now fielded Gita Devi, whose father Ramai Ram was the RJD candidate in the 2020 assembly polls.

The BJP, the former benefactor of Sahani which now seeks to prove a point after having got his scalp, has fielded Baby Kumari who enjoys the image of a giant killer in the constituency. 

She had won the seat in 2015, contesting as an Independent, defeating Ramai Ram who had represented Bochahan multiple times and on tickets of various parties. 

Also in the fray are the Congress, which appears to have been dumped by the RJD for good, four Independents and candidates of lesser parties, including AIMIM of Asaduddin Owaisi.

For Sahani, who risks losing his legislative council seat in a few months, the hustings are an occasion to prove his own political mettle, away from the protective shadow of a bigger player.

For the BJP, a win will bring the assurance that the unceremonious expulsion of Sahani, its former protg who uses the nickname “son of Mallah”, has not resulted in a backlash from the OBCs.

The RJD, which showed unmistakable signs of resurgence but fell short of the finishing line in the assembly elections, will be banking on its own formidable support base.