India, Oct. 10 -- Results for the bypolls of five assembly constituencies (AC) and one Lok Sabha constituency were declared on Friday by the Election Commission of India. The elections were held on two ACs each in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu and one AC in Puducherry. The lone Lok Sabha election was held in Assam. The ruling party in each state has won the bypolls, which is in keeping with the wider trend around bypoll results. This intuitive development aside, are there any bigger political takeaways in the results? Here is what an HT analysis shows.

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