TMC sweeps Bengal bypolls, wins all four seats
The Hindu
Trinamool records 75% of votes, BJP vote share dips below 15%
Continuing its political dominance in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday won all four Assembly seats that held byelections on October 30. The State’s ruling party polled close to 75% of the votes while the opposition BJP managed to secure only 14.5% votes.
Of the four seats that went to polls, the TMC has won two of the seats that the BJP had won in May. The highest margin of victory was in the Dinhata Assembly seat, where the TMC’s Udayan Guha defeated the BJP’s Ashok Mondal by a margin of 1,64,089 votes. The BJP had won the seat in May, 2021 when Nisith Pramanik defeated Mr. Guha by a margin of only 57 votes.
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