BJP won six assembly by-polls, and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RJD) won one seat, while the Samajwadi Party was able to win just two seats out of nine contested.

CM Yogi supervised the campaign for bypolls himself. His leadership had been questioned by many within BJP after LS setback. Party insiders, experts say Yogi has passed bypoll litmus test.

LUCKNOW: Six months is all it took for CM Yogi Adityanath to script a bounce-back for BJP in UP with a spirited campaign that yielded Saturday seven out of nine seats at stake in assembly bypolls, easing the hurt of seeing the party's Lok Sabha tally in the state slip from 62 to 33.

In Assam, the BJP won three seats, while in Rajasthan, the BJP secured five out of seven assembly constituencies.