Counting of votes was completed on Wednesday, according to the state election commissioner. No incident was reported from the state and the counting was done in a peaceful manner. Repolling will be held in two seats on 5 October.

However, BJP won 96 per cent of the seats uncontested. The Congress party has called the whole exercise as farcical. Tripura Pradesh Congress vice-president Tapas Dey said that the BJP had won using muscle power. “They have fallen out with their own ally IPFT during the by-poll process. There were several clashes between the two alliance partners. This poll process was a farcical exercise,” Dey said.

BJP spokesperson Dr Ashok Sinha welcomed the election results and said that people spontaneously exercised their voting rights due to the absence of CPI (M) coercion.