Gujarat Bypoll Results 2020
Counting of votes got underway Tuesday morning for bypolls held for eight Assembly seats in Gujarat, and the results will indicate the popularity of former Congress MLAs who contested as BJP candidates. The counting began at 8 am in eight centres set up in these constituencies, an election official said.
Gujarat Bypoll Results Latest Updates:
- BJP wins 3 seats ---Abdasa, Morbi and Karjan assembly seats and leads on 5 seats.
- BJP's Pradhyumansinh Jadeja beats his Congress rival Shantilal Senghani by a margin of 36,778 votes from Abdasa Assembly seat in Kutch district of Gujarat
- BJP is near to winning all eight seats. This is the trailer for the upcoming elections, says Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, in Gandhinagar
- Bharatiya Janata Party leaders show victory sign as the party leads on all eight Gujarat Assembly seats which voted in by-polls
- BJP leading on all eight Gujarat Assembly seats which voted in by-polls, as per Election Commission trends
- After six rounds of counting, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading in seven out of the 8 Assembly constituencies. Congress party is ahead in one seat.
- BJP takes lead on four out of the eight Gujarat Assembly seats which voted in by-polls, as per Election Commission trends.
The bypolls were necessitated after sitting Congress MLAs resigned ahead of Rajya Sabha polls in June this year. Five of them then joined the ruling BJP, which fielded them from the same seats they had won in the 2017 elections.
A 60.75 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the bypolls held on November 3 in Abdasa (Kutch), Limbdi (Surendranagar), Morbi (Morbi district), Dhari (Amreli), Gadhada (Botad), Karjan (Vadodara), Dang (Dang district) and Kaprada (Valsad) Assembly seats. As many as 81 candidates contested the bypolls across the eight seats.
The Election Commission's guidelines on COVID-19 are in place so that counting agents do not assemble in large numbers at the counting centres, the official said. Altogether 320 persons have been deployed on counting duty amid tight security, he said.
Counting staff and others allowed inside the counting centres have been provided face masks, gloves and hand sanitizers, he said
