UP Election Results: Congress Loses Security Deposit in 97% of Seats It Contested, BSP Loses in 72%
2 years, 9 months ago

UP Election Results: Congress Loses Security Deposit in 97% of Seats It Contested, BSP Loses in 72%

News 18  

The Congress in Uttar Pradesh lost its security deposit in 387 of the 399 seats it contested in the recently concluded assembly polls. Although having contested nearly all seats, Congress got just 2.4% of the total votes, lower than RLD’s 2.9% from just 33 seats it contested. Former CM Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party is one other major party that lost the deposit in 290 seats out of all the 403 it contested, as per a Times of India report. Even the winner BJP lost the deposit in three of the 376 seats it contested and its strong challenger Samajwadi Party lost deposit in six of its 347 seats.

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Opinion: The fight for Ambedkar's legacy signifies a big churn in Dalit politics
2 days, 9 hours ago

Opinion: The fight for Ambedkar's legacy signifies a big churn in Dalit politics

India Today  

The treasury benches and the Opposition have been engaged in a war of words over Dr BR Ambedkar’s legacy in Parliament and outside. Setback and recovery In the 2024 general elections, the BJP lost three per cent support of Dalits and its allies lost two per cent. On the other hand, the Congress lost one per cent support but its …

AAP secures 55 per cent of total seats in Punjab civic body elections; majority in one corporation only
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3 days, 9 hours ago

AAP secures 55 per cent of total seats in Punjab civic body elections; majority in one corporation only

New Indian Express  

More than 3,300 candidates contested in the civic body polls and a total of 37.32 lakh voters were eligible to vote in the elections. Voter turnout was 65.85 per cent; polling percentage at Phagwara was 55.21 per cent, Jalandhar 50.27 per cent, Amritsar 44.05 per cent, Ludhiana 46.95 per cent and Patiala 32.95 per cent. Congress secured 25 seats, BJP …

UP bypolls: 31.21 pc turnout at 1 pm in 9 assembly seats
1 month ago

UP bypolls: 31.21 pc turnout at 1 pm in 9 assembly seats

Deccan Chronicle  

Lucknow: Voting for bypolls in nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh picked up pace after a sluggish start, with over 31 per cent voters turning up to exercise their franchise by 1 pm on Wednesday.Voting started at 7 am in Katehari, Karhal, Mirapur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan, Sisamau, Khair, Phulpur and Kundarki seats and will end at 5 pm. While eight seats …

UP bypolls: Voting underway in nine Assembly seats
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1 month ago

UP bypolls: Voting underway in nine Assembly seats

Deccan Chronicle  

Lucknow: Nearly 10 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours of polling across nine assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. While eight seats fell vacant following the incumbent MLAs' election to the Lok Sabha, polling in Sisamau is being conducted due to Samajwadi Party lawmaker Irfan Solanki's disqualification from the assembly after his …

Desultory Congress campaign may make BJP lose again
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Desultory Congress campaign may make BJP lose again

New Indian Express  

Since 2014 Lok Sabha polls, its evident in every election in Delhi that BJP in assembly polls, with poll not being a direct referendum on the leadership of Narendra Modi, fails to touch the mark of 40 per cent votes in its favour. In 2013 polls, when the Congress had garnered about 15 percent votes, AAP got 28 seats and …

Mayawati's BSP to Focus on Upper Caste Votes in Upcoming Bypolls
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mayawati's BSP to Focus on Upper Caste Votes in Upcoming Bypolls

The Hindu  

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is set to play spoilsport in the upcoming byelections, aiming to disrupt the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Indian National Congress (INC) dominance in Uttar Pradesh. The party has fielded four upper caste candidates in four seats, hoping to combine its core Scheduled Caste vote bank with that of the caste of the candidate to …

Will Samajwadi Party field its Faizabad winner’s son in Uttar Pradesh assembly bypoll?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Will Samajwadi Party field its Faizabad winner’s son in Uttar Pradesh assembly bypoll?

Hindustan Times  

The Samajwadi Party is likely to field its newly elected Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad’s son Ajit Prasad to defend the Milkipur assembly seat for which a bypoll is expected to be held along with nine other assembly seats later this year. Awadhesh created a political sensation of sorts by winning the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in Ayodhya district by defeating …

Data says 89% candidates lost deposits in J&K, 68% polled fewer than NOTAs
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Data says 89% candidates lost deposits in J&K, 68% polled fewer than NOTAs

New Indian Express  

SRINAGAR : About 89 per cent candidates, who contested the Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir, forfeited their security deposits and these include all three candidates of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP, two candidates of BJP-backed Apni Party and PDP candidate from Baramulla seat. According to Election Commission of India data, a total of 100 candidates contested from five Lok …

Ghaziabad: Runner-up Cong’s vote share increased from 7.34% to 35.17%
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Ghaziabad: Runner-up Cong’s vote share increased from 7.34% to 35.17%

Hindustan Times  

While urban voters in Sahibabad, Ghaziabad and Muradnagar segments turned the tide in favour of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Atul Garg, who won the Ghaziabad seat by a margin of 336,965 votes, vote share data shows that runner-up Congress candidate Dolly Sharma also performed well with her vote share surging from 7.34% in 2019 to 35.17% in 2024. According to …

Election results 2024: BJP down from 77 to 55 on reserved seats as Congress, SP make windfall gains
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Election results 2024: BJP down from 77 to 55 on reserved seats as Congress, SP make windfall gains

The Hindu  

Results from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which saw social justice and reservation take centre stage over the last two months of campaigning, show that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been reduced to 55 seats out of the total 131 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha. Other losses on these reserved seats were …

SP-powered Opposition reverses U.P. script
6 months, 2 weeks ago

SP-powered Opposition reverses U.P. script

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party was expected to do well in Uttar Pradesh this time, better than 2019 when it won 62 of the state’s 80 seats, and perhaps even better than 2014, when it won 71. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won from Rae Bareli, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav from Kannauj, but Modi’s victory margin in Varanasi dipped from 479,505 votes …

Punjab: Congress bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Punjab: Congress bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP

Hindustan Times  

A resurgent Congress bounced back in Punjab on Tuesday by winning seven of the 13 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, ahead of the state’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, after a dismal showing in the 2022 assembly elections. The Congress tally, though one less than the eight seats it won in the 2019 parliamentary polls, marked its return as a …

Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2024: U.P.’s western region proved to be the wind vane of the State
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2024: U.P.’s western region proved to be the wind vane of the State

The Hindu  

In the Bharatiya Janata Party ’s reduced score in Uttar Pradesh, the Western and adjoining central parts of the State played the role of a wind vane. Mr. Balyan’s supporters have accused the RLD of not going full tilt to ensure the victory of the BJP’s Jat face, who rose to prominence after the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and defeated the …

Cong bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Cong bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP

Hindustan Times  

A resurgent Congress bounced back in Punjab on Tuesday by winning seven of the 13 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, ahead of the state’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, after a dismal showing in the 2022 assembly elections. The Congress tally, though one less than the eight seats it won in the 2019 parliamentary polls, marked its return as a …

Election results 2024: Mayawati’s BSP faces a sharp fall in Uttar Pradesh
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Election results 2024: Mayawati’s BSP faces a sharp fall in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu  

The Bahujan Samaj Party failed to win a single seat in the 2024 general election, which it fought alone, despite contesting the highest number of seats among the six national parties, fielding candidates in 488 constituencies, including all 80 in Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Azad won the Nagina Lok Sabha seat by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes, with the …

Uttar Pradesh 2024 election results show BJP losing in 27 seats it won in 2019
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttar Pradesh 2024 election results show BJP losing in 27 seats it won in 2019

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had major victories in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, securing the lion’s share of seats from Uttar Pradesh, faced significant losses from the state in its bid for a third term at the Centre. In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party forged an alliance with the Rashtriya …

Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2024: Mayawati’s BSP performance in Uttar Pradesh
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2024: Mayawati’s BSP performance in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu  

Staring at one of its worst electoral defeats from Uttar Pradesh, the Bahujan Samaj Party is trailing behind in all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2024 LIVE updates For constituency-wise real-time updates, visit our Election Results page | Follow the election results live updates At 3.00 pm, Samajwadi Party candidates were leading on 36 …

5 things about Akhilesh Yadav’s SP and its ‘unexpected’ performance in UP
6 months, 3 weeks ago

5 things about Akhilesh Yadav’s SP and its ‘unexpected’ performance in UP

Firstpost  

The better than expected showing by Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has surprised many, at least those who were expecting the results to mirror exit poll predictions As per the current trends, the Samajwadi Party-led INDIA bloc has managed to edge out the BJP in the crucial heartland state of Uttar Pradesh. A surprise : The better than …

India election results: Big wins, losses and surprises
6 months, 3 weeks ago

India election results: Big wins, losses and surprises

Al Jazeera  

With all of India’s 640 million votes counted following the six-week-long election, the world’s – and history’s – largest democratic exercise has thrown up some big surprises. In advance of counting, exit polls had predicted the BJP could win a vast majority of the state’s seats. ‘Politics of humiliation’: How the BJP lost Maharashtra plot The BJP and its allies …

In Sikkim, NOTA outdid Congress; CM got more votes than 31 BJP candidates
6 months, 3 weeks ago

In Sikkim, NOTA outdid Congress; CM got more votes than 31 BJP candidates

The Hindu  

Candidates of the Congress, which ruled Sikkim for more than four years after its merger with India in 1975, polled 50 votes fewer than NOTA in the 12 seats the party contested in the Himalayan State on April 19. The 31 candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party did better than their Congress counterparts but their total tally of 19,956 votes …

Losing deposit no bar for LS, assembly bids in Bihar
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Losing deposit no bar for LS, assembly bids in Bihar

Hindustan Times  

More than 80 per cent of candidates in Bihar have forfeited their security deposits in the last two parliamentary elections in the country as well as the assembly polls in the state, as per information available with the Election Commission of India. “The increase in the number of candidates losing their deposits is a pointer to the fact that the …

Opposition will lose all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi: BJP
10 months ago

Opposition will lose all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi: BJP

Hindustan Times  

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party MP Meenakshi Lekhi and party president Virendra Sachdeva on Saturday slammed the pact announced by Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress for the Lok Sabha seats in the Capital and four other states, calling it an “alliance of the corrupt”. Lekhi said the two parties tied up so that they could pin the blame on each …

Lok Sabha polls: In 2019, Congress lost deposits on most seats it has secured for 2024 in UP
10 months ago

Lok Sabha polls: In 2019, Congress lost deposits on most seats it has secured for 2024 in UP

New Indian Express  

After weeks of hard bargaining and long parleys, the Samajwadi Party and Congress reached a deal in Uttar Pradesh to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections together. An analysis of election data reveals that the 17 seats allotted to the Congress party are notably those where it performed inadequately during the 2019 general elections. In the 2019 elections, the Congress …

Congress-SP seat-sharing deal in Madhya Pradesh too: Check parties’ share here
10 months ago

Congress-SP seat-sharing deal in Madhya Pradesh too: Check parties’ share here

Live Mint  

After Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress seem to have sealed the seat-sharing deal in Madhya Pradesh too. “The Samajwadi Party will contest one seat, Khajuraho, in Madhya Pradesh and support Congress on the rest,” the chief of Uttar Pradesh's SP unit, Naresh Uttam Patel was quoted by PTI as saying on Wednesday. The Madhya Pradesh seat-sharing deal …

‘Put ego aside’: Sanjay Jha raps Congress over seat sharing with Samajwadi Party
10 months ago

‘Put ego aside’: Sanjay Jha raps Congress over seat sharing with Samajwadi Party

Live Mint  

Congress' former leader Sanjay Jha on Tuesday advised that Congress must seal alliance on seat distribution with Samajwadi Party. This statement comes from the former Congress leader amid talk that the Samajwadi Party is offering around 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. Sanjay Jha, claimed if Congress did not seal seat sharing alliance in Uttar Pradesh, …

Telangana Assembly elections: Narrow 2% swing in votes helps Congress win, BRS’ vote share drops 10%
1 year ago

Telangana Assembly elections: Narrow 2% swing in votes helps Congress win, BRS’ vote share drops 10%

Live Mint  

A narrow 2% shift in votes toward the Congress led to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi losing the assembly elections in Telangana. According to the Election Commission's data, the Congress won 64 assembly seats in the 119-member assembly, attaining a 39.40% vote share, while the BRS bagged 39 seats with a 37.35% vote share. The K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS witnessed a …

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election: Narottam Mishra, 11 other ministers lose despite BJP's big victory
1 year ago

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election: Narottam Mishra, 11 other ministers lose despite BJP's big victory

India TV News  

Although the Bhartiya Janta Party secured a landslide victory in Madhya Pradesh in the assembly elections held on Sunday, close to 12 ministers of the saffron party including home minister Narottam Mishra lost their seats. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Patel, BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayavargiya, Congress's Kamal Nath and former minister Ram Niwas …

'INDIA bloc will not win...,' says Omar Abdullah as he lashes out on Congress for losing MP, Rajasthan
1 year ago

'INDIA bloc will not win...,' says Omar Abdullah as he lashes out on Congress for losing MP, Rajasthan

Firstpost  

“Judging the results of INDIA alliance in the state elections, if the situation is like this in the future, we cannot win,” Omar Abdullah said, speaking to reporters on Sunday Amid the results of four state assembly elections in which the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading n Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah …

Congress’ win means I.N.D.I.A bloc’s victory, good days have come: Sanjay Raut after exit poll predictions
1 year ago

Congress’ win means I.N.D.I.A bloc’s victory, good days have come: Sanjay Raut after exit poll predictions

India TV News  

A day after the Congress party was predicted to win Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan in the exit polls of the five Assembly elections held last month, Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said that the grand old party’s win will be the victory of the I.N.D.I.A bloc, which comprises of over 25 Opposition parties. Vote share: Congress 42.43 …

MP Exit Poll Results 2023: Congress Likely To Dash BJP's Dream Of Another Term
1 year ago

MP Exit Poll Results 2023: Congress Likely To Dash BJP's Dream Of Another Term

ABP News  

The ABP-C Voter Exit Poll has predicted that a resurgent Congress would most likely wrest Madhya Pradesh back to its fold. The BJP, however, is likely to see a minor dip in the vote percentage at 40.7 per cent from 41 per cent in the last elections. Meanwhile, Congress -- which faced a setback after winning the 2018 Assembly polls …

Samajwadi Party likely to contest on 65 seats in UP in 2024, to leave remaining for I.N.D.I.A. bloc: Sources
1 year, 1 month ago

Samajwadi Party likely to contest on 65 seats in UP in 2024, to leave remaining for I.N.D.I.A. bloc: Sources

India TV News  

The Samajwadi Party is likely to contest next year's general elections on 65 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh while 15 seats will be spared for I.N.D.I.A. However, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's party has not finalised 65 seats on which it's planning to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to Samajwadi Party's spokesperson …

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Not only BJP, but Congress to face INDIA allies in 92 out of 232 seats
1 year, 1 month ago

Madhya Pradesh Elections 2023: Not only BJP, but Congress to face INDIA allies in 92 out of 232 seats

Live Mint  

The Congress, seen as the primary contender to challenge the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party rule in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, will also be battling against its partners of INDIA coalition in 92 out of the state's 230 Assembly constituencies. {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} Of these 92 seats, 26 are those where the party will be electorally combating against not one but two INDIA …

Notification issued for Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls; process of filing nominations begins
1 year, 2 months ago

Notification issued for Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls; process of filing nominations begins

The Hindu  

The process of filing of nominations for the next month's Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections began on October 21 with the issuance of notification for the polls, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer said here. The total number of service voters in the centrally-located State stood at 75,303, of whom 73,020 are men and 2,284 are women, taking the total …

Assembly Election Opinion Polls 2023 Madhya Pradesh Chattisgarh Rajasthan Telangana Mizoram ABP Cvoter Survey Seats Vote Share Results Congress BJP TRS
1 year, 2 months ago

Assembly Election Opinion Polls 2023 Madhya Pradesh Chattisgarh Rajasthan Telangana Mizoram ABP Cvoter Survey Seats Vote Share Results Congress BJP TRS

ABP News  

The Election Commission of India on Monday announced the schedule for assembly polls in five states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram. In contrast, the Congress is projected to win between 59 to 69 seats, holding a vote share of 42 per cent. The Congress is projected to secure a 44.6 per cent vote share, while the BJP …

Assembly elections 2023: State elections will test the waters for 2024 Lok Sabha race
1 year, 2 months ago

Assembly elections 2023: State elections will test the waters for 2024 Lok Sabha race

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 05, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ Be it the BJP’s Liberation Day or the BRS’ National Integration Day festivities in Hyderabad; be it the Janakrosh Yatra by the Congress in Madhya Pradesh or Arvind Kejriwal’s jal, jungle, zameen pitch in Bastar, electioneering has kicked in full throttle as the country gears up for elections in …

Can Congress use SC/ST seats to its advantage in Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls?
1 year, 2 months ago

Can Congress use SC/ST seats to its advantage in Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls?

India Today  

While caste has always been an important equation in electoral math, it’s likely to play a very big role in the next few Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In 2009, Congress led in 19 out of 35 SC-reserved seats with 41 per cent votes, and in 2018, it won 17 Assembly seats and received 42 per cent …

Data | How significant were BJP’s deposit losses in 13.8% of Karnataka’s seats?
1 year, 6 months ago

Data | How significant were BJP’s deposit losses in 13.8% of Karnataka’s seats?

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party lost deposits in 31 constituencies — 13.8% of the seats the party contested — in the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly elections. Scatter Plot 2 | The chart shows the States where the BJP won more than 10% of seats and plots the seats won by the BJP as a share of the seats it contested in …

5 elections, many possibilities: What to expect from polls in MP, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Telangana
1 year, 7 months ago

5 elections, many possibilities: What to expect from polls in MP, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Telangana

India Today  

Following the thumping victory of Congress in Karnataka, people are now looking towards Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Telangana. Chhattisgarh witnessed close elections in 2008 and 2013 when both major parties -- the BJP and the Congress -- had just a one per cent vote share gap. The BSP had received more than five per cent …

U.P. urban body polls | BJP wins 813 seats of corporators, Samajwadi Party bags 191
1 year, 7 months ago

U.P. urban body polls | BJP wins 813 seats of corporators, Samajwadi Party bags 191

The Hindu  

The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has won 813 out of the 1,420 seats in the corporators category in the State's urban local body polls, while the Opposition Samajwadi Party bagged 191 and the Bahujan Samaj Party 85. According to the State Election Commission, Samajwadi Party's Wasim defeated BJP's Rupesh for the post of Nagar Panchayat chairperson of Khetasarai in …

BJP claims winning all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh backfires says saffron party will lose all
1 year, 11 months ago

BJP claims winning all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh backfires says saffron party will lose all

India TV News  

Lok Sabha 2024: As the countdown begins for the general elections next year, major political players in Uttar Pradesh are beginning to make claims and counterclaims about the poll outcome. Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary said that his target for 2024 would be to win all 80 seats in the state. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has to be re-elected …

Bypoll results: BSP chief alleges ‘internal collusion’ between SP and BJP
2 years ago

Bypoll results: BSP chief alleges ‘internal collusion’ between SP and BJP

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Sunday raised doubts on the Samajwadi Party’s success in Mainpuri, and the Bharatiya Janata Party ’s victory in Rampur alleging ‘internal collusion’ between both the parties. ‘SP succeeded in the Mainpuri Parliamentary bypoll, but in the Rampur Assembly by-election, the SP’s defeat for the first time in Azam Khan’s seat due to planned low …

What Himachal verdict, Congress’s 1st win after 18 losses, means for the party
2 years ago

What Himachal verdict, Congress’s 1st win after 18 losses, means for the party

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: After almost four years and 18 losses in state elections, the Congress has finally won one, in Himachal Pradesh, defeating the BJP in a close contest, providing some succour from the battering it received in Gujarat. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed “heartfelt thanks” to Himachal Pradesh and added “I assure again, every promise made to the public will …

In electoral arena, BJP remains the party to beat
2 years ago

In electoral arena, BJP remains the party to beat

The Hindu  

On the face of it, the results of the Assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, and the municipal corporation elections in Delhi, gave every contender what they wanted — an even-stevens draw, with the BJP winning its seventh straight, record-breaking victory in Gujarat; the Congress wresting Himachal Pradesh; and the Aam Aadmi Party finally capturing the MCD. The disparate …

Bypoll results: SP defends Mainpuri bastion, BJP loses one, Cong retains 2
2 years ago

Bypoll results: SP defends Mainpuri bastion, BJP loses one, Cong retains 2

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party retained the high-profile Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, while the BJP wrested Rampur Sadar assembly seat in UP from it and Kurhani constituency in Bihar from the ruling Nitish Kumar-led alliance in results of the December 5 by-elections announced on Thursday. Dimple Yadav, the wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, defeated her nearest rival and BJP …

AAP lost to NOTA on 24 seats in Himachal Pradesh, losing deposits in almost all seats
2 years ago

AAP lost to NOTA on 24 seats in Himachal Pradesh, losing deposits in almost all seats

Op India  

On December 8, counting for Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat state assembly elections took place. A candidate must secure at least one-sixth or 16.7 per cent of the total valid votes cast in a constituency to save the deposit. On 52 seats, AAP could not secure even one per cent vote share, which speaks volumes about the party’s position in the …

Data | Who AAP gained the most from in the Gujarat Elections – Congress or the BJP?
2 years ago

Data | Who AAP gained the most from in the Gujarat Elections – Congress or the BJP?

The Hindu  

With AAP fielding 181 candidates in the 2022 Gujarat elections, who will the party gain the most seats/votes from — the Congress or the BJP? Click to remove AMP mode Table 2 breaks down the AAP’s vote share in 2022, in seats won by the BJP in 2017 and in seats won by the Congress in 2017. Here too the …

AAP\'s entry in Gujarat polls will dent BJP\'s urban vote-bank, Cong to benefit from it
2 years, 2 months ago

AAP\'s entry in Gujarat polls will dent BJP\'s urban vote-bank, Cong to benefit from it

Deccan Chronicle  

AHMEDABAD: Senior Congress leader Paresh Dhanani on Sunday said the entry of the Aam Aadmi Party into Gujarat's Assembly election arena will dent the urban and semi-urban vote-bank of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which will ultimately benefit the grand old party. Dhanani claimed that the AAP does not have a base in rural areas and it will pose a …

DC Edit | Bypolls show how BJP is eating into SP’s UP base
2 years, 5 months ago

DC Edit | Bypolls show how BJP is eating into SP’s UP base

Deccan Chronicle  

The results of the byelections held in three Lok Sabha constituencies, especially the two in the politically significant state of Uttar Pradesh, reflect the political reality of our times: An Opposition which has lost its focus and hardly has a narrative to present before the people and the ruling party which not only consolidates its own strongholds and vote banks …

Goa Assembly election results: Numbers game pitches BJP back to power
2 years, 9 months ago

Goa Assembly election results: Numbers game pitches BJP back to power

The Hindu  

Although the Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged comfortably victorious in Goa, it is the Aam Aadmi Party that can be considered a true winner in the tiny State. Sawant’s nemesis, however, is Vishwajit Rane, State Health Minister and son of former Chief Minister Pratap Singh Rane. He was certain there was enough anger directed at the BJP to make it …

Assembly Election Result 2022: 10 News18 Stories Explain Why the Scorecard Read 4-1
2 years, 9 months ago

Assembly Election Result 2022: 10 News18 Stories Explain Why the Scorecard Read 4-1

News 18  

From the first consecutive victory for an Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in 37 years to the first-ever consecutive victory for the ruling party in Uttarakhand to its solo win in Manipur, Assembly elections 2022 was a successful outing for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Defeats of former CM Harish Rawat from Lalkuna in Nainital and current Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami …

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