By-Election Results Latest News: The BJP has taken a massive drubbing in the by-elections to four Lok Sabha seats including politically-crucial Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, and 10 assembly constituencies whose results were out today. The Lok Sabha seats which went for polls were: Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra; the politically-crucial Kairana Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and Nagaland parliamentary constituency.The by-elections were held in Legislative Assemblies of Shahkot (Punjab), Tharali (Uttarakhand), Ampati (Meghalaya), Chengannur (Kerala), Jokihat (Bihar), Gomia (Jharkhand), Silli (Jharkhand), Maheshtala (West Bengal), Noorpur (Uttar Pradesh), Palus Kadegaon (Maharashtra).  The BJP retained Maharashtra's Palghar Lok Sabha seat but is trailing behind in Bhandara-Gondia. It has virtually lost the crucial Kairana Lok Sabha seat and the Noorpur assembly seat.

Opposition parties appeared winning 11 bypolls, limiting the saffron party and its allies to just three, out of four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats across 11 states -- riding high on strengthening non-BJP unity in run-up to the 2019 general elections.

The results are a proof that the united opposition's exertion of all its strength has in real terms paid off. The elections to these seats were held on May 28.

By-Election Results 2018: All That Happened

  • Lok Sabha bypoll results appeared equally divided at 2-2 between the BJP-plus-allies and the opposition parties. The BJP has lost high-profile Kairana Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra. However, BJP retained Maharashtra's Palghar Lok Sabha seat. The fourth Lok Sabha seat, Nagaland, went in favour of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), a BJP allly in the north eastern state.

  • Figures for the 10 assembly bypolls came as a big setback for the ruling party which could manage just one (in Uttarakhand), while Congress bagged three (in Meghalaya, Karnataka and Punjab's Shahkot) and others got six -- JMM got two in Jharkhand, while CPI (M), SP, RJD and Trinamool one each in Kerala, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, respectively.









  • Want to congratulate Laluji & Tejashwi (RJD) and other party leaders who have won. There will be a political alliance in future as well. We will continue to exert pressure on the government: RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary.


IN PICS: RLD workers celebrate after BJP suffers humiliating loss in Kairana bypoll

  • We lost because opposition parties united viciously. results won't impact 2019 general elections: UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma .








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  • SP ahead in UP's Noorpur Assembly seat by 9581 votes.

  • BJP's Gavit Rajendra Dhedya leading by 22000 votes from #Palghar Lok Sabha seat after 16th round of counting.

  • Communist party of India-Maxist candidate Saji Cherian won the Chengannur Assembly bypoll in Kerala with a record margin of over 18,000 votes, a poll official said.




ALSO READ: Kairana: Closer to victory RLD's Tabassum attacks BJP, says people do not want to get polarised

  • We won the RR Nagar seat with huge margin, the people of Bengaluru have blessed us- Dinesh Gundu Rao, Congress on trends showing Party leading from RR Nagar, Karnataka

  • Uttarakhand: BJP leading by 1092 votes from #Tharali assembly seat in ninth round of counting

  • Nagaland Lok Sabha by-poll: BJP ally Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leading over Naga People's Front (NPF) by over 14,000 votes.

  • Bihar: RJD leading with 16299 votes from Jokihat assembly seat after 14th round of counting

  • In Nagaland - NDPP is in the lead with 112337 votes, with NPF trailing with 87642 votes.






ALSO READ: RJD leads by over 10,000 votes in Bihar's Jokihat Assembly seat

  • Jharkhand: JMM's Seema Devi leading by 296 votes from Silli assembly seat in the sixth round of counting

  • Uttarakhand: Congress leading by 198 votes from Tharali assembly seat in fifth round of counting

  • WB: TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 32,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after tenth round of counting

  • Kerala: CPI-M leading by 9359 votes from Chengannur assembly seat

  • Noorpur Assembly by-poll: Samajwadi Party leading by over 5100 votes in the 14th round of counting

  • Congress is leading from Meghalaya's Ampati Assembly constituency.

  • WestBengal: TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 33,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after tenth round of counting, BJP second.

  • Maharashtra: NCP leading by 3959 votes from Bhandara–Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency in fourth round of counting


ALSO READ: Jharkhand by-polls: BJP leading in Gomia, JMM in Silli

  • Karnataka: Congress candidate Muniratna leading by around 44000 votes from Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency after ninth round of counting

  • Punjab: Congress leading by 18000 votes from Shahkot assembly seat after eight round of counting

  • BJP candidate Madhavlal Singh is leading over his nearest JMM rival Babita Devi by 2600 votes
    in Gomia Assembly seat after fifth round of counting, EC sources told news agency PTI.

  • Congress candidate ahead in Ampati (Meghalaya)

  • Congress leading by 16,00 votes after 7th round of counting in Punjab's Shahkot assembly seat.





  • Karnataka: Congress candidate Muniratna leading by over 18000 from Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency after fourth round of counting

  • West Bengal: TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 20,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after sixth round of counting. CPI(M) is second, BJP third.

  • Kerala: CPIM leading with 3106 votes from Chengannur assembly seat




  • BJP's Gavit Rajendra Dhedya leading from Palghar Lok Sabha seat by over 6000 votes




ALSO READ: Karnataka bypoll: Congress candidate establishes early lead in RR Nagar assembly seat



  • Bahujan Vikas Aghadi is behind BJP in Palghar Lok Sabha seat. Shiv Sena is currently third in the counting race

  • BJP leading in Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha seat of Maharashtra





  • BJP’s Mriganka Singh is trailing behind her SP-RLD rival Tabassum Hasan by 13,000 votes in Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll

  • BJP's Gavit Rajendra Dhedya leading from Palghar Lok Sabha seat.







  • BJP ahead in Palghar

  • Karnataka: Early trends indicate Congress leading in Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency seat

  • CPM candidate Saji Cheriyan is leading from the Chengannur Assembly seat in Kerala

  • BJP’s Mriganka Singh is leading over her SP-RLD rival Tabassum Hasan by 46 votes in Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll

  • West Bengal: TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 10,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after second round of counting.




ALSO READ: Counting underway for Kerala by-polls, CPI-M candidate takes early lead

  • Punjab: Congress candidate Laddi Sherowalia leading by around 2000 votes in first round of counting for Shahkot assembly-by poll

  • Samajwadi Party takes lead in the Noorpur assembly constituency. Initial trends showed BJP ahead of others in the constituency.





  • Counting of votes begins for 4 Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies





  • Counting likely to begin for Shahkot Assembly constituency in Punjab shortly.





  • The counting of the votes likely to begin at 8 AM




The Kairana result will be a litmus test for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a positive outcome is necessary for the saffron party to maintain its majority in the Lok Sabha. It was a joint opposition versus the ruling BJP. The constituency fell vacant after the death of BJP MP Hukum Singh, whose daughter Mriganka Singh is now the party's candidate for the bypoll. She is fighting Rashtriya Lok Dal's (RLD) Tabassum Hasan, who is supported by the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

In Maharashtra's Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya, all four major parties - the BJP, Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress left no stone unturned to woo the electorates in their favour.

In Nagaland Neiphiu Rio of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party was the representative of the lone Lok Sabha constituency in Nagaland. Rio, who represented this constituency, quit in February to contest in the assembly election. Rio is the Chief Minister of Nagaland.