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By-elections to thirteen state assembly constituencies were held in Uttar Pradesh on 13 May 2024 for four seats and on 20 November 2024 for 9 seats. The results were announced on 4 June for 4 seats and 23 November for the rest of the seats. BJP, the ruling party won 8 out of 13 seats and its ally RLD won 1 seat. The Samajwadi Party won four. [2]
The bye elections for Dadraul, Lucknow East and Gainsari were necessitated after their respective mla's died. The bye election in Dudhdhi was scheduled after its sitting mla was disqualified. All of these bypolls happened along with the 2024 Indian general election. The bypolls in rest of the constituencies (barring Sishamau), happened due to their mla's being elected to the Lok Sabha. The bye election to these 9 seats happened on 20 November and the results were declared on 23 November. [2]
| Poll event | Phase | |
|---|---|---|
| I | II | |
| Notification date | 18 April | 22 October |
| Last date for filing nomination | 25 April 2024 | 29 October 2024 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 26 April | 30 October |
| Last date for withdrawal of nomination | 29 April | 4 November |
| Date of poll | 13 May | 20 November [2] |
| Date of counting of votes | 4 June | 23 November |
| No. of constituencies | 4 | 9 |
The BJP led alliance secured victory in 9 seats whereas the Samajwadi Party bagged four seats. Of these the BJP led alliance won 7 out of 9 seats in November bypolls whereas it won 2 out of 4 seats in the earlier bypolls. The SP won 2 seats in both the June and November bypoll. In the June bypoll, SP gained 1 seat but in the recent bypolls the BJP gained 2 seats. Thus, the BJP had a net gain of 1 seat in the election. [3] 2,543,248 people voted in this election.
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | ||||
| Dadraul | Arvind Kumar Singh | BJP | 105,972 | Avadhesh Kumar Verma | SP | 89,177 | 16,795 | ||
| Lucknow East | O. P. Srivastava | BJP | 142,948 | Mukesh Chauhan | INC | 89,061 | 53,887 | ||
| Gainsari | Rakesh Kumar Yadav | SP | 87,120 | Shailesh Kumar Singh | BJP | 77,683 | 9,437 | ||
| Duddhi | Vijay Singh Gond | SP | 82,787 | Saravan Kumar | BJP | 79,579 | 3,208 | ||
| Meerapur | Mithlesh Pal | RLD | 84,304 | Sumbul Rana | SP | 53,508 | 30,796 | ||
| Kundarki | Ramveer Singh | BJP | 1,70,371 | Mohammad Rizwan | SP | 25,580 | 144,791 | ||
| Ghaziabad | Sanjeev Sharma | BJP | 96,946 | Singh Raj Jatav | SP | 27,595 | 96,946 | ||
| Khair | Surender Diler | BJP | 100,181 | Charu Kain | SP | 61,788 | 38,393 | ||
| Karhal | Tej Pratap Singh Yadav | SP | 104,304 | Anujesh Pratap Singh | BJP | 89,503 | 14,801 | ||
| Sishamau | Naseem Solanki | SP | 69,714 | Suresh Awasthi | BJP | 61,150 | 8,564 | ||
| Phulpur | Deepak Patel | BJP | 78,289 | Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui | SP | 66,984 | 11,305 | ||
| Katehari | Dharmraj Nishad | BJP | 104,091 | Shobhawati Verma | SP | 69,577 | 34,514 | ||
| Majhawan | Suchismita Maurya | BJP | 77,737 | Jyoti Bind | SP | 72,815 | 4,922 | ||
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