BJP's Devyani Rana wins J&K's Nagrota bypoll, contesting 1st time in a bypoll necessitated by death of her father & senior party leader Devender Singh Rana. NC's Shamim Begum comes in third.
Congress' Pramod Jain Bhaya wins in Rajasthan's Anta bypoll, testing CM Bhajan Lal Sharma's 1st electoral test and Vasundhara Raje's return to active campaigning.
Bypoll was necessitated by death of Somesh Chandra's father & ex-JMM minister Ramdas Soren on 15 August. It was first electoral test of Hemant Soren in his 2nd stint in power.
SP & Congress defeating veteran turncoat Chauhan of BJP in Ghosi bypoll exposes BSP's eroding base. Its absence helped SP get Dalit votes along with its traditional Muslim-Yadav votes.
AAP’s Sushil Kumar Rinku, a former Congress MLA, defeated Congress’s Karamjit Kaur, the wife of Santokh Singh Chaudhary, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
BJD leading in Padampur by margin of 38,252 votes. If trends hold, this win will come as relief to party which last month saw its 1st bypoll loss since 2009 when BJP won Dhamnagar.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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