Counting of votes for the bypolls for one Assembly and two parliamentary constituencies in Rajasthan is currently underway.
Congress candidate Vivek Dhakad won the Mandalgarh assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival, a BJP candidate, by nearly 13,000 votes.
After the 11th round of counting, 41-year-old Dhakad surged ahead of BJP candidate Shakti Singh Hada, who was leading in initial trends, and emerged as the winner.
He garnered 70,146 votes, defeating Hada by 12,976 votes.
Dhakad, a law graduate, had contested assembly election in 2013 as a Congress candidate from this seat but lost to Kumari by 18,540 votes.
Mandalgarh has traditionally been a Congress seat but last time the BJP had won the seat.
The Congress Party is leading on both the Lok Sabha seats from Alwar and Ajmer.
All the three seats fell vacant after the deaths of Ajmer MP Sanwar Lal Jat, Alwar MP Chand Nath and Mandalgarh MLA Kirti Kumari. All the three leaders were from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Bypolls were necessitated in these three seats due to the deaths of the sitting lawmakers. Ajmer MP Sanwar Lal Jat, Alwar MP Chand Nath and Mandalgarh MLA Kirti Kumari (all of BJP) passed away last year.
The Vasundhara Raje government in Rajasthan has already completed four years in office and these bypolls are being seen as an indicator of the public mood ahead of the state polls.
Counting of votes for West Bengal's Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency and the Noapara Assembly is also underway. Catch live updates here.
Live Updates here:
* Ajmer bypoll trends: Congress's Raghu Sharma leads by 21,882 votes
* Alwar bypoll trends: Congress's Karan Singh Yadav leads by 14,500
* Mandalgarh bypoll trends: BJP's Shakti Singh- 15,419, Congress' Vivek Dhakad- 8,296, Independent Gopal Malviya- 6,935, NOTA- 933
* Ajmer Lok Sabha bypoll trends: Congress's Raghu Sharma- 39,993, BJP's Ram Swaroop Lamba- 31070
* Alwar Lok Sabha bypoll trends: Congress leading by 30,595 votes
* Initial trends from Rajasthan bypolls are a mandate against the Govt, I hope our leads will increase even more. Vasundhara ji and her Govt have been totally rejected by people: Sachin Pilot, Congress
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