Bypoll election results: AAP wins 2 seats, Trinamool & BJP 1 each; Congress wins in Kerala
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New Delhi: In the assembly by-polls held for five seats across four states, AAP won two while the BJP Congress and Trinamool Congress won one seat each.In Gujarat, the ruling BJP retained Kadi in Mehsana district, while AAP retained Visavadar in Junagarh. AAP also retained the Ludhiana West seat in Punjab. Trinamool Congress retained the Kaliganj seat while Congress snatched the Nilambur seat from the CPM in Kerala.AAP candidate Sanjeev Arora won the Ludhiana West assembly seat by a margin of 10,637 votes, an improvement over the previous margin of 7,512 votes in 2022. The seat fell vacant after the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Gogi. Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu got 24,542 votes while BJP candidate Jiwan Gupta got 20,323 votes.In Gujarat, BJP's Rajendra Chavda defeated Congress candidate Ramesh Chavda by a margin of 38,904 votes in Kadi. In Visavadar, AAP's Gopal Italia bagged 75,906 votes against BJP's Kirit Patel's 58,325 votes, while Congress's Nitin Ranpariya got 5,491 votes. With this, BJP now has 162 members in the 182-seat assembly while Congress has 12, AAP five and there are three independents.In West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress retained the Kaliganj seat with party candidate Alifa Ahemed winning the seat by a margin of 50,049 votes. BJP candidate Ashish Ghosh stood second with 52,710 votes while Congress candidate Kabil Uddin Shaikh got 28,348 votes.The Congress wrested the Nilambur Assembly seat in Kerala, marking a morale booster for the United Democratic Front (UDF) against the ruling CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the run-up to next year's assembly elections. The Congress candidate Aryadan Shoukath defeated CPM's M Swaraj by 11,077 votes.
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