Abhijeet Mukherjee of Congress Won from Jangipur in Lok Sabha Bypoll

Congress candidate Abhijeet Mukherjee on 13 October 2012 won a seat from Jangipur District in West Bengal in Lok Sabha By-Poll. Abhijeet Mukherjee is the son of President Pranab Mukherjee.

Abhijeet Mukherjee, won the Jangipur by-election by a narrow margin of 2536 votes defeating his nearest CPI-M rival Muzaffar Hussain.

Abhijit  Mukherjee fought the by-election on a Congress ticket after resigning as an MLA. The vote bank of Abhijit Mukherjee counted with 332919 votes, while the CPI-M candidate bagged 330383 votes.

Abhijeet Mukherjee’s father Pranab Mukerjee had earlier won the seat in 2009 by a huge margin of over 1.28 lakh votes under a poll alliance with Trinamool Congress.

The by-election was held on October 10 as the seat had fallen vacant with the elevation of Pranab Mukherjee to the highest office of the country as President.

Also, In an another By-poll, BJP's Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah Defeated Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna's son Saket in Tehri constituency with a margin of more than 25000 votes. The seat was vacated by Vijay Bahuguna to take over as the state's CM earlier in 2012.

With the result the strength of Congress comes down to 206 in a House of 545 while that of BJP goes up to 115.