<p>Trinamool Congress candidate Prasun Banerjee today won the Howrah Lok Sabha seat in a bye-election defeating his nearest rival, CPI(M) candidate Sridip Bhattacherjee, by over 27,000 votes.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Though official results were still to be declared, Election Commission sources said that Prasun Banerjee secured 4,26,273 votes and Sridip Bhattacherjee 3,99,258 votes.<br /><br />Congress candidate Sanatan Mukherjee was in third spot polling 96,727 votes.<br /><br />The sources said that counting of 300 votes in one EVM which developed a technical malfunction would be taken up before the official declaration of the result. The seat fell vacant following the death of TMC MP Ambika Banerjee.<br /><br />Senior TMC leader and Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee told reporters that the poll result would give a boost to the party before next month's crucial panchayat elections.<br /><br />The result prove that people reposed their faith on the performance of Mamata Banerjee government in the past two years, he also said. </p>
<p>Trinamool Congress candidate Prasun Banerjee today won the Howrah Lok Sabha seat in a bye-election defeating his nearest rival, CPI(M) candidate Sridip Bhattacherjee, by over 27,000 votes.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Though official results were still to be declared, Election Commission sources said that Prasun Banerjee secured 4,26,273 votes and Sridip Bhattacherjee 3,99,258 votes.<br /><br />Congress candidate Sanatan Mukherjee was in third spot polling 96,727 votes.<br /><br />The sources said that counting of 300 votes in one EVM which developed a technical malfunction would be taken up before the official declaration of the result. The seat fell vacant following the death of TMC MP Ambika Banerjee.<br /><br />Senior TMC leader and Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee told reporters that the poll result would give a boost to the party before next month's crucial panchayat elections.<br /><br />The result prove that people reposed their faith on the performance of Mamata Banerjee government in the past two years, he also said. </p>