Kolkata: Trinamool Congress won both the Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly seats by a huge margin on Thursday.
The by-election results of Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly seats has come as a shot in the arm for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the upcoming local body elections.
TMCs Sunil Singh won the Noapara assembly seat by-poll with a huge 1,11,729 votes, defeating his nearest rival from the BJP by more than 70,000 votes. CPI (M) was relegated to a distant third in the multi-cornered contest.
"Trinamool wins Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of 4,74,000 votes," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted.
TMC fielded late party MP Sultan Ahmed's wife Sajda from the Uluberia. With nearly 40 percent minority community vote share, Uluberia has elected Muslim leaders for the past four decades.
A look at the winners of West Bengal and Rajasthan bypolls. (Image: News18 Creative)
Both Uluberia and Noapara witnessed a quadrangular contest with BJP emerging as the prime challenger to the TMC.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, TMC had won 34 out of the 44 parliamentary seats in Bengal. The Congress bagged four while the Left and BJP won two seats each. The TMC swept the 2016 Bengal state polls by winning 211 out of the 294 seats. The Congress was a distant second with 44 seats. The Left won 32 and the BJP six seats.
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