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BJD wins Pipili bypoll by over 20,000 votes
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Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (TIWN) Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Sunday won the bypoll to the Pipili Assembly constituency by 20,916 votes.
Maharathy secured 42,774 votes, while Pattanayak bagged 31,578 votes, and Congress nominee Bishwokeshan Harichandan Mohapatra got 2,602 votes. Of the 78,675 votes counted till the end of the eleventh round, 401 people chose the NOTA (none of the above) option, it said. Around 78.24 per cent of over 2.29 lakh voters had exercised their franchise in the by-poll on September 30. A total of 25 rounds of counting will be held.
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