Bypoll results LIVE: Modi, Shah get wake-up call from Kairana before 2019

Kairana by-election results will serve as a test case for a united Opposition against the PM Narendra Modi-led BJP. Catch all the live updates here

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Uttar Pradesh's ruling BJP on Thursday stared at a major electoral upset with the joint Opposition candidate, RLD's Tabassum Hasan, leading by over 39,000 votes in the Kairana Lok Sabha constituency. 

 

Hasan, supported by the Congress, SP and the BSP, established an early lead over BJP's Mriganka Singh right from the beginning to establish an almost invincible lead by noon. After 17 rounds of counting, Hasan polled 321,311 votes, while Mriganka Singh got 282,289 votes, the election office said. 

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Kerala's ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front's (LDF's) Saji Cheriyan on Thursday won the Chengannur Assembly bypoll by a huge margin of 20,956 votes over his nearest Congress rival, officials said. According to the Chief Electoral Office, Cheriyan polled 67,303 votes while the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate D Vijaykumar got 46,347 votes and BJP's P S Sreedharan Pillai came third with 35,270 votes. 

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The opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is set to wrest an Assembly seat from the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar where it was leading by over 34,000 votes, officials said on Thursday.

 

After trailing in the initial round of counting, the RJD established a comfortable lead of over 31,000 against JD-U in the bypolls to the Jokihat Assembly seat in Bihar on Thursday, according to the Election Commission officials. 

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CPI-M was leading with 20,956 votes from the Chengannur Assembly seat, according to news agency ANI.

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CPI-M candidate Saji Cherian, with a lead of around 12,000 votes as counting crossd the halfway mark in the Chengannur Assembly bypoll in Kerala, was heading towards a comfortable victory on Thursday. 

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JMM candidate Seema Mahto was leading over her rival, All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) President Sudesh Mahto, by 660 votes for the Silli Assembly bypoll, after the eighth round of counting. 

 

The votes would be counted over 15 rounds, an election official said.

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BJP candidate Madhavlal Singh was leading over his nearest JMM rival Babita Devi by 8,700 votes after eight rounds of counting for the Gomia Assembly constituency bypoll in Jharkhand, EC sources said.

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