Politics
Bypoll results explained: What they mean for the BJP, TVK and AINRC
Counting on October 9 gave the BJP the Nandigram, Rejinagar and Nagaon seats, the TVK both Tamil Nadu seats of Madurantakam and Dharapuram, and the AINRC the Puducherry seat of Thattanchavady, with margins differing slightly between reports.
The BJP won three of the six seats, in West Bengal and Assam.
The ruling TVK won both Tamil Nadu seats.
The AINRC won in Puducherry.
A bypoll fills a vacancy and does not change who governs.
Margins differ slightly between reports.
In Rejinagar, the BJP’s Shankharavh Sarkar won with 1,29,914 votes, ahead of the AJUP’s Golam Nabi Azad with 54,098 votes, according to ETV Bharat.
Rejinagar’s margin was 75,816 votes in the main report, and other live items gave figures such as 75,691.
In Assam’s Nagaon Lok Sabha seat, the BJP’s Devasish Sharma won, ahead of the AIUDF’s Badruddin Ajmal.
The Sentinel reported Sharma’s margin as 1,42,224 votes, while ETV Bharat gave 1,40,257, so the margin is about 1.4 lakh.
The Congress’s Sibamoni Bora finished third in Nagaon, according to the Sentinel.
Assam Chief Minister called the win a tribute to the Prime Minister’s leadership, according to ETV Bharat.
In Tamil Nadu, the ruling TVK won both Madurantakam and Dharapuram.
In Madurantakam, TVK’s K. Maragatham Kumaravel won by about 20,000 votes over the DMK, according to India TV and ETV Bharat.
A live blog by DT Next gave an earlier-stage margin of 19,312 for Madurantakam, so the final margin should be checked against the Election Commission’s figures.
In Dharapuram, TVK’s Sathyabama polled 66,841 votes against 57,370 for the DMK, and the margin was 9,471 votes, according to ETV Bharat.
The DMK finished second in both Tamil Nadu seats and the AIADMK third, according to ETV Bharat.
In Puducherry’s Thattanchavady, the AINRC’s Ashok Anand won by 8,482 votes over the Congress’s E. Vinayagam, according to India TV.
Anand polled 13,358 votes against 4,876 for Vinayagam, and the DMK’s K. Sethu got 2,664.
The seat fell vacant because N. Rangasamy won two constituencies in April 2026 and kept Mangalam.
Rangasamy had won Thattanchavady by 4,441 votes in April, so the margin of 8,482 is nearly double that.
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