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West Bengal byelection results LIVE: Four Assembly seats in West Bengal elected their new MLAs on Saturday. In a major blow to the BJP, they lost three of their sitting seats ― Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin and Bagdah ― to the TMC. The by-elections were necessitated after the BJP’s sitting MLAs resigned and unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls on TMC tickets. Maniktala, the fourth seat, has been lying vacant since 2022 following the demise of Trinamool MLA Sadhan Pande. Mamata's party managed to win here as well.
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Krishna Kalyani of AITC won Raiganj by a margin of 50,077 votes. He polled 86,479 votes against BJP candidate Manas Kumar Ghosh's tally of 36402. Mohit Sengupta of Congress finish third with 23,116 votes.
Krishna Kalyani, who won from Raiganj on a BJP ticket, defected to the Trinamool in October 2021. Later, he resigned the seat and contested the Lok Sabha polls from the Raiganj parliament seat, but lost to Kartick Paul of the BJP. Manas Kumar Ghosh had defected from the TMC last year.
Madhuparna Thakur, daughter of Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Mamata Bala Thakur, won by a margin of 33,455 votes. While the youngster polled 1,07,706 votes, BJP's Binay Kumar Biswas got 74,251. Left-Congress alliance candidate Gouraditya Biswas fell far behind polling just 8,189.
The biggest challenge for the 25-year-old Madhuparna was to overcome the influence of her cousin, Union Minister Shantanu Thakur, particularly because of his leadership role in the All India Matua Mahasangha, the most important socio-religious organisation of the community. The pro-Trinamool faction of the organisation was led by Mamata Bala Thakur, who seems to have done a good job.
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Mukut Mani Adhikari switched over to the Trinamool and contested the Lok Sabha elections from the Ranaghat constituency. He lost to the BJP’s Jagannath Sarkar by over 1.8 lakh votes. However, he managed to remain the MLA from Ranaghat Dakshin by beating BJP's Manoj Kumar Biswas by a margin of 39,048 votes. The victorious Adhikari got 1,13,533 votes, not long after conceding a lead of around 35,000 votes in his own assembly segment during the LS polls.
To secure the 1,097 polling booths across the four constituencies, the EC had deployed around 70 companies of central forces. There are around 10 lakh voters across the four assembly segments.
Here are the results of the byelections held in four Assembly seats of West Bengal:
Assembly byelections 2024
On July 10, Wednesday, 13 Assembly constituencies across seven states including Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Tamil Nadu witnessed byelections. The Assembly seats going to polls are Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala (West Bengal); Badrinath and Manglaur (Uttarakhand); Jalandhar West (Punjab); Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh (Himachal Pradesh); Rupauli (Bihar); Vikravandi (Tamil Nadu) and Amarwara (Madhya Pradesh).
