The by-election results in three Assembly constituencies of West Bengal will be out today. Counting started at 8 am. Till the last information available, Trinamool Congress has been leading in the Karimpur seat, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been leading in Kaliagunj and Kharagpur. Initially though, the Left Front-Congress alliance was leading in the Kharagpur seat.
In the last Assembly elections, Kharagpur in West Midnapore district was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Dilip Ghosh, Kaliagunj in Uttar Dinajpur was won by Congress and Karimpur of Nadia was won by the Trinamool Congress’ Mohua Moitra.
Dilip Ghosh and Mohua Moitra have both contested Parliament elections subsequently, in 2019, and thus both the seats will now have fresh elections to choose new lawmakers. For Kaliagunj, the Congress lawmaker died a few months back.
If the performance of the last Lok Sabha polls is taken into consideration, Karimpur has a lead for the Trinamool Congress while Kaliagunj and Kharagpur both have lead for the BJP. However, it is to be seen how the Trinamool Congress and the BJP perform since the Lok Sabha elections in which the BJP had won 18 seats and the Trinamool, 22.
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