Odisha Bypoll Results 2020: BJD Wrests Balasore from BJP, Retains Tirtol
News 18The ruling BJD in Odisha on Tuesday wrested the Balasore assembly seat from the BJP and retained Tirtol in the bypolls held last week, with its candidates beating the BJP nominees and pushing the Congress to the third place. In Balasore, BJD candidate Swarup Kumar Das defeated his nearest BJP nominee Manas Kumar Dutta by a margin of 13,351 votes. Congress candidate Mamata Kundu was relegated to the third place, securing 4,983 votes in Balasore, which had emerged as a stronghold of the BJP, whose candidate late Madan Mohan Dutta had won the 2019 assembly elections. In the Tirtol assembly segment in Jagatsinghpur district, BJD’s Bijay Shankar Das trounced BJP candidate Rajkishore Behera by a margin of 41,703 votes While Das polled 88,310 votes, Behera bagged 46,607 votes. The BJD candidate, who is the son of late Bishnu Charan Das, secured 52.91 per cent of the 1,66,921 votes polled in the by-election.