The BJP and TRS had been going neck-and-neck in the fight for the prized Munugode seat before the latter opened out a lead and eventually cruised home by a slender margin.
Former MLA Arvind Giri's son Aman got 12,4810 votes and SP candidate Vinay Tiwari got 90,512 votes. Out of 2,23,352 votes, 55.88 per cent voters gave their support to Aman Giri.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Murji Patel who withdrew his candidature from the election said that the picture would have been different today if the party did not do so.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to win four seats while parties like Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Shiv Sena of Uddhav Thackeray faction bagged one seat each in their respective States of dominance.
Prabhakar Reddy secured 97,006 votes amounting to a vote share of 42.95 per cent. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy came second with 38.38 per cent of votes.
In the Gopalganj constituency, RJD's Mohan Prasad Gupta was defeated by BJP candidate Kusum Devi with a margin of 1,794 votes despite taking an early lead and witnessing a neck-and-neck fight here.
One lakh 20 thousand voters coming under Andheri East assembly constituency stayed away from voting. This shows that the people are with us. The picture for 2024 will be different.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has extended his gratitude to the people of the Gola Gokarannath Assembly as the party won the bypoll with a significant margin.
"This victory is of my husband and the development works he did in Andheri. I will go to the election centre now and later to Matoshree to seek blessings," Latke said after the results were declared.