Nilambur Bypoll Results: Congress Ahead After First Round Of Vote Counting, Party In Celebration Mode
Nilambur Assembly election results: UDF workers have started celebrating outside a counting centre in Malappuram as official trends from the Election Commission showed Congress candidate Aryadan Shoukath leading by 419 votes over CPI(M) leader and former MLA M Swaraj in the first round of counting.
Till the latest updates came in, Shoukath maintained a healthy tally in the Nilambur bypoll results, with 3,614 votes after the first round of counting. The lead is, however, a slim margin of 419 votes. Eighteen more rounds of counting are left.
The UDF is a Congress-led alliance of 11 parties. It includes Congress, Kerala Congress, IUML, RSP, KEC(J), KDP, RMPI, CMP, NJD, JSS, and AIFB.
Although the Congress is in the INDIA bloc with the CPI(M) at the national level and in West Bengal, the two parties have historically fought against each other in Kerala.
The Nilmabur bypolls were held on June 19, along with the assembly byelections in Gujarat's Kadi and Visavadar, Punjab's Ludhiana West, and West Bengal's Kaliganj. The Nilambur bypoll recorded the highest turnout of 75.27% among these.
Ludhiana West logged the lowest turnout at 51.33%, while Kadi, Visavadar, and Kaliganj recorded voter turnouts of 57.91%, 56.89%, and 73.36%, respectively.
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