Election bypoll results: BJP bags 4 out of 7 seats

New Delhi: Polling was held in Adampur constituency of Haryana, Mokama and Gopalganj seats of Bihar, Andheri (East) of Maharashtra, Munugode of Telangana, Gola Gokarannath of Uttar Pradesh, and Dhamnagar of Odisha on November 3. Out of these seven seats where bypolls are being held, the BJP managed to win four seats, while the Shiv Sena, RJD and TRS won one each.

Defeating the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the BJP was able to retain its Dhamnagar MLA seat in Odisha's Bhadrak district with its candidate Suryabanshi Suraj winning by a margin of 9,881 votes.

BJP's Bhavya Bishnoi, a grandson of late Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, retained family stronghold Adampur, defeating former Union minister and a three-time MP Jai Prakash of the Congress by a margin of 15,714 votes in the assembly bypoll.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Aman Giri won the Gola Gokarnnath by-election in Uttar Pradesh with a margin of



34,298 votes. According to the Election Commission,  with 1,24,810 votes Giri got 55.88 per cent of the total votes. Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Vinay Tiwari came second with 40.52 per cent votes.

With a margin of 16,741 votes, Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Neelam Devi successfully managed to register her victory at the Mokama assembly by-election in Bihar. Meanwhile, in the Gopalganj constituency of the state, RJD's Mohan Prasad Gupta was defeated by BJP candidate Kusum Devi with a margin of 1,794 votes despite taking an early lead and witnessing a neck-and-neck fight.

Rutuja Latke, the candidate of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), won the bypoll to Andheri (East) Assembly seat in Mumbai by bagging more than 66,000 votes, followed by 12,806 votes polled in favour of the None Of The Above (NOTA) option, an official said. Latke got 66,530 votes out of the total 86,570 votes.