BJP Candidate Devasish Sharma Wins Assam's Nagaon Lok Sabha Seat By 1, 42,224 Votes: Election Commission

Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Friday attributed the victory of ruling TVK candidates, Maragatham Kumaravel and P Sathyabama, in Madurantakam and Dharapuram Assembly constituencies respectively, to the opposition DMK's alleged "slander targeting women", even as DMK chief M K Stalin labelled the win as an "interim victory for betrayal."

AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, whose party performed dismally, finishing third in both the assembly constituencies reserved for SC, alleged that the TVK misused government machinery and ignored election regulations to secure victory through "crooked ways".

In a veiled attack on DMK president M K Stalin for allegedly bodyshaming TVK's Dharapuram candidate P Sathyabama during the campaigning for the bypolls, Vijay said the bypoll victory is a vote against "defamatory speech aimed at women."

-PTI

NDA’s greatest strength lies in the people’s trust and confidence! The Lok Sabha result in Nagaon and Assembly results in Nandigram, Rejinagar and Thattanchavady reaffirm the people’s faith in PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s leadership, vision and policies and the BJP-NDA’s agenda of good governance and public welfare. The INDI Alliance’s repeated electoral defeats reflect its declining public trust. Questioning institutions instead of introspecting only exposes its political desperation. Congratulations to the victorious BJP candidates and our NDA ally, AINRC. Salute to our dedicated Party Karyakartas for their tireless efforts. We remain committed to serving the people and fulfilling their aspirations. @BJP4Assam @BJP4Bengal

— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) October 9, 2026

In a shot in the arm for the minority government led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, the ruling TVK on Friday won the bypolls to Madurantakam and Dharapuram Assembly constituencies and the BJP's ally AINRC won with ease, the Thattanchavady byelection in neighbouring Puducherry.

The TVK emerged victorious in its maiden fight in the byelections held on October 6, held nearly five months after it assumed power and the win is a morale booster to the ruling party ahead of the bypolls expected in a few months to five more constituencies.

-PTI

The BJP, under the leadership of PM Shri @narendramodi Ji, continues to win elections one after another despite the lies and disinformation campaigns run by Rahul Gandhi and the INDI Alliance. The NDA’s victories in the by-elections in West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry, and the recently held local body polls in Rajasthan and Tripura, demonstrate that the people have completely rejected the INDI Alliance. Having lost their public support, these parties question institutions after every defeat, but the people have recognised their true character. This is why the people have once again delivered a thumping mandate, reaffirming their unwavering faith in the BJP. Heartfelt congratulations on this victory to West Bengal CM Shri @SuvenduWB Ji, Assam CM Shri @himantabiswa Ji, Rajasthan CM Shri @BhajanlalBjp Ji, Tripura CM Prof. @DrManikSaha2 Ji and Puducherry CM Shri N. Rangasamy Ji, along with all the state presidents and dedicated karyakartas.

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) October 9, 2026

Gratitude to the people for their continuous blessings! The Lok Sabha result of Nagaon (Assam) and Assembly results of Nandigram as well as Rejinagar (West Bengal) show yet again that the people have a deep-rooted connect with the good governance agenda of BJP-NDA. I congratulate the victorious BJP candidates and also applaud the hardwork of our Party Karyakartas. I also congratulate our valued NDA ally, the AINRC, for their win in Thattanchavady in Puducherry. This mandate will give us added strength as we work tirelessly for the welfare of the people and to fulfil their aspirations for a brighter and more prosperous future. @BJP4Assam @BJP4Bengal

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 9, 2026

Vijay's party wins Dharapuram bypoll by 9,000 votes, leads in Madurantakam.

The BJP on Friday won the Rejinagar assembly seat in West Bengal's Murshidabad district by a margin of 75,816 votes.

BJP candidate Shankharavh Sarkar polled 1,29,914 votes in the by-election, defeating his nearest rival, Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) nominee Golam Nabi Azad, who secured 54,098 votes, according to the results declared by the Election Commission.

BJP bagged around 63.14 per cent of the votes.

Hasirani Rath, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the bypoll for Nandigram Assembly Constituency in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, was declared elected by a record margin of 1,22,753 votes.

While Rath secured 1,64,427 votes, Congress’s Milan Pradhan came in the second position, securing 41,674 votes.

CPI’s Santi Gopal Giri was in the third position, receiving 5,779 votes, followed by All India Secular Front’s (AISF) Ali Md Sabe Miraj Khan in the fourth position, securing 1,607 votes.

In Rejinagar, a constituency in Murshidabad district with a nearly 70 per cent Muslim electorate, BJP's Shankharavh Sarkar is currrently ahead of Aam Janata Unnayan Party's Golam Nabi Azad by 37,506 votes.

Sarkar has polled 61,386 votes  after seven rounds, while Azad, son of AJUP founder Humayun Kabir, has secured 23,880.

The BJP is set to win the Nandigram bypoll, with its candidate leading by over 1.05 lakh votes.

BJP's candidate, Hasi Rani Rath, is leading over Congress nominee Milan Pradhan, by 1,05,869 votes after 13 rounds of counting.

Rath has secured 1,43,656 votes against Pradhan's 37,787.

BJP's Devasish Sharma has achieved an unassailable lead of 1,10,629 votes over his nearest rival, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal, in the by-election to the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat in Assam.

Sharma has polled 4,20,705 votes, while Ajmal has secured 3,10,076 votes. Congress nominee Sibamoni Bora was a distant third with 75,908.

In Dharapuram, TVK's P Sathyabama is leading the race by a margin of over 9,600 votes.

Sathyabama, who at one stage was trailing behind AIADMK's K Banumathi, has so far polled 48,675 votes.

The DMK nominee S Suganya, who was earlier at the third spot, has moved on to the second with 39,039 votes, pushing Banumathi to the third place, who has so far bagged 31,067 votes.

In Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay-led TVK has continued to gain strength in Madurantakam.

TVK's Maragatham Kumaravel is currently leading by over 6,000 votes, while DMK's I Paranthamen and AIADMK's S Kanitha Sampath were at the second and third spots.

In Rejinagar, BJP candidate Shankharavh Sarkar is currently leading by 34,501 votes over his nearest rival, Golam Nabi Azad of the Aam Janata Unnayan Party, after the fifth round of counting.

Sarkar has polled 48,101 votes, while Azad has secured 13,600 votes.

Mamata All India Trinamool Congress candidate Rabiul Alam Chowdhury was in the third spot with 2,516 votes. Abdullahil Kafi of the Congress has slipped to the fourth position with 2,407 votes.

In Bengal's Nandigram, BJP's Hasi Rani Rath is leading by more than 49,000 votes after six rounds of counting.

She has secured 66,415 votes, while Congress's Milan Pradhan, who trailed in the second spot, has got 16,493 votes.

Santi Gopal Giri of the CPI was in the third place with 2,495 votes. Ali Md Sabe Miraj Khan of All India Secular Front was in the fourth place with 660 votes, followed by Ehteshmul Haque of Democratic Trinamool Congress with 345 votes.

The ruling BJP has made surprise gains in Muslim-majority Rejinagar in Murshidabad district. The party's candidate, Shankharavh Sarkar, is currently leading by over 20,000 votes over his nearest rival, Golam Nabi Azad of the Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP), after the third round of counting.

Sarkar has so far polled 28,366 votes, while Azad, the son of AJUP chief Humayun Kabir, has got 8,109 votes.

Abdullahil Kafi of the Congress is in the third spot with 1,705 votes.

Mamata All India Trinamool Congress candidate Rabiul Alam Chowdhury has bagged 1,286 votes, while Safiuzzaman Saikh of the rival Democratic Trinamool Congress faction led by Arup Roy has got 490 votes.

BJP candidate Devashish Sharma has extended his lead over his nearest rival, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal, in the by-election to the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat in Assam.

Sharma, a former IAS officer, has so far polled 1,94,917 votes, while Ajmal secured 1,15,456 votes and Congress' Sibamoni Bora was at a distant third with 32,643 votes, as per the data available on the EC website.

AINRC's Ashok Anand has won the Thattanchavady seat in Puducherry by over 8,000 votes. 

Anand secured 13,358 votes, while Congress' E Vinayagam stood second with 4,876 votes. DMK's K Sethu alias Sethuselvam secured 2,664 votes.

BJP's Hasirani Rath, the mother of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's personal assistant, Chandranath Rath, who was shot dead days after Bengal assembly elections results, has extended her lead in Nandigram.

She has so far received over 24,000 votes and is leading by more than 19,600 votes. Congress candidate Milan Pradhan is in second place with about 4,300 votes.

BJP's Devasish Sharma has so far polled over 1.1 lakh votes and is now leading by 57,000 votes in Assam's Nagaon.

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal is in second place with 52,000 votes, while Congress' Sibamoni Bora is in third with 16,000 votes.

AINRC's Ashok Anand has maintained a comfortable lead in Puducherry's Thattanchavady seat. He has so far received 10,467 votes and is ahead by 6,774 votes.

Congress' E Vinayagam is in second place with 3,693 votes, followed by DMK's K Sedhu Selvam, which has polled 2,158 votes.

BJP's Hasirani Rath is now leading by 9,600 votes after the initial round of counting in Nandigram, while Congress candidate Milan Pradhan is in second place.

In Rejinagar, BJP's Shankharavh Sarkar has now extended his lead and is currently ahead by over 11,000 votes.

He has so far secured 11,614 votes, while Congress' Mohammad Abdullahil Kafi is at a distant second with 581 votes.

Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) candidate Gulam Nabi Azad has polled 446 votes.

The BJP is currently ahead in West Bengal's Nandigram and Rejinagar, as per the latest trends.

BJP's Devasish Sharma has now extended his lead in Assam's Nagaon. He is currently ahead by more than 26,000 votes, as per the latest trends on the Election Commission website.

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal is in second place, while Congress candidate and former Batadroba MLA Sibamoni Bora is in third.

TVK's Maragatham Kumaravel has taken a lead in Madurantakam.

AIADMK's K Banumathi is currently leading by just five votes in Tamil Nadu's Dharapuram, with TVK's P Sathyabama in second place.

Banumathi has so far got 2,639 votes, while Sathyabama has polled 2,634.

AINRC's Ashok Anand is currently ahead in Puducherry's Thattanchavady seat, leading by nearly 2,000 votes. Congress' E Vinayagam is in second place, followed by DMK's K Sedhu Selvam.

BJP's Devasish Sharma is currently leading in Assam's Nagaon by over 3,300 votes, as per the latest trends on the Election Commission website.

Chief Minister Vijay's TVK is currently leading in both seats, Dharapuram and Madurantakam, as per initial trends.

#WATCH | Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu: Security has been tightened at the Integrated Social Development Training Centre in Aathur, Chengalpattu district, ahead of the counting of votes for the Madurantakam Assembly constituency by-election, scheduled to begin today. Polling was held on October 6.

— ANI (@ANI) October 9, 2026

#WATCH | Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu: Security has been tightened in Tiruppur ahead of the Dharapuram Assembly by-election voting. Police started barricading the city. https://t.co/q71jgKUIvd

— ANI (@ANI) October 9, 2026

The counting has begun for bypolls in six seats across three states and a union territory.

Assam witnessed a bypoll in the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency, which was vacated by Pradyut Bordoloi, who won from the constituency on a Congress ticket in 2024, but later joined the BJP and won from Dispur in the recent assembly polls.

The BJP has now turned to former Nagaon Deputy Commissioner Devasish Sharma, while Congress has fielded former Batadroba MLA Sibamoni Bora. AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal's decision to contest has added another major factor to the electoral arithmetic.

In Puducherry, bypoll was held in Thattanchavady seat, which was vacated by Chief Minister and All India NR Congress chief N Rangasamy, who had won from both Thattanchavady and Mangalam in the Assembly elections.

Rangasamy opted to retain Mangalam and resigned from Thattanchavady.

The main contest is between AINRC candidate Ashok Anand, the Congress candidate E Vinayagam and DMK's K Sedhu Selvam.

In Tamil Nadu, votes will be counted for bypolls in the Madurantakam (SC) and Dharapuram (SC) Assembly constituencies, which were won in the recent elections by AIADMK's Maragatham Kumaravel and P Sathyabama, respectively.

The two leaders were among a group of rebel AIADMK legislators who backed Chief Minister Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government in a floor test. They later resigned and joined the ruling TVK.

They have now been re-nominated by the TVK. 

AIADMK has fielded S Kanitha Sampath from Madurantakam and K Bhanumathi from Dharapuram.

The DMK had fielded I Paranthamen in Madurantakam and S Suganya in Dharapuram.

Bypolls were also held in Bengal's Rejinagar after Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) chief Humayun Kabir, who had won both Rejinagar and Nowda in the 2026 Assembly election, retained Nowda. His party has fielded his son Golam Nabi Azad.

In West Bengal, the bypolls were held in Nandigram, which was vacated by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari after he chose to retain Bhabanipur where he had defeated former chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

The BJP has fielded Hasirani Rath, whose son Chandranath Rath, a former aide of Adhikari, was shot dead on May 6, two days after the BJP came to power for the first time in the state after winning the Assembly elections.

Counting for bypolls in five assembly constituencies in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry, along with a Lok Sabha seat in Assam, will begin shortly.