By Election Results 2021 Live: Counting of votes for the 29 assembly and 3 Lok Sabha seats begins

In Dinhata, TMC’s heavyweight north Bengal leader Udayan Guha ahead of 14666 vote after second round. He is fighting to reclaim the seat which BJP had snatched from him by a whisker in polls held last April.

The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti party ahead in postal ballot in Huzurabad Assembly constituency

Besides them, one micro-observer has also been deployed at each counting table, the official said. The CEO said victory processions by candidates and their supporters have been prohibited in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Twenty-five centres have been set up for counting of votes of the Mandi parliamentary bypoll and Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai assembly bye-elections which were held on October 30. State chief electoral officer (CEO) C Palrasu said that 11 counting observers have been deputed for the Mandi seat while three general observers have been deputed as counting observers for the Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai seats.

Counting of votes for the recently held bye-elections to the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency and three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh started at 8 am on Tuesday amid tight security arrangements.

West Bengal: Results of four assembly seats -- Dinhata, Khardaha, Gosaba (SC), and Santipur -- that went into bypolls on October 30 will be announced today; visuals from Dinhata College counting centre. pic.twitter.com/5NZgErIotN

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Results of four assembly seats -- Dinhata, Khardaha, Gosaba (SC), and Santipur -- that went into bypolls on October 30 will be announced today; visuals from Dinhata College counting centre.

Counting of votes for the 29 assembly and 3 Lok Sabha seats begins

The Khandwa Lok Sabha constituency and Raigaon Assembly seat were held by the BJP, while Jobat and Prithvipur Assembly seats were with the Congress. On the eve of the counting of votes, the ruling BJP and opposition Congress claimed they will sweep all the four bypolls.

Bypolls to Dinhata and Santipur are seen as a prestige battle for the BJP, which is currently grappling with an exodus of MLAs and senior leaders. In Santipur, BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar had resigned from the Assembly.

Counting of votes for the by-elections on Mandi parliamentary constituency and Fatehpur, Jubbal-Kotkhai and Arki assembly constituencies will start from 8 am

The ruling BJP has fielded candidates in three seats leaving the other two to alliance partner UPPL. The Congress put up nominees in all five, while its former allies, the AIUDF and the BPF, are contesting in two and one seats respectively.

In Huzurabad Assembly constituency, the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti, opposition BJP and Congress locked in a triangular contest. The bye-election was held following the resignation of Eatala Rajender in June after his removal from the state Cabinet over allegations of land grabbing. Rajender, who dismissed the allegations, had quit the TRS and is contesting on a BJP ticket.

Seven-time independent MP Mohan Delkar's wife Kalaben Delkar is contesting as Shiv Sena candidate against BJP's Mahesh Gavit and Congress' Mahesh Dhodi.

It is an important contest for the Chautalas as Abhay Chautala had won the 2010 bypolls from Ellenabad when Om Prakash Chautala vacated the seat, and then retained it in 2014 and also in 2019 Assembly polls, when he was the lone INLD MLA in the House.

Chautala, son of INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala, is contesting against Congress nominee Pawan Beniwal and BJP-JP candidate Gobind Kanda, the brother of Haryana Lokhit Party chief and legislator Gopal Kanda.

The by-election to Ellenabad Assembly constituency was necessitated by the resignation of Indian INLD leader Abhay Chautala as MLA in protest against the Centre's new farm laws.

Former national footballer Eugeneson Lyngdoh is contesting the election from Mawphlang on a United Democratic Party (UDP) ticket. He is up against former Congress MLA Kennedy C Khyriem and a sitting member of the district council (MDC) from the NPP, Lamphrang Blah.

The seats where Lok Sabha bye-elections were held are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh.

The by-polls are being seen as an electoral challenge for Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai who took charge after BS Yeddiyurappa resigned from the post in July this year. Retaining Hangal is even more important for him as it is the neighbouring constituency to his Shiggaon assembly segment.

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

The voting on Saturday passed off peacefully, with as high as 80% voting registered in many of the constituencies.

The bypoll results 2021 will decide the fate of some of the most high-profile candidates such as Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Chautala, Virbhadra Singh's wife Pratibha Singh, former Telangana minister Eatala Rajender and former footballer Eugeneson Lyngdoh.

The Lok Sabha bypolls results will be declared for Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha seat, Himachal Pradesh's Mandi Lok Sabha seat and the Khandwa Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh. Elections for these Lok Sabha seats were held after the sitting MPs in these constituencies died.

The elections were held for five Assembly seats in Assam, four Assembly seats in West Bengal, three each of Madhya Pradesh Assembly seats, Himachal Pradesh Assembly seats and Meghalaya Assembly setas, two each in Bihar Assembly, Karnataka Assembly and Rajasthan Assembly and one in Maharashtra Assembly, Haryana Assembly, Andhra Pradesh Assembly, Mizoram Assembly and Telangana Assembly.