As votes were tabulated on Saturday for the by-elections held earlier this week, trends on the EC website showed that the Indian bloc parties had won four assembly seats and were leading on six. The BJP secured one seat, and an Independent led on one.
Bypolls for thirteen assembly seats were conducted on Wednesday in the following states: Madhya Pradesh (1), Tamil Nadu (1), Uttarakhand (2), West Bengal (4), Punjab (1), and Himachal Pradesh (3).
AAP, DMK, TMC, and Congress are some of the INDIA bloc parties that have entered candidates for the by-elections.
In Punjab, Mohinder Bhagat of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the state won the Jalandhar West seat by defeating his nearest rival and BJP nominee Sheetal Angural by a margin of 37,325 votes, the Election Commission (EC) said.
The seat fell vacant after Angural resigned as the AAP legislator and joined the BJP in March.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the victory with a big lead in the seat shows that the people of the state are "very happy" with his government's work.
According to the website, Anniyur Siva of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) defeated Anbumani C of the PMK by 58,785 votes in the Vikravandi assembly seat in Tamil Nadu.
In the Raiganj assembly seat, Krishna Kalyani of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) defeated Manas Kumar Ghosh of the BJP by a margin of 50,077 votes; in Ranaghat Dakshin, Mukut Nami Adhikari defeated Manoj Kumar Bsiwas of the BJP by 74,485 votes; and in Bagda, Madhuparna Thakur defeated Binay Kumar Biswas of the BJP by 74,251 votes.
The EC reports that TMC's Supti Pandey defeated BJP's Kalyan Choubey by 47,827 votes in the state's Maniktala seat.
In the Dehra assembly election, Congress candidate Kamlesh Tahkur, the wife of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, defeated Hoshiyar Singh of the BJP by a margin of 9,399 votes.
In Nalagarh, Congress' Hardeep Singh Bawa won against BJP's KL Thakur by 25,618 votes.
The BJP won the Hamirpur seat with its candidate Ashish Sharma polling 27,041 votes against Congress' Pushpinder Verma 25,470 votes, the website showed. The Congress' candidates for the Badrinath and Manglaur bypolls -- Lakhpat Singh Butola and Qazi Nizamuddin -- in Uttarakhand were leading in both seats, according to the poll panel.
BJP's Rajendra Bhandari was trailing by 5,224 votes in Badrinath, while in Manglaur, BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana was in second spot and BSP's Ubaidur Rahman at third.
In Madhya Pradesh's Amarwar seat, BJP's Kamslesh Pratap Shahi was leading by 3,252 votes against Congress' Dheeran Shah Invati, while in Bihar, JD(U)'s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal was trailing by 8,204 votes against Independent candidate Shankar Singh in Rupauli, the EC website showed.
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