<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Uttar Pradesh, main opposition Samajwadi Party has won both Phulpur and Gorakhpur Lok Sabha by-elections.&nbsp;</span></div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Phulpur, Samajwadi Party candidate Nagendra Singh Patel has won the seat by a margin of above 59 thousand votes. Congress candidate Manish Misra stood fourth in the electoral battle.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Gorakhpur, SP candidate Praveen Nishad has wrested the seat from BJP. He defeated his nearest BJP rival Upendra Shukla by a margin of 21,900 votes.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">Samajwadi Party contested the&nbsp;<span style="font-size: small;">by-elections</span>&nbsp;with the support of BSP.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">BJP has lost Gorakhpur seat after 29 years. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had represented the seat continuously for five terms.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Phulpur, BJP had registered its victory in the last parliamentary polls for the first time when Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had wrested the seat from Samajwadi Party.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">Ruling BJP said that the alliance between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party has affected the results of Lok Sabha by-elections.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">Reacting to the outcome of the by-elections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed the alliance as unnatural and said that over self-confidence among party leaders and workers contributed badly in the results. He said, the party will analyse the results and prepare its strategy for 2019 general elections.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">Bypolls in Gorakhpur were necessitated following the resignation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while Phulpur seat was vacated by Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Bihar, RJD has retained Araria Lok Sabha and Jahanabad assembly by-polls while BJP retained Bhabhua assembly seat. In Araria, RJD candidate Sarfaraz Alam defeated his nearest rival Pradeep Kumar Singh of BJP by a margin of over 57 thousand votes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">RJD Candidate Kumar Krishna Mohan beat his nearest rival of JD(U) Aviram Sharma by a margin of over 35 thousand votes in Jahanabad assembly seat.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">BJP candidate Rinki Rani Pandey defeated her nearest rival by a margin of over 15 thousand votes in Bhabhua assembly constituency.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">The by-polls in Bihar were necessitated due to deaths of RJD MP Mohammad Taslimuddin, RJD MLA Mudrika Singh Yadav and BJP MLA Anand Bhusan Pandey.</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">Polling on all the 5 seats was held last Sunday.&nbsp;</div></div></div>