Dumri, Jharkhand

The seat was vacated after the loss of life of Jagarnath Mahto, who had been the Dumri MLA since 2005 when Jharkhand’s first Assembly ballot as a separate state was held. Mahto, a member of the Chief Minister Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, had received the seat within the 2019 Assembly polls. He had crushed the All Jharkhand Students Union’s (AJSU) Yashoda Devi by greater than 34,000 votes.

Durmi has 2.73 lakh voters throughout 373 polling cubicles.

The JMM, now an INDIA bloc member, is fielding Mahto’s spouse Bebi Devi this time. After her husband’s loss of life, she had additionally changed him because the state’s Minister of Prohibition and Excise. Mahto had additionally been the Minister of Education within the Soren Cabinet.

The AJSU will subject Yashoda Devi once more, however this time because the NDA candidate, with the BJP deciding in opposition to getting into the fray. The AJSU is hoping to consolidate the NDA’s vote share within the absence of a BJP candidate.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen will even subject its 2019 candidate, Abdul Rizvi, once more. Rizvi is facing an FIR for allegedly raising “pro-Pakistan” slogans throughout occasion chief Asaddudin Owaisi’s rally in Giridih district on August 30.

The NDA has campaigned closely on this seat, with visits from Union ministers Arjun Munda and Annapurna Devi, and former Chief Ministers Babulal Marandi and Raghubar Das, in an try and wrest the constituency from the JMM.

Dumri is dominated by the Mahto caste group, which has performed a key position in elections. After the Mahtos, the Vaishya caste group and the Muslim group make up the most important sections of the inhabitants, adopted by tribal communities.

Results on this bypoll received’t instantly affect the Assembly composition, with the JMM-led ruling coalition holding 49 of the 80 complete seats. While the JMM alone has 29 MLAs, different coalition members embody the Congress (17 MLAs), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (1 MLA), the Nationalist Congress Party (1 seat). The BJP, with 26 MLAs, leads the Opposition with 3 AJSU MLAs within the NDA.

Durmi has 2.73 lakh voters throughout 373 polling cubicles.

Puthuppally, Kerala

A by-poll was known as after the loss of life of the Congress’s Oommen Chandy, a two-time Chief Minister and the Puthuppally MLA since 1970. A Congress bastion, the one time it had a non-Congress MLA was in 1967 when the CPI(M) received the seat. In the 2021 Assembly polls, Chandy had received the seat for the twelfth consecutive time, defeating the CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas in a detailed contest, by simply over 9,000 votes.

In the 2021 Assembly polls, Chandy had received the seat for the twelfth consecutive time, defeating the CPI(M)’s Jaick C Thomas in a detailed contest, by simply over 9,000 votes.

The Congress, which leads the Opposition United Democratic Front within the Kerala authorities, has named Chandy’s son, 37-year-old Youth Congress chief Chandy Oommen as its candidate. The occasion seems to be banking on the late MLA’s reputation within the constituency – Chandy was affectionately generally known as Kunjoonju (Malayalam for little little one) by locals, who’ve reportedly stored the candles at his grave in Puthupally lit since his loss of life in July. The Congress is projecting his son as an extension of Chandy.

The CPI(M), which leads the Left Democratic Front authorities within the state, is fielding Thomas once more, within the hopes that he can additional minimize into the Congress’s vote share. Thomas, now contesting the seat for the third time, is but to win.

The BJP is fielding Kottayam district unit president Ligin Lal to contest in solely his second ever ballot. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has additionally entered the fray, with first-time candidate Luke Thomas.

The contest, nevertheless, is prone to be dominated by the Congress and the CPI(M). Though Hindus make up greater than half the inhabitants in Puthuppally, the BJP has been unable to make important inroads within the constituency. The Ezhava Hindu group makes up the most important chunk of the constituency’s Hindus however largely helps the CPI(M). The Nair and Viswakarma communities are divided between the events. While Christians make up about 40% of the inhabitants, they’re break up between Chandy Oommen and Thomas — whereas Oommen is an Orthodox Christian, Thomas’s Jacobite group inside the Christians will again the CPI(M).

Despite Puthuppally being a Congress stronghold, the CPI(M) maintains a robust occasion equipment within the constituency and 6 of the eight native self-governing our bodies are managed by the LDF. The CPI(M) is concentrating on the Congress on growth, claiming Puthuppally has been left behind as the remainder of Kerala develops. The Congress, nevertheless, has attacked the LDF on points like rubber cultivation and the federal government’s failure to make sure honest promoting costs.

The 140-member Assembly at present has 98 LDF MLAs and 40 UDF MLAs. The CPI(M) alone has 61 seats in contrast with the Congress’s 20.

Puthuppally has 1.76 lakh voters throughout 185 polling cubicles.

Dhanpur and Boxanagar, Tripura

Just months after the Assembly elections in Tripura, two seats will see bypolls within the state – one necessitated by the loss of life of an MLA and the opposite by a resignation. Both seats will characteristic a straight contest between the CPI(M) and BJP. The Congress is backing the CPI(M) whereas the lately based tribal occasion Tipra Motha, led by erstwhile Tripuri royal Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma, isn’t fielding a candidate and formally has not backed both the CPI(M) or the BJP.

Dhanpur is holding a bypoll because the BJP’s Pratima Bhoumik resigned to retain her Lok Sabha seat. She is the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment of India, the primary Tripura resident and second lady from the Northeast to turn into a Union minister. In the 2023 polls, Bhoumik had received the seat by 3,500 votes, defeating the CPI(M)’s Kaushik Chanda. The CPI(M) had held the seat because the first state polls in 1972, together with by four-time Chief Minister Manik Sarkar between 1998 and 2023. After the Assembly ballot loss in 2018, Sarkar turned the Leader of Opposition however, in 2023, didn’t contest elections, in order to make means for youthful leaders.

Dhanpur is holding a bypoll because the BJP’s Pratima Bhoumik resigned to retain her Lok Sabha seat.

In the bypoll, the BJP is fielding Bhoumik’s brother Bindu Debnath, an area occasion chief, within the hope that the household connection sways voters. The CPI(M) is fielding Kaushik Chanda, who had misplaced within the 2023 Assembly ballot. Interestingly, Debnath and Chanda had been schoolmates on the Kabi Nazrul Vidyalaya.

Both events have claimed the absence of a Tipra Motha candidate will permit every to consolidate its vote share. The CPI(M) has even claimed that Tipra Motha staff are supporting it on the bottom, although formally the occasion isn’t backing anybody.

Dhanpur has a mixture of ST, SC and different minority teams. Tribal voters account for 28% of the seat’s inhabitants.

In Boxanagar, a bypoll was necessitated by the loss of life of CPI(M) MLA Samsul Haque. A stronghold for the Left, the seat has been held by the CPI(M) since 2003 and, since 1972, the Congress has solely received right here 3 times. Haque had defeated the BJP’s Tafajjal Hossain by lower than 5,000 votes within the 2023 Assembly polls.

A stronghold for the Left, the seat has been held by the CPI(M) since 2003 and, since 1972, the Congress has solely received right here 3 times.

In the bypoll, the CPI(M) is hoping to retain the Muslim-majority constituency with Haque’s son, Mizan Hossain, who can also be a state committee member of the occasion’s youth wing. The BJP is fielding Tafajjal Hossain once more. If elected, Tafajjal would be the BJP’s solely Muslim MLA within the Assembly.

The BJP had shaped its first Tripura authorities in 2018 below Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb after 25 years of CPI(M) rule. In 2023, the BJP received by a slender margin of seats with Manik Saha turning into the Chief Minister. Currently, the NDA authorities has 32 seats within the 60-seat Assembly. The Tipra Motha has 13 seats, adopted by 10 for the CPI(M) and three for the Congress.

There are 50,147 voters in Dhanpur throughout 59 polling cubicles and 43,087 voters in Boxanagar throughout 51 cubicles.

Bageshwar, Uttarakhand

A 12 months after the Assembly polls in Uttarakhand, the Bageshwar seat will maintain a bypoll following the loss of life of sitting BJP MLA Chandan Ram Dass. Dass, a four-time MLA and minister with the portfolios of Social Welfare, Minority Welfare, Road Transport, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, had received within the 2022 polls for a fourth consecutive time after defeating the Congress’s Ranjeet Das by greater than 12,000 votes.

In the 2022 ballot, the SP had solely received 0.68% of the votes on this seat and has no MLAs within the present Assembly.

This time, the BJP is fielding Dass’s spouse Parwati in a direct contest in opposition to the Congress’s Basant Kumar. After the Congress’s earlier candidate Ranjeet Das left to affix the BJP simply weeks earlier than the election, the occasion opted to subject former AAP candidate Kumar. Ranjeet, nevertheless, was not named because the BJP candidate.

In a check of Opposition unity, the Samajwadi Party (SP), regardless of being a Congress ally within the INDIA bloc, can also be fielding a candidate, Bhagawati Prasad. In the 2022 ballot, the SP had solely received 0.68% of the votes on this seat and has no MLAs within the present Assembly. The BJP is the most important occasion with 46 MLA’s within the 70-member Assembly, adopted by the Congress at 19 and the BSP at 2.

Bageshwar, a Schedule Caste seat within the Kumaon area, has been held by BJP since 2007. The final time the Congress received right here was in 2002. The constituency has 1.2 lakh voters throughout 188 polling cubicles.

Ghosi, Uttar Pradesh

A bypoll was known as after serial party-hopper Dara Singh Chauhan resigned because the Samajwadi Party’s Ghosi MLA to rejoin the BJP earlier this 12 months. In the 2022 Assembly polls, Chauhan received the Ghosi seat as an SP candidate, defeating the BJP’s Vijay Kumar Rajbhar by greater than 22,000 votes.

In the 2022 Assembly polls, Chauhan received the Ghosi seat as an SP candidate, defeating the BJP’s Vijay Kumar Rajbhar by greater than 22,000 votes.

Chauhan, an Other Backward Classes (OBC) chief, has beforehand been a member of the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and spent two separate stints every with the BJP and the SP. He was a Lok Sabha MP for the BSP and a member of BJP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Cabinet from 2017 to 2022.

Since the Nineties, the BJP, the BSP and the SP have taken turns successful the seat. The Congress hasn’t received right here since 1989.

The BJP has determined to subject Chauhan right here as soon as once more over earlier candidate Vijay Kumar Rajbhar, additionally an OBC chief. Party insiders mentioned Chauhan was chosen so he could possibly be inducted into the Cabinet if he wins. The SP candidate is Sudhakar Singh, a Rajput who was the Ghosi MLA from 2012 to 2017 however has misplaced in consecutive Assembly polls since then. The Congress has opted to not subject a candidate and is backing its INDIA associate, despite the fact that the SP refused to withdraw its candidate in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar by-poll. The BSP, too, isn’t contesting within the by-poll.

OBCs are essentially the most dominant group in Ghosi. Among its 4.4 lakh voters throughout 340 polling cubicles, there are round 60,000 Rajbhar voters, 50,000 Chauhans (often known as Nonias), round 40,000 Yadavs and 60,000 Dalits. There are additionally round 90,000 Muslim voters and round 77,000 upper-caste Hindus, together with 45,000 Bhumihars, 16,000 Rajputs and 6,000 Brahmins. In the previous six meeting elections, Ghosi voters have elected an OBC MLA 5 instances.

The SP is banking on its PDA – Pichde (backward lessons), Dalits and Alpsankhyak (minorities) – system to win not solely the by-poll but in addition the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. With its sizable OBC, Muslim and Dalit populations, the Ghosi meeting seat could possibly be a testing floor for the PDA teams’ affect in opposition to the NDA.

The NDA at present has 280 MLAs within the 403-member Assembly, together with 255 from the BJP. The INDIA bloc has 119 MLAs – 115 from the SP, 9 from the Rashtriya Lok Dal and a couple of from the Congress. The BSP, which hasn’t allied with both the NDA or INDIA, has one MLA.

Dhupguri, West Bengal

In 2021, the BJP made its first important foray into the West Bengal Assembly, successful 77 seats in contrast with simply 3 within the earlier election. In Dhupguri, the BJP’s Bishnu Pada Ray defeated the Trinamool Congress’s Mitali Roy by a slender 4,300-vote margin. The constituency will now see a bypoll after Ray’s loss of life in July.

In 2021, the BJP made its first important foray into the West Bengal Assembly, successful 77 seats in contrast with simply 3 within the earlier election.

The BJP is fielding Tapasi Roy, the widow of CRPF jawan Jagannath Roy who was killed in a terrorist assault in Kashmir in 2021. Both the Trinamool and CPI(M) are fielding new candidates for the bypoll. The Trinamool’s Nirmal Chandra Roy, a professor at Dhupguri Girls College, and the CPI(M)’s Ishwar Chandra Roy, a people artiste, will hope to take the seat away from the BJP.

With the Congress backing the CPI(M) in opposition to the TMC, the bypoll will see a contest between INDIA bloc members. The Congress has received this seat 3 times since Independence however the CPI(M) has been the dominant occasion right here, successful the seat eight consecutive instances between 1977 and 2011. The TMC’s Mitali Roy, who left the occasion to affix the BJP lately, had received the seat in 2016 earlier than shedding to the BJP in 2021.

The main contest within the Schedule Caste-reserved seat is anticipated to be between the BJP and TMC. Wary of the BJP’s rising affect in north Bengal, the TMC has led campaigning with occasion nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee and promised to make Dhupguri a “sub-division by the end of this year.”

The constituency, situated in Jalpaiguri district, is essentially agricultural with many tea gardens. It has a substantial inhabitants of Rajbanshi and Matua caste teams amongst its 2.6 lakh voters throughout 260 cubicles.

Currently, the 294-member Assembly has 220 Trinamool MLAs and 69 from the BJP.