West Bengal Bypolls Results 2021: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday worsted its rivals by record margins, to romp home to a 4-0 clean sweep in by-elections held on October 30. The TMC wrested the Dinhata and Santipur seats in Coochbehar and Nadia districts respectively from the BJP by huge margins, to raise its tally to 215 in the 294-member West Bengal assembly.
he BJP, whose predecessor Jan Sangh was founded by Bengal’s Hindu Mahasabha leader Syama Prasad Mookerjee, saw its tally came down to 75 from an earlier 77. The ruling TMC also retained the Khardah and Gosaba assembly seats in North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas districts respectively by impressive margins. The TMC, in total, bagged 75.02 per cent of the votes cast, whereas the BJP got some 14.48 per cent votes, in the four assembly segments.
The TMC has won the bypoll in Cooch Behar district’s Dinhata and is leading with massive margins in the remaining three Assembly constituencies in West Bengal. Former TMC MLA Udayan Guha has won the Dinhata seat by a margin of 1,63,005 votes.
In West Bengal’s Gosaba, TMC is leading by 90,005 votes against BJP, after 10 rounds of counting.
In Dinhata seat, TMC’s Udayan Guha is leading with 62,847 votes against BJP’s Ashok Mondal after eight rounds of counting.
TMC is leading in all the four seats. In two seats - Dinhata and Gosaba, the party’s lead has crossed 30,000 mark.
TMC candidate Sovondeb Chatterjee is leading from Khardaha by 1200 votes after first round of counting.
In Dinhata seat, TMC’s Udayan Guha is leading by 14,666 votes against BJP’s Ashok Mondal after second round of counting. The counting of votes is underway in Bengal. TMC has got 17,758 votes while the BJP has got 3,092 votes.
In Dinhata seat, TMC’s Udayan Guha is leading by 14,666 votes against BJP’s Ashok Mondal after second round of counting. The counting of votes is underway in Bengal. TMC has got 17,758 votes while the BJP has got 3,092 votes.
In Dinhata seat, TMC’s Udayan Guha is leading by 7,652 votes against BJP’s Ashok Mondal after the first round of counting.
Early trends are expected to trickle down by 9 am.
Counting of votes begins in Dinhata, Shantipur, Khardah and Gosaba assembly constituencies