Overview

• Aam Aadmi Party’s Gopal Italia won Gujarat’s Visavadar seat by 17,554 votes and Sanjeev Arora secured Punjab’s Ludhiana West by 10,637 votes, marking a strong recovery after setbacks in Delhi.
• Congress-led UDF candidate Aryadan Shoukath defeated CPI(M)’s M Swaraj in Kerala’s Nilambur by 11,077 votes, delivering the LDF its fourth bypoll loss and boosting Congress morale ahead of the 2026 vote.
• Trinamool Congress’s Alifa Ahmed retained the Kaliganj seat in West Bengal with a 50,049-vote margin, extending her party’s unbroken bypoll winning streak since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
• BJP’s Rajendra Chavda held onto Gujarat’s Kadi constituency by 39,452 votes, preserving the party’s dominance in the SC-reserved seat despite losses elsewhere.
• Gujarat Congress president Shaktisinh Gohil resigned after defeats in both Kadi and Visavadar, underscoring internal party pressure following the bypoll setbacks.