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Asked if the ruling coalition will be able to bag 100 seats, as claimed by the saffron camp ahead of the polls, he said, The trends are completely in favour of the BJP. The party will achieve its target. However, we will have to wait for the final results.
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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal claps with artists during an election campaign rally
Elated over the initial trends of Assam poll results, which showed that the BJP has an edge over its rivals, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday exuded confidence that the saffron party-led alliance will retain power in the state. The ruling BJP-led NDA is surging ahead of the Grand Alliance spearheaded by the Congress in Assam, leading in 77 of the 119 seats, trends available on the Election Commission website at 12.15 pm showed.
According to the Election Commission website, Satish Jarkiholi of the Congress was ahead with 2,75,375 votes over BJP s Mangala Angadi, who secured 2,63,474 votes in the latest round of counting.Jark
Rajasthan bypoll results: BJP wins Rajsamand assembly seat; Cong leading in two constituencies
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Last Updated: May 02, 2021, 04:14 PM IST
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The Congress is leading in two seats and the BJP in one seat in the initial rounds of counting of votes for three assembly seats in Rajasthan.
BJP s Deepti Maheshwari has won the bypolls to the Rajsamand assembly seat, while the Congress is leading in the by-elections to the Sahada and Sujangarh constituencies in Rajasthan, according to Election Commission figures.
Over 60.37 per cent voters had exercised their franchise in the April 17 by-elections to the Rajsamand, Sujangarh and Sahada assembly seats.
With the CPI(M)-led LDF set to return to power in Kerala, the party s general secretary Sitaram Yechury in a video message on Sunday thanked the state s electorate
Both sides broadly played to their strengths. DMK’s tally was boosted by its performance in urban segments where it won 40 of its 156 seats while AIADMK had a better score in the rural parts, which elected 61 of its 78 MLAs. In seats with a minority electorate of over 20%, AIADMK surprisingly did not concede much ground despite the BJP being its alliance partner. It won 7 out of 27 such constituencies while the rest went to the DMK.
EPS government’s poll-eve order allocating a 10.5% sub-quota within the most backward caste category to vanniyars apparently to keep the PMK on its side seems to have resulted in a backlash from AIADMK’s thevar base in southern TN. The western region where gounders (the community the CM belongs to) are predominant still gave it its biggest chunk of seats.