The Trinamool Congress was leading by a comfortable margin in all three seats in assembly by-polls in West Bengal. "Politics of arrogance will not work. People have rejected the BJP," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said congratulating her party members.
Counting for the bypolls to three West Bengal Assembly constituencies and one Uttarakhand Assembly constituency will be announced on Thursday. In West Bengal, elections were held in Karimpur, Kharagpur Sadar and Kaliaganj constituencies, while in Uttarakhand, a bye-election took place in Pithoragarh constituency.
In West Bengal, there are tensions between the Trinamool Congress and BJP over an attack on a BJP candidate during voting on Monday.
BJP's Karimpur candidate, Jay Prakash Majumdar, was heckled, assaulted and kicked into bushes by the side of the road by Trinamool supporters during polling.
Despite the violence, the assembly segments recorded an impressive overall voter turnout.
"The average voting percentage was 75.48 per cent. The turnout was 77.17 per cent in Kaliaganj, 67.62 per cent in Kharagpur Sadar and 81.23 per cent in Karimpur," the Election Commission had said.
| West Bengal & Uttarakhand ByPoll Election Results 2019 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | West Bengal | West Bengal | West Bengal | Uttarakhand |
| Constituency | Kaliaganj | Karimpur | Kharagpur Sadar | Pithoragarh |
| Leading | Tapan Deb Singha | Bimalendu Sinha Roy | Pradip Sarkar | Chandra Pant |
| Party | TMC | TMC | TMC | BJP |
| Previous Winner | Cong | TMC | BJP | BJP |
| Status | Gains | Holds | Gains | Holds |
