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Byelection Sept. 2014: Final results & List of winning parties and candidates
September 16, 2014 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
New Delhi, India: The BJP suffered a major blow in the assembly byelections in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, which it had swept in the Lok Sabha polls four months ago. The saffron party lost 13 of the 23 seats held by it.
Indian National Congress that had faced major defeat in last Lok Sabha elections was able to snatch 6 assembly seats from BJP – 3 each in BJP stronghold Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Considered yet another test of popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today’s reverses come on top of the party’s disappointing performance in the assembly byelections in Bihar, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh in the last two months.
Out of the 32 assembly seats across nine states for which counting of votes was taken up today, BJP won 12, Congress 7 and Samajwadi Party 8 while TDP, Trinamool Congress, AIUDF and CPI(M) bagged one each. One seat in Sikkim was won by an Independent. Counting in Antagarh in Chhattisgarh, held by BJP, will be taken up on September 20.
All the seats in Uttar Pradesh (11), Gujarat (9) and Rajasthan (4) were held by BJP and the bypolls were necessitated after the MLAs were elected to the Lok Sabha.
It was Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP was on a high after a near-total sweep of the 80 Lok Sabha seats, that delivered a humiliating blow to the saffron party as it lost 7 of the 10 seats held by it as well as one belonging to its ally Apna Dal to the ruling Samajwadi Party.
BSP’s absence in the byelections had made it a virtual straight fight between BJP and SP, which has bounced back after the drubbing in Lok Sabha polls.
According to Times of India (TOI), [t]he saffron party’s campaign on issues like ‘Love Jihad’ also apparently did not bring them any electoral gains.
“Equally crushing was the defeat in Rajasthan where BJP conceded three of the four seats to Congress, which also managed to wrest three of the nine seats in Gujarat, where the elections were held for the first time in 12 years sans Narendra Modi” TOI report notes.
Vidhan Sabha vise telly:
|
Vidhan Sabha |
Total |
BJP |
Cong |
SP |
TMC |
TDP |
CPM |
Others |
|
Assam |
3 |
1 |
1 |
– |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
|
Gujarat |
9 |
3 (-3) |
3 (+3) |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Rajashtan |
4 |
1 (-3) |
3 (+3) |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Sikkim |
1 |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
|
Seemandhra |
1 |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
– |
||
|
Tripura |
1 |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
– |
|
Uttar Pradesh |
11 |
3 (-7) |
– |
8 (+7) |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
West Bengal |
2 |
1 |
1 |
– |
1 (+1) |
– |
– |
– |
|
Total |
32 |
9 (-13) |
8 (+6) |
8 (+7) |
1 (+1) |
1 |
1 |
1 |
.
Constituency vise Winning Candidate and Party:
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