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Gopal Kanda: BJP has a lot to answer for Haryana's new kingmaker

The BJP has also been criticised for the mismatch between seeking support from a rape accused and its much-publicised Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign

Election results: BJP-Sena retains Maharashtra, hung House in Haryana

PM Modi indicated Maharashtra CM and Haryana CM would continue

Assembly election results: BJP may take Haryana after tough fight

The BJP was set to form the government with some of the independents and small parties

Son rises for the Sena: Aaditya Thackeray wins from Worli Assembly seat

Aaditya Thackeray has been given charge of the Yuva Sena and is tussling with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad

Haryana, Maharashtra election results show local issues, economy matter

In Haryana, a predominantly rural state, crop prices have been constantly falling for the past two years

Election results: Fadnavis' homeland rejects BJP, richer areas shock Sena

The Congress, which had won 10 seats in the region in 2014, won 17 this time

By-election results throw up a rude surprise for some turncoats

There was good news for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, with the party winning seven of the 11 seats that had bypolls

Punjab Assembly by-elections: Congress wins three seats, Akalis bag one

Manpreet Singh Ayali of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won over Sandeep Singh Sandhu of Congress and secured 66297 votes against Sandhu's 51625, from Dakha Assembly constituency

MP assembly bypoll: Congress wrests back Jhabua constituency from BJP

Congress candidate and former Union minister Kantilal Bhuria won by margin of over 27,804 votes, defeating BJP's Bhanu Bhuria, who was contesting his maiden election, an official said

Paswan's nephew Prince Raj wins LS bypoll to retain Samastipur seat for LJP

Raj, whose father Ram Chandra Paswan had won the seat in the general elections for a second consecutive term, defeated Ashok Kumar of the Congress by over 1.02 lakh votes

Maharashtra, Haryana election results a setback for BJP: Kerala CM

BJP's tally in both Maharashtra and Haryana was less than the number of seats they won in 2014 assembly elections

UP Assembly bypolls: SP wrests 1 seat from BJP, NDA gets three; BSP bags 1

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in five seats, while the Samajwadi Party (SP) was ahead in Rampur and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Jalalpur

Rajasthan bypoll: Congress wins Mandawa seat, BJP ally RLP retains Khinwsar

The Congress' Rita Chaudhary defeated her nearest rival the BJP's Sushila Sigra in the Mandawa seat in Jhunjhunu by a margin of 33,704 votes

AIADMK bags 2 bypolls seats in Tamil Nadu, Congress 1 in Puducherry

The AIADMK candidates won the Vikravandi and Nanguneri Assembly seats while the Congress bagged the Kamaraj Nagar seat in Puducherry

TRS wins Huzurnagar by-election by a huge margin of 43,000 votes

The by-election drew a lot of attention from the public and the media as the two main rival political parties took the the election as a challenge

Odisha bypoll results: BJD's Rita Sahu wins Bijepur seat with record margin

Rita Sahu secured 1,35,957 votes while her nearest rival Sanat Gartia of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 37, 967 votes

Kerala bypoll results: CPI(M)-led LDF wins three seats, UDF bags only one

The UDF candidate T J Vinod won the Ernakulam seat by a margin of 3,750 votes defeating Manu Roy (LDF-IND).

Punjab bypoll results: Congress wins Phagwara, Jalalabad assembly seats

Congress candidate Raminder Awla defeated SAD nominee Raj Singh Dibipura by 16,633 votes from Jalalabad, considered an Akali bastion.

Chhattisgarh bypoll results: Congress's wins Chitrakote assembly seat

The Assembly constituency in the Naxals affected area of the state had 229 polling booths out of which 213 were in Bastar district and 16 in Sukma district.

Rajasthan bypoll results: Congress's Rita Chaudhary wins Mandawa seat

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot and deputy chief minister and Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee president Sachin Pilot congratulated Chaudhary on the victory.