Counting of votes began on Tuesday for three Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly constituencies across 14 states and the Union territory of Dadra and...

Counting of votes began on Tuesday for three Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly constituencies across 14 states and the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The bye-polls were held on October 30.
The three Lok Sabha seats where bye-polls were held were Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. The elections were necessitated in most places after the legislators of the constituencies died.
Among the 29 Assembly constituencies where bye-polls took place, five were in Assam, four in West Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.
According to the trends at 10.05 am, Trinamool Congress’s Subrata Mondal was leading against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Palash Rana by a huge margin of 51,773 votes in West Bengal’s Gosaba constituency. Trinamool Congress candidates were also leading in the Dinhata, Khardaha and Santipur seats.
The Election Commission’s trends from Assam showed that BJP was leading in Bhabapinur, Thowra and Mariani seats as of 10.05 am. The United People’s Party (Liberal) was leading in the remaining two constituencies of Gossaigaon and Tamulpur.
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