Bypoll results highlights: Congress, TMC win in Rajasthan, West Bengal; setback for BJP

Big win for Congress in Rajasthan bypolls, setback for ruling BJP

*Raghu Sharma of Congress wins the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat, defeats BJP's Ram Swaroop Lamba by 84,414 votes.

* Congress president Rahul Gandhi hails the Congress's Rajasthan unit for its impressive show in the bypolls, calls the outcome a 'rejection' of the BJP by the people of the state, reports PTI .

* Congress's Karan Singh Yadav wins Alwar Lok Sabha seat by 1.97 lakh votes.

* West Bengal: TMC's Sajda Ahmed wins Uluberia Lok Sabha bypoll by 4.7 lakh votes

* West Bengal: TMC leads in Uluberia LS seat, gets 2.90 lakh votes, BJP on second spot with 1.1 lakh votes till now

* Rajasthan: Not a single vote cast in favour of BJP at Dudu polling booth in Ajmer LS seat

West Bengal: TMC wins Noapara bypoll by huge margin of 63,000 votes

Congress workers in jubilant mood at party headquarters in Jaipur

Rajasthan: Congress' Karan Singh Yadav leading by over 10000 votes

Rajasthan bypoll: Cong's Vivek Dhakad wins Mandalgarh assembly

Rajasthan: BJP leading with 3072 votes in Mandalgarh assembly seat

West Bengal: TMC's Sunil Singh gets 51694 votes, CPIM's Gargi Chaterjee gets 19067 votes, BJP's Sandip Banerjee gets 17688 votes and Congress's Goutam Bose gets 6138, NOTA-1866 in Noapara assembly seat

Rajasthan: Congress' Raghu Sharma leads by over 8000 votes in Ajmer LS seat

West Bengal: TMC's Sunil Singh has secured over 46000 votes and leading by 30000 votes in Noapara

West Bengal: TMC's Sunil Singh leading by 20,000-plus votes in Noapara assembly seat, CPM on second place

Rajasthan: BJP candidate Shakti Singh Hada leads by over 6000 votes in Mandalgarh assembly seat

Rajasthan: Congress leading with 7585 votes in Ajmer Lok Sabha seat

Rajasthan: Congress LS candidate Raghu Sharma leading in north Ajmer

Rajasthan: Congress leading with 9225 votes in Alwar Lok Sabha seat

Rajasthan: BJP leading with 699 votes in Mandalgarh assembly seat

West Bengal: TMC's Sunil Singh leading in Noapara by 20,000 plus votes

BJP candidate Shakti Singh Hada leading in Mandalgarh assembly seat in the first round

The BJP has taken a lead in Mandalgarh constituency

CPM and BJP fighting for second place in Noapara in West Bengal.

TMC leading in Uluberia parliamentary seat and Noapara assembly constituency

West Bengal: At Naopara Assembly seat, All India Trinamool Congress is leading

Congress leads in the first round of vote counting in all three seats in Rajasthan.

Early trends: Congress leading in Alwar and Ajmer seats.

Counting begins in the two Lok Sabha seats - Alwar, Ajmer and assembly constituency of Mandalgarh in Rajasthan.










The counting of votes for Alwar parliamentary seat will be held at the Shobaram Government Arts College, Alwar, and the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat at Government Polytechnic, Ajmer.

For the Mandalgarh assembly seat, it will be held at Government Polytechnic College, Tilak Nagar, Bhilwara, said a spokesperson of the chief electoral officer (CEO).



The counting will begin at 8 am after completing the 'mandatory verification' process.

Under the verification process, the voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) from randomly selected EVMS will be matched with the votes recorded in the EVMs to ensure that there is no anomaly.

A total of 42 candidates are in the fray for the bypolls which were held on Monday.

Ajmer and Alwar Lok Sabha constituencies saw a turnout of 65.2 and 61.86 per cent while the Mandalgarh Assembly seat registered an even higher 78.78 per cent as voting in the bypolls for these seats took place peacefully.

PCC president Sachin Pilot claimed that the Congress would bag all the three seats.

The BJP too expressed confidence that the bypoll results would be a stamp of approval for the good governance of four years of Vasundhara Raje government.

In Alwar, Jaswant Singh Yadav of BJP and Karan Singh Yadav of the Congress are the main contenders, while Raghu Sharma of Congress and BJP's Ramswaroop Lamba are in contention at Ajmer.

BJP's Shakti Singh Hada and Congress's Vivek Dhakad are vying for the Mandalgarh seat.

The bypolls to all the three seats of Rajasthan were necessitated after the sudden death of BJP MPs Sanwarlal Jat in Ajmer, Mahant Chand Nath Yogi in Alwar, and MLA Kirti Kumari in Mandalgarh. All these seats were earlier held by BJP.