Assembly bypolls results: INDIA bloc clinches 10 seats; BJP wins 2 and an independent candidate wins in Bihar

With the counting of votes concluded in the recently held bypoll elections for 13 assembly seats, the INDIA Bloc has emerged victorious on majority seats.

The voting was held on July 10 across seven states including Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.

The Congress, TMC, AAP and DMK are among the INDIA bloc parties that fielded candidates in the bypolls.


The Opposition parties have collectively won 10 seats with Congress winning four seats, DMK winning one, AAP winning one seat and TMC winning 4. Meanwhile, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has managed to win only two seats in the bye elections.

A surprising victory came from Bihar where an independent candidate Shankar Singh beat JD(U)'s Kaladhar Prasad Mandal.

Here's the full list of winners

Seat/ State	Winning Candidate	Party
Rupauli (Bihar)	Shankar Singh	Independent
Dehra (Himachal Pradesh)	Kamlesh Thakur	Congress
Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh)	Ashish Sharma	BJP
Nalagarh (Himachal Pradesh)	Hardeep Singh Bawa	Congress
Amarwara (Madhya Pradesh)	Kamlesh Pratap Singh	BJP
Jalandhar West (Punjab)	Mohinder Bhagat	AAP
Vikravandi (Tamil Nadu)	Anniyur Siva @ Sivashanmugam A	DMK
Badrinath (Uttarakhand)	Lakhapat Singh Butola	Congress
Manglaur (Uttarakhand)	Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin	Congress
Raiganj (West Bengal)	Krishna Kalyani	TMC
Ranaghat Dakshin (West Bengal)	Mukut Mani Adhikari	TMC
Bagda (West Bengal)	Madhuparna Thakur	TMC
Maniktala (West Bengal)	Supti Pandey	TMC

Notable victories include AAP's Mohinder Bhagat, who won the Jalandhar West seat in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur in Dehra and TMC's Krishna Kalyani in West Bengal's Raiganj.

After the promising assembly bypoll results, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge expressed his gratitude to the voters and party workers.

"We bow before the public for the positive result of the assembly by-election. My heartfelt thanks and gratitude to them for wherever they voted for the Congress Party candidates. We salute all Congress workers for their hard work and efforts in adverse circumstances. This victory shows that the people have now completely rejected the arrogance, misgovernance and negative politics of the BJP. This is also a strong evidence of the falling political credibility of Modi and Shah. Jai Hind, Jai Constitution," he said in a post on X.