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RJD wins Jehanabad seat, leads in Araria; BJP wins Bhabua seat

Wednesday March 14, 2018 4:27 PM, ummid.com & Agencies

Bihar By Election 2018 Result

Patna: RJD’s Sarfaraz Alam, son of deceased MP Taslimuddin, who was trailing in initial rounds of counting, is now ahead of his rival Pradip Singh of BJP in Araria Lok Sabha seat, according to the latest trends available at 12:30 pm.

Sarfaraz Alam was leading as vote count began in the morning. He however started trailing in later rounds. Latest trends showed Sarfaraz Alam leading his BJP rival by 455 votes. Sarfaraz Alam has so far polled a total of 195,527 votes as against his BJP rival who has bagged 195,072 votes.

In Bhabua assembly seats however Congress is trailing. Here, BJP’s Rinki Pandey has so far bagged 23,640 votes and is ahead of Congress’ Shambhu Singh Patel.

In Jehanabad assembly seat, RJD’s Suday Yadav, son of deceased MLA Mundrika Singh Yadav has got 32,554 votes so far and is ahead of his rival from JD(U) Abhiram Sharma, according to the trends at 12:45 pm.

Counting of votes is stil underway. Final result is expect by afternoon.

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12:30 pm RJD’s Sarfaraz Alam, son of deceased MP Taslimuddin, who was trailing in initial rounds of counting, is now ahead of his rival Pradip Singh of BJP in Araria Lok Sabha seat, according to the latest trends available at 12:30 pm.

Sarfaraz Alam was leading as vote count began in the morning. He however started trailing in later rounds. Latest trends showed Sarfaraz Alam leading his BJP rival by 455 votes. Sarfaraz Alam has so far polled a total of 195,527 votes as against his BJP rival who has bagged 195,072 votes.

12:00 pm In Araria, RJD’s Sarfaraz Alam, son of deceased MP Taslimuddin is trailing against BJP’s Pradip Singh while in Jehanabad, RJD’s Suday Yadav, son of deceased MLA Mundrika Singh Yadav is ahead of his rival from JD(U) Abhiram Sharma, according to latest trends.

In Bhabua assembly seats however Congress is trailing. Here, BJP’s Rinki Pandey is ahead of Congress’ Shambhu Singh Patel.

In Araria BJP candidate has so far bagged 1,13,169 votes and is leading Sarfaraz Alam of RJD, who has got 1,04,190 votes, by 8,979 votes. In Bhahua, BJP is leading by 2,528 votes whereas RJD candidate is ahead in Jehanabad by 8,899 votes, latest trends showed.

10:15 am Rinki Pandey of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead of her rival Shambhu Singh Patel of Congress in Bhabua assembly seat in Kaimur district of Bihar, according to the latest trends.

In Jehanabad, RJD’s Suday Yadav, son of deceased MLA Mundrika Singh Yadav is ahead of his rival from JD(U) Abhiram Sharma, according to latest trends. Counting of votes is stil underway. Final result is expect by afternoon.

10:00 am In Araria, RJD’s Sarfaraz Alam, son of deceased MP Taslimuddin, who was reported to be leading against BJP’s Pradip Singh, is now trailing his rival.

In Jehanabad, RJD’s Suday Yadav, son of deceased MLA Mundrika Singh Yadav is ahead of his rival from JD(U) Abhiram Sharma, according to latest trends. In Bhabua assembly seats however Congress is trailing. Here, BJP’s Rinki Pandey is ahead of Congress’ Shambhu Singh Patel.

09:00 am In Araria, RJD’s Sarfaraz Alam, son of deceased MP Taslimuddin is leading against BJP’s Pradip Singh while in Jehanabad, RJD’s Suday Yadav, son of deceased MLA Mundrika Singh Yadav is ahead of his rival from JD(U) Abhiram Sharma, according to latest trends.

In Bhabua assembly seats however Congress is trailing. Here, BJP’s Rinki Pandey is ahead of Congress’ Shambhu Singh Patel.

08:00 am Counting of votes in Araria parliamentary seat, and Bhabua and Jehanabad assembly seats in Bihar where by elections were held on Sunday started today at 08:00 am. The process began with counting of postal ballots.

In Jehanabad assembly seat the postal ballots are about 150. JDU's candidate from Jehanabad, Abhiram Sharma reached at counting center last midnight. There was a scuffle between him and RJD's Suday Yadav

07:30 am Counting of votes in Araria parliamentary seat, and Bhabua and Jehanabad assembly seats in Bihar where by elections were held on Sunday will begin today at 08:00 am, according to the State Election Commission.

The poll panel said the process will begin with counting of postal ballots. Around 15 tables will be used at each counting centre in different assembly segments. Though the final result will be announced by today afternoon, trends and leads will start coming by 08:30 am when the first round of counting is expected to end.

In Bihar's Araria parliamentary by election 57 per cent polling was registered. In the Bhabua and Jehanabad Assembly constituencies in Bihar, where bypolls were also held, the voter turnout was 54.03 per cent and 50.06 per cent respectively, Bihar's Chief Electoral Officer Ajay V Nayak said.

In Araria, RJD’s Sarfaraz Alam, son of deceased MP Taslimuddin is contesting against BJP’s Pradip Singh while in Jehanabad the fight is between RJD’s Suday Yadav, son of deceased MLA Mundrika Singh Yadav, and JD(U)’s Abhiram Sharma. The Bhabua seat is witnessing a straight contest between BJP’s Rinki Pandey and Congress’ Shambhu Singh Patel.

The RJD-Congress alliance is upbeat after a good voter turnout in Araria, Bhabua and Jehanabad and expressed confidence that the alliance candidates will win.

Along with the by-elections in Bihar, elections were also held in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur is the parliamentary constituency and stronghold of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Similarly, Phulpur is the parliamentary constituency of Keshav Prasad Maurya. Adityanath and Maurya both resigned from the parliament to become Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, thus necessitating the by-elections.

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