Bye-elections results LIVE: BJP wins MP, Assam and Arunanchal

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the bye-elections in Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Arunanchal Pradesh on Tuesday. The Trinamool Congress has won Bengal while AIADMK registered its win in Tamil Nadu.

Counting of rest of the votes was underway for four Lok Sabha and eight Assembly Constituencies, spread across six States (West Bengal, Assam, Arunanchal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura and Tamil Nadu) and one Union Territory (Puducherry) where bye-elections were held on Saturday.

Live updates of the counting:

4:15pm: Trinamool Congress retained all three seats in West Bengal by-poll (Two LS and one assembly seat).

4:00pm: North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) candidate Dasanglu Pul, contesting on BJP ticket, has won the Hayuliang Assembly by-poll after defeating her lone rival Yompi Kri, an Independent candidate, by 942 votes.

3:40pm: In West Bengal; TMC candidate Partha Pratim Roy has won Cooch Behar Lok Sabha seat by 4,13,231 votes.

3:20 PM: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee said, “The bye-election result is a befitting reply against the anti-people demonetisation by the Centre. It’s a people’s revolt, rather than a mass revolt against the center. BJP should take lessons from this mandate.”

3:11 PM: Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy will be inducted as a member of the House tomorrow. He has won the Nellithope Assembly by-poll,.

3:01 PM: BJP candidate Mansing Rongpi leads over his nearest Congress rival Rupensing Ronghang by 4,835 votes in Assam‘s Baithalangso.

2:51 PM: AIADMK’s V Senthil Balaji leads by a good margin over his nearest DMK rival K C Palanisamy in Aravakkurichi and AIADMK candidate A K Bose was ahead his nearest rival, DMK candidate P Saravanan in Thirupparankundram Assembly segment.

2:35pm: BJP’s Gyan Singh wins Lok Sabha seat from Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh)

1:55pm: BJP has won the bye-election from the Nepanagar assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh.

1:45pm: AIADMK wins by 26,483 votes on Thanjavur assembly seat in Tamil Nadu.

1:25pm: TMC’s Dibyendu Adhikari wins Tamluk Lok Sabha seat by 4,97,528 votes, defeating his nearest CPI(M) rival Mandira Panda by 4.97 lakh votes in West Bengal.

1:10pm: Senior Congress leader and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy won the Nellithope Assembly constituency defeating AIADMK’s Om Sakthi Segar. Segar was defeated by a margin of 11,144 votes.