The BJP on Saturday retained its Lok Sabha tally after recounting of votes led to Congress winning Nanded parliamentary seat in Maharashtra, but a runaway victory in the state assembly elections will boost the ruling alliance's prospects in the Rajya Sabha that gets the second-highest number of members from the western state.

BJP's Santukrao Hambarde is leading by a decisive margin of nearly 40,000 votes over Congress rival Ravindra Chavan, according to the Election Commission's latest figures

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi has marked her debut in Lok Sabha by winning the Wayanad bypolls with a huge margin of over 4 lakh votes. However, in the bypolls held for the Nanded constituency in Maharashtra,

While much of the outcome was anticipated, the major setbacks for the SP appear to be on the Kundarki (Moradabad) and Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar) seats.

In a significant development, the Congress party won the Nanded Lok Sabha seat in bypoll. The Congress party candidate Ravindra Vasantrao Chavan won the battle against the BJP contestant with the margin of 1457 votes.

The bypolls for Nanded Lok Sabha seat was necessitated due to the sudden death of Vasantrao who had defeated sitting BJP MP Pratap Patil Chikhalikar by a handsome margin of over 59,000 votes.

The Congress on Saturday managed to win the Nanded Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra. the party, however, lost all the Assembly seats to BJP and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena.

The Mahayuti had led in just 125 Assembly segments in the recent Lok Sabha polls, it may end with at least 219 seats, based on early leads.