Bypolls in 3 Lok Sabha, 33 assembly seats across 10 states Saturday Sep 13,2014

 

Three Lok Sabha and 33 Assembly seats are going to bypolls on Saturday Sep 13,2014 with the results crucial for both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance and the opposition parties who are yet to recover from the massive mauling in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
 

The resignations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Vadodara, Mulayam Singh Yadav from Mainpuri and K Chandrashekhararao from Medak Lok Sabha seats have necessitated the bypolls for the lok sabha seats

33 assembly seats are also going to bypolls across Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam, Gujarat, Tripura, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Sikkim.  The Details of constituencies that goes to the polls are -
Three Lok Sabha seats:
Vadodara - Gujarat
Mainpuri - UP
Medak - Telangana
Assembly Seats - UP - 11:
Saharanpur Nagar
Bijnor
Thakurdwara
Noida
Nighasan
Lucknow East
Hamirpur
Charkari
Sirathu
Balha
Rohaniya
Rajasthan - 4
Surajgarh
Weir
Nasirabad
Kota South
Gujarat - 9
Deesa
Maninagar
Tankara
Khambalia
Mangrol
Talaja
Anand
Matar
Limkheda
West Bengal - 2
Basirath Dakshin
Chowrangee
Andhra Pradesh - 1
Nandigama
Sikkim - 1
Rangang - Yangang
Chhattisgarh - 1
Antagarh
TRIPURA - 1
Manu


In Uttar Pradesh, 11 assembly seats are going to bypolls. Out of 11 seats, 10 seats were held by the BJP and one by its ally Apna Dal

2014 Assembly bypolls

State	Constituencies
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow (East), Charkhari, Sirathu, Balha, Rohania, Nighasan, Saharanpur city, Bijnore, Thalurdwara, Noida, and Hamirpur
West Bengal	Basirhat Dakshin, Chowringhee
Andhra Pradesh	Nandigama
Rajasthan	Nasirabad, Weir, Surajgarh, Kota (South)
Assam	Silchar, Lakhipur, Jamunamukh
Tripura	Manu
Chhatisgarh	Antagarh
Sikkim	Rangang-Yangang
Gujarat	Deesa, Maninagar, Tankara, Khambhalia, Mangrol, Talaja, Anand, Matar, Limkheda

2014 Lok Sabha bypolls

State	Constituencies	Key candidates
Uttar Pradesh	Mainpuri	Prem Singh Shakya (BJP), Tej Pratap Singh Yadav (SP),
Telangana	Medak	Jayaprakash Reddy T (BJP), Vakiti Sunitha Laxma Reddy (INC), Kotha Prabhakar Reddy (TRS)
Gujarat	Vadodara	Ranjanaben Dhananjay Bhatt (BJP), Narendra Ambalal Ravat (INC),

The votes will be counted on September 16,2014

By-Polls Pollings Details
 


By-Polls Results




 

As the results of the latest round of by-polls came in on Tuesday, the BJP won only a disappointing 12  of the 32 Assembly seats at stake across nine states. 

The Congress got nine, and the Samajwadi Party eight, but the BJP’s sorrow was in the geography of the results, not just the arithmetic. 

It lost seven of the eight Assembly seats it had held in Uttar Pradesh to the Samajwadi Party, while the Congress rose from its ashes in Rajasthan to take three seats of the four the BJP held, and three of its nine in fortress Gujarat.

The only consolation was the BJP’s electoral debut in West Bengal, where it won one of the two seats up for grabs

Rajastan Results

In Rajasthan, the electorate sent a clear signal to Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to deliver and not take them for granted. 

Of the four Assembly seats that went to the by-polls, the BJP lost three to the Congress and retained Kota (South) with a victory margin reduced by half of what it was in the 2013 Assembly elections.

Uttar Pradesh Results

Of the 10 Assembly seats it contested in the September 13 byelections, the BJP lost seven. The 10 seats - Noida, Saharanpur Nagar, Lucknow East, Thakurdwara, Bijnor, Nighasan, Balha, Sirathu, Hamirpur and Charkhari - had fallen vacant following the resignation of BJP MLAs who won in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The party could retain only Noida, Saharanpur and Lucknow East, and lost the rest to SP candidates. 

The Rohaniya Assembly seat, which was with the BJP's ally Apna Dal, was snatched by the SP's Mahendra Patel. This seat was vacated by Anupriya Patel after her election from the Mirzapur Lok Sabha seat. 

Observers say that most BJP MPs had defied party president Amit Shah’s instructions to work as in-charge of election campaigns in the constituencies they had vacated. 

These MPs - including Kunwar Sarvesh Singh, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Ajay Mishra, Savitribai Phule, Kirti Vardhan Singh and Keshav Prasad Maurya - not only stayed away from the campaign but also worked against BJP candidates, because their wishes to field their family members or cronies as candidates were rejected. 

Ram Kumar Verma, the BJP candidate who lost from Nighasan Assembly seat to SP’s Krishna Gopal Patel by a margin of 18,900 votes, alleged: “Our party’s Lakhimpur Kheri MP Ajay Mishra was working against me because the central leadership had rejected his candidate. Mishra had deployed his men to campaign against me in favour of the SP candidate.”

Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti also blamed the local leaders for the loss.

“We lost these seats because of the local BJP leaders. We need to analyse what were they doing. The candidate selection process was faulty,” she said. 

Geeta Singh, the BJP candidate from Charkhari in Bundelkhand, was, however, Bharti’s choice. Singh came third.

It was the same story in the neighbouring Hamirpur Assembly seat, vacated by BJP’s Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti after she was elected to the Lok Sabha. BJP candidate Jagdish Vyas lost by 68,000 votes to the SP’s Shivcharan Prajapati.

In western Uttar Pradesh, BJP’s Rajeev Gumber won against SP’s Sanjay Garg by a margin of over 26,000 votes in Saharanpur Nagar, where communal riots had taken place in July. But in Moradabad’s Thakurdwara, which had also witnessed riots around the same time, BJP’s Rajpal Singh lost to SP’s Nawab Jan by a margin of 27,000 votes.

Gorakhpur MP and BJP star campaigner Yogi Adityanath said: “The SP government shamelessly used the state machinery and didn't let me hold rallies in four Assembly constituencies. This could be the reason for SP's victory in seven seats. We also need to find out what kind of process was adopted in ticket distribution and what was happening in the organisation.” 

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the sense of detachment of the voters from BJP following “diminishing popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi because of his false claim of bringing good days after winning elections” was an important reason behind the loss of BJP. 

“I also believe that raking up communal issues cannot ensure BJP’s victory in every election. The voters have rejected the divisive politics of BJP and went with our developmental agenda,” Yadav said.

Gujarat Results

The by-elections to the nine Assembly seats and the lone Vadodara Lok Sabha seat were billed as the first big test for Modi’s protégé and Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. 

The BJP won the prestigious Vadodara seat with the city’s deputy mayor Ranjan Bhatt cornering it by a margin of 3.29 lakh, two lakhs less than Modi himself.

Besides the Vadodara parliamentary seat,BJP retained Maninagar, Tankara, Talaja, Anand, Matar and Limkheda Assembly seats

 But the loss of three Assembly seats is believed to be a setback for Anandiben. 

The by-election results were unexpected given that the BJP had completely wiped out the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls, bagging all the 26 seats in Gujarat

The Congress party, which itself never believed it would win even a single seat given the Modi impact and its candidates mostly being unknown, was surprised at the results.

The Congress Party wrested Deesa in North Gujarat and Mangrol as well as Khambhalia in Saurashtra.

List of winners (Assembly by-polls)

State	Constituencies	Winner	Party
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow (East)	Ashutosh Tondon	BJP
	Charkhari	Kaptan Singh	SP
	Sirathu	Vachaspati	SP
	Balha	Banshidhar Bauddh	SP
	Rohaniya	Mahendra Singh Patel	SP
	Nighasan	Krishana Gopal Patel	SP
	Saharanpur Nagar	Rajeev Gumber	BJP
	Bijnore	Ruchiveera	SP
	Thakurwara	Navab Jan	SP
	Noida	Vimla Batham	BJP
	Hamirpur	Shivcharan Prajapati	SP
West Bengal	Basirhat Dakshin	Samik Bhattacharya	BJP
	Chowringhee	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	TMC
Andhra Pradesh	Nandigama	Tangirala Sowmya	TDP
Rajasthan	Nasirabad	Ramnarayan	Congress
	Weir	Bhajanlal	Congress
	Surajgarh	Sharwan Kumar	Congress
	Kota (South)	Sandeep Sharma	BJP
Assam	Silchar	Dilip Kumar Paul	BJP
	Lakhipur	Rajdeep Goala	Congress
	Jamunamukh	Abdur Rahim Ajmal	AIUDF
Tripura	Manu	Pravat Chowdhury	CPI(M)
Sikkim	Rangang-Yangang	Rup Narayan Chamling	IND
Gujarat	Deesa	Rabari Govabhai	Congress
	Maninagar	Patel Sureshbhai Dhanjibhai	BJP
	Tankara	Metaliya Bavanjibhai Hansrajbhai	BJP
	Khambhalia	Ahir Meraman	Congress
	Mangrol	Vaja Babubhai	Congress
	Talaja	Gohil Shivabhai Jerambhai	BJP
	Anand	Patel Rohitbhai Jashubhai	BJP
	Matar	Kesrisinh Jesangbhai Solanki	BJP
	Limkheda	Bhuriya Vichhiyabhai Jokhnabhai	BJP

List of winners (Lok Sabha by-polls)

State	Constituency	Winner	Party
Uttar Pradesh	Mainpuri	Tej Pratap Singh Yadav	SP
Telangana	Medak	Kotha Prabhakar Reddy	TRS
Gujarat	Vadodara	Ranjanaben Dhananjay Bhatt	BJP