Speaking on polling percentage Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar HR Srinivasa said that 92 lakh votes counted so far and the counting will continue till late evening.
The counting of votes for the Baroda Assembly bypoll in Haryana began at 8 a.m. on Tuesday and the result is expected by noon. The fate of 14 candidates, including seven Independents, will be decided during the day.
As many as 81 candidates contested the bypolls across the eight seats. The Election Commission's guidelines on COVID-19 are in place so that counting agents do not assemble in large numbers at the counting centres, the official said.
An average of over 53 per cent voters had exercised their franchise on November 3 to decide the electoral fortunes of 88 candidates in the Naugaon Sadat, Tundla, Bangarmau, Bulandshahr, Deoria, Ghatampur and Malhani assembly constituencies. Barring Malhani, which was with the Samajwadi Party, the other seats were in the BJP's kitty.
Votes polled in the November 3 bypolls to Sira in Tumakuru district and Rajarajeshwari Nagar (R R Nagar) in the city were taken up for counting at 8 am and the results are expected to be out by afternoon. In the polls held amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sira and R R Nagar recorded voter turnout of 82.31 per cent and 45.24 per cent respectively.
If one can control satellite on Moon and Mars from ground then what is EVM for them, said Congress leader Udit Raj on November 10 on early trends of Bihar elections results.
Congress candidate Indu Raj Narwal on Tuesday defeated his nearest rival and BJP nominee Yogeshwar Dutt in the Baroda assembly seat of Haryana with a margin of over 10,000 votes. This is the second time that Olympian wrestler Dutt has lost the polls from this constituency.
The majority mark to form the government is 122 in the 243-seat Bihar Assembly.
The First win of the Bihar election 2020 has been announced by the Election Commission in state's Darbhanga Rural constituency. The Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Lalit Kumar Yadav was able to secure 41.26% of the votes.
Oinam Lukhoi Singh won the Wangoi seat defeating his nearest rival Khuraijam Loken Singh of the National People's Party by 257 votes. The by-polls held on November 7 were necessitated after Congress MLAs of these four seats resigned from the assembly and joined the ruling BJP.
HAM chief and former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, who was earlier trailing RJD's Uday Narain Choudhary, now leads by over 2,400 votes in Imamganj seat.
Senior Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi on Tuesday slammed the RJD for maligning the image of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying the opposition only attacked and flayed him in the run up to the Bihar Assembly elections to score political mileage.
As the RJD-led Mahagatbandan trails behind NDA in the counting of votes for the 243 seats in Bihar Assembly, Congress national spokesperson Udit Raj once again raised questions on the authenticity of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
Bihar Results 2020: KC Tyagi said that Nitish Kumar will continue as the Chief Minister of Bihar even if the BJP wins more seats that the JDU.
Bihar results 2020: BJP workers gathered outside the party office in Patna as the trends suggested that the NDA is headed to retain power in the state.
Supporters and workers of BJP celebrate, gather at party office in Patna as trends show NDA leading over RJD-led Mahagathbandhan.
Three ministers in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh are trailing behind their Congress rivals even as the ruling BJP has taken a lead in 17 of the 28 Assembly constituencies. Ministers Aidal Singh Kansana, Girraj Dandotia, and OPS Bhadoria are struggling in Sumaoli, Dimani and Mehgaon seats, respectively.
JD(U)'s Jai Kumar Singh, a minister in the Nitish cabinet, is trailing from Dinara. A party or an alliance needs to reach the majority mark of 122 to form a government in the state.
The counting of votes is underway in four assembly constituencies of Manipur amid tight security and COVID-19 safety protocols at counting centres. Counting started at 8 am at Lilong, Wangjing-Tentha, Saitu and Wangoi constituencies.
The counting of votes is underway in Balasore and Tirtol assembly constituencies of Odisha. The counting started at 8 am amid tight security arrangements and strict adherence to COVID-19 guidelines. The bypolls were held on November 3. The bypolls in Balasore and Tirtol were necessitated after the deaths of BJP MLA Madan Mohan Dutta and BJD legislator Bishnu Charan Das.
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