The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday secured victory on all 4 Assembly seats in West Bengal while Congress secured win on all three seats in Himachal Pradesh and is ahead in the race for Mandi.

The Trinamool candidate Udayan Guha won the Dinhata assembly seat, which was previously held by the BJP, by a margin of 1,63,005 votes. Similarly, candidate Subrata Mondal have won Gosaba assembly seat by a massive margin of 1,43,051 votes. The Trinamool also won in the Khardah and Santipur assembly segments by a margin of 93,832 and 64,675 votes, respectively.

The results shows that the BJP, which dominates the northeast, is facing setback in two of its rulling northern states Himachal Pradesh and Haryana in the bypolls for the 29 assembly and 3 Lok Sabha seats. By winning all three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh — Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai —  as well as the Mandi Lok Sabha seat, the Congress swept the Himachal and Rajasthan bypolls. While in Rajasthan, Congress won both the Dhariawad and Vallabhnagar assembly constituencies with margins of 18,725 and 20,606 votes, respectively.

However, the BJP clinched Jobat, a reserved ST seat, and the Prithvipur assembly seat and leading in the Khandwa Lok Sabha seat . The BJP and its ally UPPL have claimed victory in all five assembly seats in Assam.

In Haryana’s Ellenabad, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD’s) Abhay Chautala won with a margin of over 65,000 votes. In Bihar, the ruling JD(U) won both the Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur assembly seats.

However, the Shiv Sena have secured a win on Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha seat. It was the Sena’s first victory outside Maharashtra.

The elections were held on October 30 and it saw some high-stakes battle between the Congress and the BJP. The assembly by-elections which saw a high turnout were held in 5 seats in Assam, 4 in West Bengal, 3 each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, 2 each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and 1 seat each is in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.

Out of the 29 Assembly seats, the BJP had won in around half a dozen constituencies earlier, the Congress had 9, while the rest were with the regional parties.

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