<p>The BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes.</p>.<p>Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said.</p>.Chandy Oommen wins his father's Puthuppally seat in Kerala bypoll with record margin.<p>The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she declared.</p>.<p>Bypoll to the seat was held on September 5 with 55.44 per cent of the electorate casting their vote.</p>.<p>Parwati Dass, who won the seat, is wife of the late Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year had necessitated the bypoll.</p>.<p>Her husband had been winning the seat consecutively since 2007.</p>.<p>This is the fifth time in a row that the BJP has bagged the seat.</p>.<p> The three other candidates in the fray have all lost their deposits.</p>
<p>The BJP on Friday retained the Bageshwar assembly seat in Uttarakhand with its candidate Parwati Dass defeating Congress' Basant Kumar by more than 2,400 votes.</p>.<p>Dass polled 33,247 votes while Kumar got 30,842 votes, Bageshwar District Magistrate and returning officer Anuradha Pal said.</p>.Chandy Oommen wins his father's Puthuppally seat in Kerala bypoll with record margin.<p>The BJP won by 2,405 votes, she declared.</p>.<p>Bypoll to the seat was held on September 5 with 55.44 per cent of the electorate casting their vote.</p>.<p>Parwati Dass, who won the seat, is wife of the late Chandan Ram Dass whose death in April this year had necessitated the bypoll.</p>.<p>Her husband had been winning the seat consecutively since 2007.</p>.<p>This is the fifth time in a row that the BJP has bagged the seat.</p>.<p> The three other candidates in the fray have all lost their deposits.</p>