By-election results 2020: BJP wins big in Assembly by-polls

In a clean sweep, the ruling BJP on Tuesday won all the eight assembly seats in Gujarat where by-elections were held, dealing a blow to the opposition Congress which had bagged these constituencies in 2017. The BJP has also so far won 12 out of the 28 assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh.

Bypolls were held for 58 Assembly constituencies in 11 states. The votes for the November 3 bye-elections were counted along with the ballots for the Bihar polls and progressed in accordance with Election Commission's guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won six of the seven seats in the UP bypolls, while Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged one seat. The Samajwadi Party retained the Malhani assembly seat with its nominee Lucky Yadav defeating Independent candidate Dhananjaya Singh by a margin of 4,632 votes.

The BJP won all three Assembly constituencies where the party contested in the byelections in Manipur, while an Independent candidate backed by the saffron camp secured one seat, the results of which were announced on Tuesday, officials said. In a closely fought bypoll in Wangoi seat, ruling BJP's candidate Oinam Lukhoi Singh defeated coalition partner National People's Party nominee Khuraijam Loken Singh by 257 votes.

BJP candidate M Raghunandan Rao on Tuesday won the by-election to the Dubbak Assembly constituency bypoll in Telangana,the Election Commission said.

Votes were also counted for the by-elections in Manipur (five seats), Haryana (one), Chhattisgarh (one), Jharkhand (two), Karnataka (two), Nagaland (two), Odisha (two) and Telangana (one).