Counting on October 9 gave the BJP the Nandigram, Rejinagar and Nagaon seats, the TVK both Tamil Nadu seats of Madurantakam and Dharapuram, and the AINRC the Puducherry seat of Thattanchavady, with margins differing slightly between reports.
In Bengal and Assam, the BJP’s margins were large: about 1.23 lakh votes in Nandigram, about 75,800 in Rejinagar and about 1.4 lakh in Nagaon, where the Congress, the previous holder, finished third.
In Tamil Nadu, the contest was triangular. The ruling TVK won both seats, the DMK finished second in both and the AIADMK third, according to ETV Bharat.
In Puducherry, the AINRC’s Ashok Anand won by 8,482 votes, nearly double the margin of N. Rangasamy in April, whose decision to keep another seat caused the vacancy.
A bypoll fills a vacancy and does not change who governs, so the results are a snapshot of local sentiment, and the official figures are the Election Commission’s.
In Assam’s Nagaon Lok Sabha seat, the BJP’s Devasish Sharma won, ahead of the AIUDF’s Badruddin Ajmal.
The Sentinel reported Sharma’s margin as 1,42,224 votes, while ETV Bharat gave 1,40,257, so the margin is about 1.4 lakh.
The Congress’s Sibamoni Bora finished third in Nagaon, according to the Sentinel.
Assam Chief Minister called the win a tribute to the Prime Minister’s leadership, according to ETV Bharat.
In Tamil Nadu, the ruling TVK won both Madurantakam and Dharapuram.
In Madurantakam, TVK’s K. Maragatham Kumaravel won by about 20,000 votes over the DMK, according to India TV and ETV Bharat.
A live blog by DT Next gave an earlier-stage margin of 19,312 for Madurantakam, so the final margin should be checked against the Election Commission’s figures.
In Dharapuram, TVK’s Sathyabama polled 66,841 votes against 57,370 for the DMK, and the margin was 9,471 votes, according to ETV Bharat.
The DMK finished second in both Tamil Nadu seats and the AIADMK third, according to ETV Bharat.
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