Assembly Bypoll Result Live: Congress Wins Kerala's Nilambur AAP, BJP Bag One Seat Each In Gujarat, TMC Ahead In Bengal

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Assembly Bypoll Result Live: The Congress-led UDF candidate Aryadan Shoukath has won the Nilambur assembly by-poll in Kerala by 10,928 votes. The poll panel said Shoukath defeated M Swaraj, the candidate of the ruling CPI(M), on Monday.

Shoukath is the son of late Congress stalwart Aryadan Muhammed, while Swaraj is a state secretariat member of the CPI(M).

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Shoukath said the outcome was expected. "It was a victory anticipated by the people of Kerala - a major win against the LDF government," he said.

AAP, BJP won one seat each in Gujarat

Counting for the assembly bypolls held in five constituencies in four states - Gujarat, Kerala, West Bengal and Punjab - began on Monday. Two assembly bypolls were held in Gujarat, one each in Kerala, West Bengal, and Punjab, on June 19.

In Gujarat, Aam Aadmi Party candidate Gopal Italia won from Visavadar seat, Junagadh district. Italia, former party state president, won by a margin of 17,581 votes against BJP's Kirit Patel, with Congress candidate Nitin Ranpariya in third place.

Visavadar, historically a BJP stronghold under former chief minister Keshubhai Patel, shifted to AAP in 2022, making this a critical battle for AAP to reclaim its foothold.

In Gujarat's Kadi seat, BJP's Rajendra Chavda polled nearly 1 lakh votes to defeat Congress' Ramesh Chavda.

In Gujarat's Kadi seat, BJP's Rajendra Chavda polled nearly 1 lakh votes to defeat Congress' Ramesh Chavda. BJP candidate received 99,742 votes, the Congress leader got 60,290 in the SC reserved seat.

AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora was leading with a margin of 2,286 votes against his nearest rival and Congress nominee Bharat Bhushan Ashu from the Ludhiana West assembly seat in Punjab. After six of the 14 rounds of counting, Arora had polled 14,486 votes and Ashu 12,200 votes.

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Though Arora maintained the overall lead, Ashu led the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds of counting. The bypoll was necessitated following the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January.

TMC ahead in Bengal

The Trinamool Congress was leading by over 29,000 votes in the by-election to the Kaliganj assembly seat in West Bengal's Nadia district even as counting was underway on Monday.

It was a victory anticipated by the people of Kerala - a major win against the LDF government.

After seven rounds of counting, TMC candidate Alifa Ahamed secured 32,308 votes, while her nearest rival, Congress candidate Kabil Uddin Shaikh, backed by the CPI(M), bagged 13,144 votes. BJP nominee Ashis Ghosh was trailing in the third position, securing 11,987 votes, election officials said.

(With agency inputs)

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