Dehradun, September 8: The BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes. Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said. The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she declared. Bageshwar Assembly By-Election Result 2023: Counting of Votes Underway for Uttarakhand Bypoll.

Bypoll to the seat was held on September 5 with 55.44 per cent of the electorate casting their vote. Parwati Dass, who won the seat, is wife of the late Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year had necessitated the bypoll. Her husband had been winning the seat consecutively since 2007. Tripura Assembly By-Elections Results 2023: BJP Candidates Taffajal Hossain, Bindu Debnath Win Bypolls in Boxanagar and Dhanpur Vidhan Sabha Seats Respectively.

This is the fifth time in a row that the BJP has bagged the seat. The three other candidates in the fray have all lost their deposits.