Results of byelections to four assembly constituencies - one each in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Tripura - will be declared on Friday following counting of votes that started at 8 am.

The assembly seats where bypolls were held are Pala (Kerala), Hamirpur (UP), Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) and Badharghat (Tripura). Voting for these seats was held on September 23. LDF’s Mani C Kappen has won Kerala’s Pala seat.

In Pala, Dantewada and Badharghat assembly seats, elections were necessitated following the deaths of sitting MLAs KM Mani, Bhima Mandvi and Dilip Sarkar respectively. The disqualification of sitting BJP MLA Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel following his conviction in a murder case necessitated bypoll in Hamirpur.

Here are the highlights:

4:32 pm IST BJP wins Tripura’s Badharghat by-poll Mimi Majumder of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by-poll in Tripura. Her closest competitor CPI-M’s Bulti Biswas was defeated by a margin of 5,276 votes, news agency IANS quoted election officials as saying. Majumder secured 20,487 votes while her CPI-M-led Left Front rival Biswas got 15,211 votes, the Election Commission officials said.





4:19 pm IST Congress’s Dewati Karma wins Dantewada seat Congress candidate Dewati Karma has won the Dantewada seat in Chhattisgarh, where bypolls were held following sitting MLA Bhima Mandvi’s death.





2:00 pm IST BJP leads in UP’s Hamirpur BJP candidate is in lead in Hamirpur with 46810 votes after 23 rounds of counting. Following are the number of votes bagged by other party candidates. BJP-46810, SP- 37823, BSP- 19395, Congress -10701





1:30 pm IST ‘Big victory’: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan on Mani C Kappen win Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan hails verdict in Pala. “It is big victory for us. The state government will continue to introduce people friendly measures” he said in Thiruvananthapuram





1:07 pm IST BJP maintains lead in UP’s Hamirpur assembly bypoll BJP candidate continues to be in the lead in UP’s Hamirpur assembly seat after 19 rounds of counting. With 38, 996 votes uvraj Singh was leading by over 8,400 votes over his nearest rival of Samajwadi Party. Here is the latest vote count after round 19: BJP- 38, 996; SP- 30, 571; BSP- 15, 646; Congress- 9, 820





1:02 pm IST Kappen wins with a margin of 2,943 votes Mani C Kappen, the NCP candidate, who was backed by the LDF, got 54,137 votes, followed by Tom Jose oF Kerala Congress (Mani) with 51,194 and NDA’s N Hari with 18,044 votes. Kappen won the Pala assembly bypoll with a margin of 2, 943 votes.





12:43 pm IST LDF’s Mani C Kappen wins Pala bypoll Mani C Kappen, the LDF candidate, has won Kerala’s Pala assembly seat. He defeated his nearest rival Tom Jose of UDF by over 2,500 votes in the byelection.





12:22 pm IST LDF-backed Mani C Kappen maintaining lead in Pala seat Voting trends on Friday showed that in the Pala bypolls, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Mani C Kappen, who is being backed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF), was maintaining a consistent lead of over 4,000 votes over United Democratic Front’s (UDF) Jose Tom Pullikunnel.





12:05 pm IST Devati Karma maintains lead in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada In Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada assembly bypoll, the candidate of ruling Congress party ahead after seventh round of counting. Devati Karma was leading by 6,101 votes.





11:30 am IST Dantewada bypoll: Cong candidate ahead after 5th round counting In Dantewada bypoll, Congress candidate Devati Karma continues to maintain his lead over his nearest rival after the fifth round of counting. He is leading by 6,108 votes.





11:15 am IST BJP candidate ahead in UP’s Hamirpur The BJP candidate Yuvraj Singh was leading in Hamirpur bypolls by 900 votes over his nearest rival from Samajwadi Party after round 2 of counting. BJP-3, 424 votes; SP-2,521; BSP-1, 996 and Congress- 1, 708 votes.





11 am IST Counting underway in Tripura’s Badharghat assembly bypolls Here are the latest results from Badharghat bypolls after the fourth round of counting: BJP - 13, 868, CPM - 9,799 and Congress - 5, 819 votes. Counting in progress in Badharghat assembly bypolls. ( ANI / Twitter )





10:55 am IST In Badharghat, BJP continues to lead after 3rd round In Tripura’s Badharghat by polls, the BJP candidate continues to be ahead with 3,748 votes after the third round of counting.





10:50 am IST Cong candidate maintains lead after 4th round in Dantewada In Dantewada seat, after fourth round of counting, Congress candidate was leading by 5,000 votes





10: 48 am IST In Pala, five rounds of counting over; 6 rounds remain Five rounds of counting is over in Pala and six more rounds are remaining. LDF’s Mani C Kappan was leading with 17,934 votes, followed by UDF’s Tom Jose with 15,096 votes and NDA’s N Hari a distant third with 5, 264 votes.





10:45 am IST Infighting in Kerala Cong (Mani) may spoil UDF’s chances in Pala In Pala, it appears that infighting in Kerala Congress (Mani) is set to spoil UDF’s chances. Two groups led by Jose K Mani and P J Joseph had openly clashed during campaigning.





10:31 am IST Devati Karma of Cong leading after 3rd round of counting in Dantewada After the third round of counting, Congress’ Devati Karma is leading with 4,278 votes.





10:27 am IST BJP’s Mimi Majumdar Das leading in Tripura’s Badharghat BJP candidate Mimi Majumdar Das is leading by 3,246 votes in Badharghat assembly by polls in Tripura after second round of counting. The other candidates in the fray are Congress’ Ratan Chandra Das and CPI(M)’s Bulti Biswas, a councillor of Agartala Municipal Corporation.





10:14 am IST LDF’s Mani C Kappan maintaining lead in Pala The LDF candidate has been maintaining lead from the beginning itself. Mani C Kappan lead is over 3,000 votes now.





10:05 am IST Ruling Cong and BJP locked in direct fight in Dantewada The bypoll in Dantewada constituency, reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidate, was necessitated following the death of BJP legislator Bhima Mandavi, who was killed in a Maoist attack on April 9 just three days before the parliamentary elections. The ruling Congress and main opposition BJP are locked in a direct fight in this seat affected by Maoist violence.





9:54 am IST BJP’s Yuvraj Singh leading after first round in UP’s Hamirpur In UP’s Hamirpur assembly seat, BJP’s Yuvraj Singh is leading over the Congress candidate Har Deepak Nishad by 300 votes. Samajwadi Party candidate Dr Manoj Kumar Prajapati is in the third place. 51% voters had exercised their franchise, braving incessant rainfall and flood in various areas.





9:50 am IST 13 candidates in fray in Pala The polling percentage in Pala was 72 % though voting was extended to one hour due to heavy rains in the area. There are 13 candidates in the fray.





9:34am IST LDF candidate leading in Pala bypolls In Pala byelction in Kerala, the LDF candidate Mani C Kappan (NCP) is leading over leading over Tom Jose of the Kerala Congress (Mani).





9:25 am IST In Dantewada seat, Congress candidate leading In Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada constituency, the Congress candidate was leading by 1, 800 votes



