The results of the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections will be announced today. The results of by-elections for 48 parliamentary seats and 2 Lok Sabha seats in 15 states will also be announced. Among them, polling was held on November 20 for 9 seats in UP. Counting of postal ballots will begin at 8am. EVM counting will begin at 8:30 am. All preparations for counting the votes have been completed. The control room will be monitored through CCTV cameras and adequate police personnel have been deployed in various places. With the results of the assembly elections, everyone’s eyes are also on Maharashtra’s Nanded seat and Kerala’s Va. Yanad seat. Congress has fielded Priyanka Gandhi from Wayanad. The seat fell vacant after Rahul Gandhi resigned.
As for the Maharashtra elections, voting will be held in phases on November 20 for the 288 assembly seats in the state. The state has 234 general seats. 29 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 25 seats for Scheduled Tribes. The election was held between the ruling party Mahayutthaya and the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi. The grand alliance includes the Bharatiya Janata Party, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the National Communist Party. Mahavikas Aghadi is formed by Congress, Uddhav Thackeray leads Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar’s party.
Polling to be held in two phases in Jharkhand
Polling for 81 Assembly seats in Jharkhand will be held in two phases. The first phase of voting for 43 seats was held on November 13, and the second phase of voting for 38 seats was held on November 20. The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the largest party in the 2014 parliamentary elections. He won 37 seats. Congress had to settle for just 6 seats. While the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha won 19 seats in the state.
UP assembly elections
Polling for by-elections to 9 assembly seats in UP will be held on November 20. The seats going to polls include Mirapur in Muzaffarnagar, Kundalki in Moradabad, Ghaziabad, Khair in Aligarh, Kalhar in Mainpuri, Kanpur Si Samau in the city, Phulpur in Prayagraj, Kaitri in Ambedkar Nagar and Maghivan seat in Mirzapur. In fact, the results of these elections will not have any direct impact on the Yogi government in Parliament. However, the outcome of these seats will be very important for the NDA, especially the BJP, given the competition from the opposition in the recently held Lok Sabha elections.
A total of 90 candidates are vying for the nine seats in the by-election. There are 11 female candidates. Ghaziabad seat will have a maximum of 14 candidates in the fray, while Khair and West Samau seats will have at least five candidates each. In the 2022 assembly elections, the BJP won the Ghaziabad Sadar, Kher and Phulpur seats. Nishad Party, an ally of the NDA, defeated Majhwan. SP won Karhal, Kundarki, Katehari and Sisamau seats. The Meerapur seat was won by the RLD (RLD), then an ally of the SP and now part of the NDA.
Who has how many MLAs in the 403-member UP Assembly?
Apart from UP, which other states are holding by-elections?
Apart from Uttar Pradesh, there are 7 cases in Rajasthan, 6 cases in West Bengal, 5 cases in Assam, 4 cases each in Bihar and Punjab, 3 cases in Karnataka, and 2 cases each in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. There are 2 cases in Sikkim, 1 case in Gujarat, and 1 case each in Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. By-elections were held in one seat in Uttar Pradesh and one in Meghalaya.
