NDA wins 26 seats, Congress 12 of 51 assembly bypolls across 18 states

Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM on Thursday sprung a surprise in the bypoll to Kishanganj assembly constituency of Bihar, signalling that the party may finally get a foothold in the state's politics. Qamrul Hoda, who had initially faced rebellion from within the party, emerged as the dark horse by winning Kishanganj seat by 11,000 votes.

Congress candidate Kantilal Bhuria took a lead of 12,547 votes against his BJP rival Bhanu Bhuria as results of 13th round of counting were announced for Jhabua assembly byelection.

Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Tamang aka PS Golay won the bypoll to the Poklok Kamrang assembly seat by 8,953 votes. The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) founder defeated his nearest rival Moses Rai of the Sikkim Democratic Front, an election official said. While Golay registered 10,811 votes, Rai polled 1,858 votes. The SKM supremo secured 84 per cent of the 12,870 votes polled in the seat on October 21.

CPIM candidate and Thiruvananthapuram Mayor VK Prasanth on Thursday won the prestigious Vatiyoorkavu assembly constituency in Kerala by a margin of 14,251 votes, poll officials said.

Pratapgarh byelection trend after 14th round: Rajkumar Pal of BJP-Apna Dal (S)- 28469 votes, Neeraj Tripathi of Congress - 13019 votes

Balajied Kupar Synrem of the United Democratic Party (UDP) is leading over his nearest rival Grace Mary Kharpuri, an independent candidate, by over 5,000 votes in the by-poll to Shella Assembly constituency in Meghalaya.

Congress candidate in Dharmshala Vijay Inder Karan lost his security deposit in the bypoll as he failed to get even the required one-sixth of the total votes polled. Karan could get only 8,212 votes out of the valid 5,2485 votes polled. He got 15.64 per cent votes whereas he was required to get 16.67 per cent (one-sixth) of total valid votes to save his deposit.