Bankipur, Datia, Manjalpur By-Election Results Live Updates: Opposition hails Prashant Kishor’s win as BJP loses its stronghold

After 18 rounds of counting in Bankipur, Prashant Kishor has increased his lead by over 10,000 votes against BJP’s Neeraj Kumar. Kishor has got 35,713 votes, while the BJP candidate has got 25,277 votes.

Congress candidate Ghanshyam Singh has widened lead in Datia after seven rounds of counting. The Congress candidate has secured 31,436 votes, while BJP’s Ashutosh Tiwari has received 28,141 votes, maintaining a lead of 3,295 votes.

After 14 rounds of counting in Bankipur, Prashant Kishor has increased his lead to 7,781 against BJP’s Neeraj Kumar. Kishor has got 28,201 votes, while the BJP candidate has got 20,420 votes.

After 11 rounds of counting in Bankipur, Prashant Kishor has increased his lead to 6,419 against BJP's Neeraj Kumar. Kishor has got 21,941 votes, while the BJP candidate has got 15,522 votes.

After 13 rounds of counting for Manjalpur in Gujarat, BJP's Satish Patel is leading by 21,502 votes after 13 rounds of counting. The BJP received 37,542 votes, while Congress candidate Bhikha Rabari got 14,085 votes.

Congress candidate Ghanshyam Singh has taken a narrow lead against BJP's Ashutosh Tiwari after five round of counting in Datia on Monday. According to the latest data from the Election Commission, Ghanshyam Singh has secured 21,047 votes, leading by a small margin of 308 votes. BJP's Ashutosh Tiwari is currently trailing after securing 8,877 votes.

Speaking to ANI, Ghanshyam expressed confidence of his victory as the counting continues. "In the third round, I'm ahead by 33 votes, and in the fourth, we'll have a lead of eight or nine hundred. I'll be ahead by more than a thousand, and this lead will grow with each round," he said.

"No, he (Narottam Mishra) did not support me. But yes, many of his workers were more upset with the BJP. They helped me quietly. Narottam Mishra did not help me," he added.

Round 6 sees Prashant Kishor leading with 11,603 cumulative votes, extending his margin over BJP's Neeraj Kumar who sits at 8,152 votes. RJD's Rekha Kumari is still a distant third with 2,154 cumulative votes. The Jan Suraaj founder has steadily stretched his lead to 3,451 votes, The Indian Express' Himanshu Harsh reports from Patna.

While Kishor moved away from his large scale campaigning style of 2025 elections, this time his team kept ground-level caste equations into their calculations, despite their alternative political stance in public.

Sources had indicated that dedicated teams of senior Jan Suraaj leaders were created and divided strictly by their own caste lines. These leaders spent weeks camping inside areas dominated by their respective communities, tracking local grievances, and pulling small groups directly into town hall meetings.

Just a week before voting, Kishor was addressing one of such strategy meetings, of his party's Dalit leaders, well past midnight to lock down the final days of voter outreach. The Jan Suraaj founder was also seen more involved this election, engaging with public during his campaign trail which generally started at 5 am.

Furthermore, to keep this massive machine running, almost every top Jan Suraaj leader from across Bihar had set up camp in Patna, working round-the-clock out of two to three hotels in the capital to micro-manage campaigns at booth level.

The Datia bypoll is turning out to be a neck and neck contest between the BJP and the Congress. The BJP which was leading in the initial rounds of counting has now slipped past the Congress candidate.

Congress candidate Ghanshyam Singh, who received 12,432 votes, was ahead with 33 votes against BJP's Ashutosh Tiwari, who had secured 12,399 votes.

Round 4 sees Prashant Kishor leading with 6,269 cumulative votes, holding a steady margin over BJP's Neeraj Kumar who sits at 5,124 votes. RJD's Rekha Kumari lags far behind in third with just 884 cumulative votes. The Jan Suraaj founder maintains an advantage of 1,145 votes, The Indian Express’ Himanshu Harsh reports from Patna..

Following a complete debacle in the last general elections where Jan Suraaj failed to secure a single seat across Bihar, party was seen with a changed campaigning strategy in the Bankipur by-polls. Instead of his previous large-scale rallies and sprawling vehicular convoys in 2025 polls, this time PK was seen directly engaging with Bankipur voters through micro-targeted, town-hall-style gatherings.

Party workers have also spent weeks on the ground actively seeking and recording feedback on localised civic issues. This hyper-local approach seems to be giving the newcomer an early edge in what has historically been an ironclad BJP urban bastion.

The Election Commission data at around 11 am showed the BJP leading in Gujarat's Manjalpur and Madhya Pradesh's Datia. Jan Suraaj's Prashant Kishor was leading in Bankipur. Here are the latest updates:

- In Bankipur, Prashant Kishor is ahead with 1,162 votes. He received 5,032 votes, while BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar has recieved 3,870 votes.

- In Manjalpur, Gujarat), BJP's Satish Patel is leading with 11,436 votes against Congress candidate Bhikhabhai Rabari, who had secured 7,717 votes.

- In Datia, BJP's Ashutosh Tiwari received 8,253 votes and was leading with 875 votes against Congress candidate Ghanshyam Singh, who secured 7,378 votes.

Jan Suraaj leader Prashant Kishor has widened his lead to 1,161 votes over BJP's Neeraj Kumar after Round 2 of EVM counting for the Bankipur Assembly by-election. This election is the debut for Prashant Kishor, whose party contested the Bihar assembly election.

After 2 of 31 rounds, Prashant Kishor leads with 3,795 cumulative votes. BJP's Neeraj Kumar trails with 2,634 votes. RJD's Rekha Kumari slides further behind with just 664 cumulative votes, trailing the leader by 3,131 votes, The Indian Express’ Himanshu Harsh reports from Patna.

The Election Commission website showed Prashant Kishor ahead with 2,225 votes after the first round of counting. BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar was trailing with 862 votes. RJD's Rekha Kumari was at the third spot with 505 votes, The Indian Express' Himanshu Harsh reports from Patna.

BJP candidate Satish Patel is leading in Manjalpur bypoll in Gujarat with 591 votes after three rounds of counting. Congress candidate Bhikhabhai Rabari is trailing on the seat, the data of the Election Commission website showed.

Bankipur, which is at the heart of Patna adjacent to River Ganga, has been in the spotlight ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to choose its MLA, Nitin Nabin, as the party's new working president last December. The seat is now facing a triangular contest, where the BJP, RJD and Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj fighting hard to win the constituency. The reason behind the seat's popularity are many.

For the opposition, the bypoll is the first contest after Samrat Choudhary took over the reins of the state from JD(U) veteran Nitish Kumar, who served as the longest chief minister in the state. Jan Suraaj chief Kishor had called the contest a "referendum" on the Samran-led NDA government. The seat has been with the BJP since the constituency was created following the 2008 delimitation.