The ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh has retained Nandigama Assembly seat.
TDP candidate T Soumya defeated Babu Rao of Congress party by over 70,000 votes.
Soumya is daughter of T Prabhakar Rao, whose death caused the by-election.
In the bypoll held Saturday 70 percent of 1.84 lakh votes had cast votes in the constituency located in Krishna district in coastal Andhra.
—IANS