Tripura Bypoll Results Highlights: BJP wins big, bags both Boxanagar & Dhanpur seats

Tripura Bypoll Results Highlights: The ruling party wrested Boxanagar from the CPI(M), and retained Dhanpur. This live blog is now closed.

Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged victorious in the September 5 bypolls to the state's Boxanagar and Dhanpur assembly seats, the counting of votes for which was held on Friday.

BJP's Tripura unit workers celebrate win (Image courtesy: BJP Tripura)

The party's Tafajjal Hossain (34,146 votes) wrested the Boxanagar seat from CPI(M), defeating its candidate, Mizan Hossain (3909), by 30,237 votes, the ECI's website showed. In Dhanpur, meanwhile, the saffron outfit's Bindu Debnath (30,017 votes) defeated the CPI(M)'s Kaushik Chanda (11,146) by 18,871 votes.

Total six rounds of counting was conducted in both segments.

On both the seats, there was a direct contest between the and the opposition CPI(M) as two other opposition parties – the TIPRA Motha and the Congress – did not field their respective candidates. 

The bypolls in Boxanagar were necessitated due to the demise of the sitting CPI(M) legislator Samsul Haque. In Dhanpur, on the other hand, Union minister Pratima Bhoumik, who contested the state assembly elections earlier this year, resigned from the seat days after her election.

Follow all the updates here:

• Sep 08, 2023 02:33 PM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: TIPRA Motha chief slams Congress for ‘backing out’

  If a party does not have the courage to fight for the people then why contest and then back out at the last moment leaving their own loyal workers to suffer ? Tipra Motha has withstood the pressure of being a party which has spoken up for our rights of the indigenous people .Can…

  — Pradyot_Tripura (@PradyotManikya) September 8, 2023

  If a party does not have the courage to fight for the people then why contest and then back out at the last moment leaving their own loyal workers to suffer?: Pradyot Deb Barman, TIPRA Motha chief and former state Congress president

• Sep 08, 2023 02:03 PM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: How about results in other states?

  You can follow the results on the ECI's official website or follow Hindustan Times' live blog.

• Sep 08, 2023 01:24 PM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP's Amit Malviya reacts

  BJP wins both Assembly seats in Tripura.
  
  BJP's Tafajjal Hossain won the Boxanagar seat, which has around 66% Muslim voters, by 30,237 votes. Hossain got 34,146 votes, while his nearest rival Mizan Hossain of the CPI(M) got just 3,909 votes.
  
  In Dhanpur, which has a significant…

  — Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) September 8, 2023

  End of the road for the Communists, in what was once their bastion: Amit Malviya, BJP IT cell chief

• Sep 08, 2023 12:57 PM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: CM congratulates winning candidates

  I thank the people of Boxanagar & Dhanpur assembly constituencies for this landslide victory of Bharatiya Janata Party in the bye-polls.
  
  This victory represents the people's continuous faith in PM Shri @narendramodi Ji & @BJP4India President @JPNadda
  Ji, We shall continue to… pic.twitter.com/uNXKy0Fn3r

  — Prof.(Dr.) Manik Saha (@DrManikSaha2) September 8, 2023

  Tripura chief minister Manik Saha thanks voters after BJP wins bypolls to both Boxanagar and Dhanpur assembly constituencies.

• Sep 08, 2023 12:24 PM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: How other candidates fared?

  Boxanagar:

  NOTA (None of the above): 434 votes

  Md. Selim, Independent: 181 votes

  Ratan Hossen, Independent: 144 votes

   

  Dhanpur

  Anil Reang, Independent: 544 votes

  NOTA: 533 votes

  Bappi Debnath, Independent: 426 votes

• Sep 08, 2023 11:57 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP mocks Congress after win

  বামগ্রেসের পাত্তা নাই তারা গেলো কৈ??? pic.twitter.com/nlsFdXwPEk

  — BJP Tripura (@BJP4Tripura) September 8, 2023

  BJP workers celebrate, mock Congress after party wrests Boxanagar from CPI(M), retains Dhanpur in bypolls.

• Sep 08, 2023 11:19 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP wins both seats

  Voting for all six rounds done, BJP victorious in both Boxanagar and Dhanpur.

  Boxanagar

  1. Tafajjal Hossain, BJP: 34,146 votes
  2. Mizan Hossain, CPI(M): 3909 votes

   

  Dhanpur

  1. Bindu Debnath, BJP: 30,017 votes

  2. Kaushik Chanda, CPI(M): 11,146 votes

• Sep 08, 2023 10:53 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP inches closer to win

  In Boxanagar, after four out of six rounds:

  1. Tafajjal Hossain, BJP: 27,751 votes
  2. Mizan Hossain, CPI(M): 2273 votes

   

  After five rounds in Dhanpur:

  1. Bindu Debnath, BJP: 25,170 votes
  2. Kaushik Chanda, CPI(M): 9356 votes
• Sep 08, 2023 10:24 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP extends lead

  Three rounds (of total six) left in Boxanagaar, two in Dhanpur. Status in respective constituencies:

   

  1. Tafajjal Hossain, BJP: 22,781 votes
  2. Mizan Hossain, CPI(M): 765 votes

   

  1. Bindu Debnath: 20,980 votes
  2. Kaushik Chanda: 6596 votes
• Sep 08, 2023 09:44 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP leading on both seats

  Total six rounds to be counted. After round 1 in Boxanagar and Dhanpur, respectively:

  1. Tafajjal Hossain, BJP: 7706 votes
  2. Mizan Hossain, CPI(M): 375 

   

  1. Bindu Debnath, BJP: 5341 votes
  2. Kaushik Chanda, CPI(M): 1276
• Sep 08, 2023 09:30 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: How Boxanagar voted in 2023 Tripura election?

  1. Samsul Haque (CPI M): 19,404 votes; 50.34% of votes
  2. Tafajjal Hossain (BJP): 14,555; 37.76%
  3. Abu Khayer Miah (TIPRA Motha): 3010; 7.81%
• Sep 08, 2023 08:57 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: Counting underway in 5 other states too

  Counting of votes is underway in five other states too: Jharkhand (Dumri), Kerala (Puthupally), Uttarakhand (Bageshwar), Uttar Pradesh (Ghosi), and West Bengal (Dhupguri). Bypolls on each of these seats, too, were held on September 5.

• Sep 08, 2023 08:34 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: CPI(M) 'boycotts' counting

  The party-led Left front is not participating in the counting process. It has claimed ‘large-scale’ rigging in voting, and accused the ECI of not taking steps to prevent the rigging.

• Sep 08, 2023 08:07 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: BJP OR CPI(M)? Counting begins

  The counting of votes has commenced for what is the first electoral battle between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition I.N.D.I.A (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance), a 28-party bloc that has been formed to deny PM Narendra Modi and the NDA, a third straight term at the Centre in next year's Lok Sabha elections.

• Sep 08, 2023 07:52 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: Counting to begin shortly; where to check results?

  The trends can be tracked on the ECI's official website. The overall results, on the other hand, will be declared later in the day.

• Sep 08, 2023 07:39 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: Who are the candidates?

  The BJP has fielded Tafajjal Hossain and Bindu Debnath from Boxanagar and Dhanpur respectively. Their challengers from the CPI(M) are Mizan Hossein (Boxanagar) and Kaushik Chanda (Dhanpur).

• Sep 08, 2023 07:21 AM IST

  Tripura Bypoll Results Live Updates: Counting of votes today

  The counting of votes for the September 5 bypolls will commence at 8am. On both the seats – Boxanagar and Dhanpur – the ruling BJP and opposition CPI(M) were in direct contest as other opposition parties did not contest.