Trinamool Congress has won the Maheshtala assembly bypoll in West Bengal by more than 60,00 votes.
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Maheshtala By-Election Results 2018: TMC Wins Maheshtala Assembly Bypoll in West Bengal by More Than 60,000 Votes
In the bypolls, the major candidates in the fray were Dulal Das, widower of Kasturi Das, BJP's Sujit Ghosh and Left-Congress candidate Prabhat Chowdhury.
31 May, 11:02 (IST)
TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 33,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after tenth round of counting, BJP second.
31 May, 09:57 (IST)
TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 20,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after sixth round of counting. CPI(M) is second, BJP third.
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31 May, 09:27 (IST)
TMC workers have already started celebrating in Maheshtala (West Bengal) before the declaration of assembly seat result.Â
31 May, 09:12 (IST)
Visuals from a counting centre in Mahestala assembly seat-
31 May, 08:57 (IST)
TMC's Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 10,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after second round of counting.
31 May, 08:35 (IST)
Counting of votes has begun in Maheshtala. Trends are expected to emerge shortly.  The fight mainly is between TMC's Dulal Chandra Das, CPM's Pravat Chowdhury and Sujit Kumar Ghosh from BJP.
West Bengal, May 31: The results of the by-elections of Maheshtala assembly seat in West Bengal will be declared today. Counting of votes will start from 8 am today, and polling in the region took place on May 28. 73 percent votes were polled in Maheshtala Vidhan Sabha by-election. Voting remained peaceful in the midst of tight security as 2.58 lakh voters exercised their franchise at 283 booths of the constituency out of which 43 were marked as sensitive.
The tussle is between three political parties- Trinamool Congress Party (TMC), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress and CPI (Marxist) in the constituency. Kasturi Das from the TMC had won the seat in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2016. She had won the seat by a good margin of 12, 452 votes. The reason for the by-polls now is due to the death of Kasturi Das in February this year.
This time the major candidates in the fray are Dulal Das, widower of Kasturi Das, BJP's Sujit Ghosh and Left-Congress candidate Prabhat Chowdhury. Das even accused BJP of distributing money to the voters. The BJP candidate is retired IPS officer Sujit Ghosh. The Left has joined hands with Congress, and their candidate is Prabhat Chowdhury.
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