🐼BJP candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan sweeps Samajwadi Party leader Ajit Prasad in the Milkipur constituency. DMK is expected to win easily in Erode East, Tamil Nadu.
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚThe result for the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh's Milkipur and Tamil Nadu's Erode East constituencies will be declared today, alongside the Delhi assembly election results. The counting of votes for the two bypolls began at 8 am with postal ballots, followed by EVM votes.
𒁏The bypoll in Milkipur was necessitated when SP leader Awadhesh Prasad vacated the seat after winning the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
🎉The bypoll in Erode (east) was necessitated by the death of Congress legislator E.V.K.S. Elangovan.
♓According to the election commission, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Chandrabhan Paswan defeated the Samajwadi Party candidate Ajit Prasad by more than 61,000 votes.
𓃲According to official figures from the Election Commission, Chandrabhanu Paswan of the BJP party got 1,46,397 votes.
𝓡The 370,829 voters of this constituency reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) will decide the fate of the 10 candidates in the fray, but the main contest is between Ajit Prasad of the Samajwadi Party and Chandrabhanu Paswan of the BJP.
🐈According to the Election Commission's data, DMK's V.C. Chandhirakumar has taken the lead against NTK's M.K. Seethalakshmi.
🌃The DMK candidate is leading by 7,837 votes, while the NTK candidate trails by a margin of 6,756 votes.
🧔A total of 46 candidates, including 44 independents, contested the election, but the real contest was between the ruling DMK candidate V.C. Chandhirakumar and NTK leader M.K. Seethalakshmi.
♛Notably, opposition parties, including the main opposition AIADMK, boycotted the polls.