Madhya Pradesh Bypolls: BJP Wins 19 Seats, Congress Picks Up 9

Winning 19 seats in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly bypolls, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, 10 November, attained a simple majority in the 230-member House.

Meanwhile, the Indian National Congress has won nine seats. A total of 28 seats in the MP state assembly had gone to bypolls on 3 November.

In a bypolls, necessitated by defections and political turmoil in the state, this "mini-election" was seen as an important litmus test for CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan as well as former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, whose defection to the BJP engineered a change in government in the state.