Lok Sabha Bypoll Results 2018 Live: The bye-election on four parliamentary seats were held on May 28. (Express Photo by Vishal Srivastav) Lok Sabha Bypoll Results 2018 Live: The bye-election on four parliamentary seats were held on May 28. (Express Photo by Vishal Srivastav) Electoral success continued to evade BJP in the face of an united opposition in Uttar Pradesh bypolls as the saffron party was trounced by RLD in Kairana Lok Sabha seat, while Samajwadi Party gave it the blues in Noorpur assembly constituency. RLD candidate Tabassum Hasan, who was backed by SP and Congress and tacitly supported by BSP, defeated BJP’s Mriganka Singh by over 50,000 votes. Singh, the daughter of late BJP leader Hukum Singh, whose death in February necessitated the bye-election, conceded defeat and said the alliance had emerged strong. “Many voters did vote for BJP but with a lead of some thousand votes, the alliance has won. I would like to congratulate the candidate. The alliance has emerged strong and now we have to prepare better for future,” Singh said. Read | How to check bye-election results on Election Commission of India website Meanwhile, in Mahatashtra, BJP retained the Palghar Lok Sabha seat while NCP won in Bhandara-Gondiya constituency. BJP’s Rajendra Gavit defeated his nearest rival, Shriniwas Wanga of Shiv Sena, the son of sitting MP Chintaman Vanga, whose death in January had necessitated the bypoll, by over 29,000 votes. However, Shiv Sena claimed there was discrepancy in the counting of votes in a few rounds in Palghar and demanded recounting. Sena has shot off a letter to the election officials. In Bhandara-Gondiya seat, which the BJP had won in the 2014 elections, the NCP’s Madhukar Kukade has established a lead of 16,112 votes over the BJP’s Hemant Patle. Follow Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll results 2018 LIVE Coming to the eastern region, Tokheho Yepthomi, fielded by the ruling People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA), is leading over his lone rival of the opposition NPF for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland. LIVE | Assembly Bypoll Results 2018<doc-sep>*NCP's Madhukar Kukde has won the Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha bypoll by 48,097 votes*BJP ally NDPP wins Lok Sabha bypoll in Nagaland defeating NPF candidate by over 1.73 lakh votes, informs Chief Electoral Officer Abhijit Sinha: PTI*Shiv Sena's demand to not announce Palghar bypoll result rejected by Election Commission. *Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray seeks suspension of election officials, alleges "discrepancies" in counting of votes in Palghar LS bypoll* TMC candidate Dulal Das wins Maheshtala assembly bypoll in West Bengal, secures 104,818 votes against 41,987 by BJP's Sujit Ghosh* * RLD candidate Tabassum Hasan defeated her nearest rival, BJP’s Mriganka Singh by over 55,000 votes to win Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll* JMM wins both Silli and Gomia assembly seats in Jharkhand bypolls* BJP's Rajendra Gavit wins Palaghar Lok Sabha bypoll by 29574 votes, defeats Shiv Sena’s Shriniwas Wanga* BJP candidate trailing by over 40,000 votes in Kairana (UP) Lok Sabha byelection* With one more round of counting to go, BJP’s Rajendra Gavit leads by 29574 votes in Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll* NCP leading by 20,583 votes in Bhandara-Gondiya (Maharashtra) Lok Sabha bypoll* BJP wins Tharali (Uttarakhand) assembly seat by over 1,900 votes* RJD wins Jokihat (Bihar) assembly bypoll by over 41,000 votes* Trinamool Congress wins Maheshtala (West Bengal) assembly seat by a margin of 62,000 votes* Congress wins Shahkot(Punjab) by margin of 38,802 votes* Seema Devi of JMM defeats nearest rival Sudesh Mahto of AJSU for Silli assembly seat (Jharkhand) by 13510 votes* Congress candidate Muniratna has won by 41,162 votes from Rajarajeshwari Nagar ( Karnataka ) assembly constituency* After 18 rounds NCP leads by 12000 votes in Bhandara-Gondiya (Maharashtra) Lok Sabha bypoll* Samajwadi Party wins Noorpur (UP) assembly bypoll by 6211 votes. Party workers start celebrations at Lucknow headquarters* Its going down to the wire in Tharali, Uttarakhand. BJP now leads by 1144 votes, with two more rounds of counting left* RR Nagar (Karnataka): Congress candidate Munirathna leads with 1,03,195 votes, BJP's Muniraju Gowda has got 69769 votes and GH Ramachandra of JDS 54289 votes. * LDF's Saji Cherian wins Chenganur (Kerala) assembly bypoll with a margin of 20,956 votes over UDF's D Vijayakumar* Shahkot (Punjab): Congress lead almost 31,000 after 13th round* In Tharali (Uttarakhand), BJP's lead shrinks to 815 votes after 10 rounds* In Palghar (Maharashtra) Lok Sabha bypoll, BJP’s Rajendra Gavit leads by 18697 votes after round 15* 12 rounds of counting over in Shahkot, Punjab. Congress candidate leading by around 28,000 votes* In Tharali, Uttarakhand, BJP's lead has dropped to 1061 votes after round 9* NCP-Congress candidate Madhukar Kukde leads by 8000 votes over BJP's Hemant Patle after 34 rounds in Bhandara Gondia LS byelection* In Jokihat, Bihar, RJD now leading by a margin of 32563 after the end of 19th round* In Palghar LS seat, BJP leads by 19742 votes after 12 rounds* In Shahkot (Punjab), Congress lead touches 27,000 after 11 founds of counting* RLD's Tabassum Hasan leading by over 26925 votes over BJP's Mriganka Singh after ninth round of counting in Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll* 10 rounds of counting over in Punjab's Shahkot, Congress now ahead by 24,000 votes* Nagaland Lok Sabha by-boll: Naga People's Front leading by over 11,000 votes, ahead of Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party* Congress' Miani D Shira wins from Meghalaya's Ampati Assembly constituency. * In Tharali (Uttarakhand), BJP ahead by 1613 votes* In Bihar's Jokihat, RJD candidate Shanawaz Alam leading JD(U)'s Murshid Alam by 16,299 votes after 14 rounds* NCP leading by 3959 votes from Maharashtra's Bhandara–Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency after fourth round of counting* Clear trend emerging for Maheshtala assembly seat in West Bengal. TMC's Dulal Chandra Das ahead by 33,000 votes after 10 rounds* In Tharali assembly seat in Uttarakhand, BJP candidate Munna Devi has secured a slender lead after 3 rounds of counting* 7 rounds of counting cpmpleted for Maharashtra's Palghar Lok Sabha seat. Rajendra Gavit of BJP has stretched his lead to over 25,000 votes. * In Kairana Lok Sabha byelection, RLD's Tabassum Hasan leading BJP's Mriganka Singh by over 16,000 votes* NCP's Madhukar Kukde leads by 3959 votes in Bhandara- Gondia Lok Sabha by election. * In Chenganur, Kerala, LDF candidate Saji Cherian is leading by a margin of 6643 votes* In Shahkot, Punjab, Congress candidate Hardev Singh Laddi Sherowalia stretches lead to over 21,000 votes after the 9th round*After 8th round of counting in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Congress candidate Munirathna leading with 70224 votes. BJP's Muniraju Gowda at second spot with 27946 votes. GH Ramachandra of JDS has got 15450 votes. * In Jharkhand, the BJP is leading from the Gomia assembly seat by 7,174 votes in the sixth round of counting. Here, its sitting MLA Yogendra Mahto was disqualified in February. * The TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 20,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency in West Bengal, after the sixth round of counting. The CPI(M) is at second, BJP third. The BJP, which is trying to emerge as the main challenger to the TMC - especially after it's good performance in rural polls - has nominated Sujit Ghosh , a former joint director of the CBI. *Congress candidate Muniratna is leading by over 18,000 from Rajarajeshwari Nagar assembly constituency in Karnataka after the fourth round of counting. This constituency didn't see Assembly polls on May 12 along with the rest of Karnataka. Voting here was rescheduled for today, after 9,567 electoral photo identity cards were found in a flat in Jalahalli on May 9, three days before the state went to polls. Here, the contest is among the BJP, the Congress and the JD(S). The latter two are fielding separate candidates, despite coming together to form the government in the state after no single party got a majority in results declared on May 15. The result today will give an indication of how the JD(S)-Congress coalition government will function in the months to come. * The NCP leading from Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondiya LS seat by 3,100 votes, with the BJP at second position. Here, the NCP-Congress opposition combine candidate Madhukar Kukde is facing off with the BJP's Hemant Patle.<doc-sep>The Samajwadi Party has won the Noorpur Assembly seat by 6,678 votes. Meanwhile, RLD's Tabassum Hasan is leading with 3,60,821 votes in Kairana. Auto refresh feeds Earlier in March, the saffron party had suffered defeats in the bypolls held in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats after two opposition parties – BSP and SP – joined hands. The united opposition will treat the bypolls as a pilot project, which if successful, will surely be replicated in 2019 to stop the BJP from coming back to power. All eyes will be on the Kairana Lok Sabha seat and Noorpur Assembly constituency as counting is set to begin in a few hours. The outcome of the polls is crucial for both, the BJP and the Opposition. While the saffron party needs to prove that the mandate is pro-incumbency in Uttar Pradesh, all eyes will be on the combined Opposition candidates in the fray to see if they can uproot the BJP. The counting of votes will start from 8 am in both the constituencies on Thursday. The results are expected to be out by late afternoon. Moreover, malfunctions were reported in 384 VVPAT (Vote Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) machines. Of this 29 were in Noorpur (Bijnor). Apart from this, three EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) also malfunctioned in Shamli. Following these reports, repolling was conducted at 73 polling booths in Kairana on Wednesday, with 61 percent voter turnout. At the end of polling, Kairana Lok Sabha constituency recorded a polling percentage of 54.17, while in Noorpur Assembly constituency, the figure was 61 percent, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Ramesh Chandra Rai, said. The bypolls in both seats were marred by controversy over malfunctioning EVMs, election malpractices, while the troubles of the parties were compounded by a low voter turnout. The Kairana seat fell vacant after the death of BJP MP Hukum Singh, whose daughter Mriganka Singh is now the party candidate. She is fighting Rashtriya Lok Dal's Tabassum Hasan, who is also supported by the Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. Just ahead of the polls, Lok Dal candidate Kanwar Hasan retired from the contest and joined RLD, further boosting Hasan's chances. Mriganka had also contested the Assembly elections in Kairana in 2017 but she lost heavily to Samajwadi Party's Nahid Hasan, who is the son of party's former MP Munawar Khan. In Noorpur by-election, the main contest is between BJP and Samajwadi Party. The BJP has fielded Avani Singh, the wife of the deceased MLA from the seat Lokendra Singh Chauhan as its candidate, while the Samajwadi Party has given a ticket to Naeemul Hasan. The polls were necessitated after the death o Chauhan. The outcome of the Kairana bye-election on Thursday will show if the ruling BJP manages to break its losing streak this year in Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypolls or hands over a hat-trick to the Opposition. The counting of votes for the Noorpur Assembly constituency in the state will also be taken up on Thursday. The counting of votes will begin at 8 am. Voting for the Kairana Lok Sabha seat was held on 28 May and re-polling on Wednesday due to dysfunction of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), VVPAT machine at 73 booths. The counting for the Kairana Lok Sabha seat will be done at Saharanpur while for the Noorpur Vidhan Sabha seat, counting will take place in Bijnor. It is scheduled to start at 8 am. The Lok Sabha seats include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar, and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the sole parliamentary constituency in Nagaland. The Assembly consituencies are Noorpur (Uttar Pradesh), Shahkot (Punjab), Jokihat (Bihar), Gomia and Silli (Jharkhand), Chengannur (Kerala), Palus Kadegaon (Maharashtra), Ampati (Meghalaya), Tharali (Uttarakhand) and Maheshtala (West Bengal). The counting of votes for 10 Assembly constituencies and four Lok Sabha seats across 10 states will be held on Thursday. The seats had gone to polls on 28 May. Counting of votes for the crucial Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh has begun on Thursday. The results of these seats are important for both the BJP and the Opposition. While the saffron party needs to prove that it hasn't lost its magic of the previous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, all eyes will be on the combined Opposition candidates in the fray to see if they uproot the BJP. Naeem Ul Hasan, who is contesting on the Samajwadi Party ticket from the Noorpur Assembly seat, is leading with 1,264 votes. After the second round pf counting, the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate from Noorpur, Naeem Ul Hasan is leading. According to News18 , BJP candidate Mriganka Singh is leading in early trends. Kairana is one of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and is located in the western region of the state. As per early trends, joint opposition candidate Tabassum Hasan, contesting on a Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) ticket, for the Kairana Lok Sabha seat is leading. Shamli collector Indra Vijay Singh informed the media that the first round of counting has been completed with tabulation underway. "Congress candidate Tabassum Hasan has received 3,700 votes and BJP's Mriganka Singh has received 3,746 votes," he siad. Since the early 1990s. the families of Hukum Singh and Munawwar Hassan have been locked in a see-saw tussle for Kairana in Uttar Pradesh. Even after their deaths, their political legacies have been handed over to people from their families for the last two decades. Since 1991, every Kairana MLA has been from either of these two families, according to News18 . Hassan passed away in a road accident in Haryana’s Palwal in 2008. Singh passed away 10 years later of a prolonged illness. But the rivalry didn’t die with them. Naeem Ul Hasan of Samajwadi Party leading in Noorpur Assembly seat after the fifth round with 4,385 votes. According to News18 Hindi , RLD candidate Tabassum Hasan is leading in Kairana by 30,085 votes after the fourth round of counting. BJP's Mriganka Singh received 15,095 votes. Following the third round of counting, RLD's Tabassum Hasan has garnered 55,082 votes while BJP candidate Mriganka Singh is trailing at 45,300 votes.<doc-sep>Date: September 25 | Extent of loss: 504 points (1.29 percent)| Reason: Concerns over the health of the economy, news of impeachment inquiry against US President Donald Trump, tension in the Middle East and uncertainty over the US-China trade deal kept the market under pressure. (Image: Reuters) The Bharatiya Janata Party suffered a setback on Thursday after it failed to retain the Kairana (Uttar Pradesh) and Bhandara-Gondiya (Maharashtra) Lok Sabha seats. This suggests build up in anti-incumbency, which may keep D-Street on shaky ground till the 2019 general elections, experts said. The electoral defeat brings down the ruling party's tally in the lower house of Parliament to 274 seats. If one does not account for party rebels Shatrughan Sinha and Kirti Azad, the BJP's strength is effectively 272. A series of defeats in by-elections, coupled with a few resignations, have led to the saffron party’s numbers declining in the Lok Sabha. In the 2014 general elections, the BJP had bagged 282 seats. Including support from its allies, the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had 336 seats. The recent dip in BJP's tally were triggered by the resignation of BS Yeddyurappa and B Sreeramulu when both turned Members in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. “The opposition tactic of consolidating into a successful non-BJP front appears to be succeeding. We expect a similar result in the 2019 general election, led by the Congress,” Nomura said in a recent report. The global brokerage firm added that the results do suggest a build-up in anti-incumbency. However, Ajay Bodke, CEO and Chief Portfolio Manager PMS at Prabhudas Lilladher, feels the market has discounted fallout of the by-election result. “The BJP needs to rework its strategy, factoring in opposition unity, in the forthcoming state as well as national elections and frame its narrative accordingly." The Nifty has rallied nearly 300 points from its intraday low of 10,417 recorded on May 23 and is just 433 points shy of its all-time high of 11,171. But there are plenty of headwinds that could cap the upside: rising crude oil, currency woes, as well as trade war concerns. Market experts see political uncertainty remaining till the 2019 general elections as the government might rollout populist measures, which could strain India's macros further. The latter has been deteriorating due to rise in crude oil prices, but strong 7.7 percent year-on-year growth in Q4 GDP helped investor sentiment. “Going forward, political uncertainty will remain elevated in the run-up to the election. We expect the government to focus on farmers and the common man via higher minimum support prices and farm loan waivers,” Nomura said. The overhang of rising crude prices may also remain on the markets. Bodke explained the market is focused on the outcome of the crucial meeting between the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia on June 22. "If both parties agree to a large increase in global production, the likelihood of a further slide in crude prices can't be ruled out. This would reduce risk aversion and spur a strong rally in equities of those economies that are heavily dependent on crude imports like India.”<doc-sep>
New Delhi: The results for four Lok Sabha and 11 Assembly polls came in on Thursday. All that the ruling BJP managed to win was the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra and the Tharali Assembly seat in Uttarakhand. While BJP president Amit Shah may have said that losing bypolls was a minor blip as compared to winning state and general elections, the stakes are nevertheless high for the party. In Western UP’s Kairana, the party lost its seat to the RLD, which had the strength of a united opposition behind it. In Maharashtra, it managed to retain the Palghar Lok Sabha seat but lost the Bhandara-Gondia seat to the NCP. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance received some solace on Thursday as the NDPP won the Nagaland Lok Sabha seat. The BJP’s performance, since its historic win in the 2014 General Election, in all Lok Sabha bypolls over the last four years has been underwhelming. The saffron party has only managed to win 5 out of 27 Lok Sabha bypolls held between 2014 and March 2018. In contrast, the Congress has also won 5 of these Lok Sabha battles. But of these five seats, the Congress retained the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat and wrested all the other from the BJP’s kitty. The Congress and the BJP are followed by the TMC (4), in terms of Lok Sabha bypolls won in the last four years. Of the 27 Lok Sabha seats that had bypolls since 2014, 13 were previously held by the BJP. None of the five victories have been in seats where the party has previously not held power. Two of BJP’s wins came in 2014, the year Narendra Modi won his historic mandate, and the other two came in 2016. In 2015 and 2017, the BJP did not win a single Lok Sabha bypoll. This year, till May, the BJP has won just the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll. In 2014, bye-elections to the Lok Sabha were held in five constituencies. All five seats were retained by the respective parties that had won them in the General Election. The BJP retained Maharashtra’s Beed and Gujarat’s Vadodara, which Modi had won and vacated in 2014. The BJD retained the seat of Kandhamal in Odisha, the SP retained UP’s Mainpuri and the TRS managed to hold the seat of Medak in Andhra Pradesh. 2015, however, saw a slight reversal of sorts with the BJP losing the Ratlam Constituency in Madhya Pradesh, which it won in 2014, to the Congress. On the other hand, the TRS held the Warangal seat while the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) held onto the Bangaon seat in West Bengal. The party performed better in 2016, when it retained the Lakhimpur seat in Assam and the Shahdol seat in Madhya Pradesh. However, it failed to wrest the TMC’s strongholds of Coochbehar and Tamluk in West Bengal. In the Tura Lok Sabha bypoll, the BJP’s Meghalaya unit chose not to contest the polls and instead, supported the NPP, which won the election. 2017, however, began as a bad year for the BJP. The party lost two Lok Sabha bypolls in Punjab. In Amritsar, the Congress managed to retain the seat while in Gurdaspur, it wrested a seat that the BJP had won four times. In Kerala, too, the party lost the Malappuram Lok Sabha bypoll and in Srinagar, its ally PDP lost its seat to NC’s Farooq Abdullah. The big streak of losses for the BJP, however, began in 2018. Of the 8 seats which previously had BJP MPs, 6 have been lost in the last few months. In February, the party lost its Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan’s Ajmer and Alwar to the Congress. It also failed to defeat the TMC in West Bengal’s Uluberia. The losses in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in March took the number of seats the BJP has ceded to six. The party also lost in the Araria bypoll in Bihar to the RJD. This month, three BJP-controlled seats went to polls. Out of Palghar, Bhandara-Gondia and Kairana, the party retained just Palghar. Other parties, however, have fared better at retaining their respective seats. The BJD, SP, Congress, NPP and Muslim League each had one of its seat fall vacant. All five parties managed to retain their seats. The TRS had two of its seats go to bypolls and it held both seats. The best strike rate of all, however, belonged to the Trinamool Congress.