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The Uttar Pradesh Elections are perhaps the most keenly contested and politically significant election as it also has the most number of Lok Sabha seats that play a crucial role in general elections. All political parties have already started their big push for the UP election. The Uttar Pradesh assembly has seats. In Goa Assembly Elections , the Congress had emerged as the single-largest party winning 17 seats in the member House, but could not come to power.

The BJP, which won 13 seats, formed the government by allying with some independents and regional parties. Uttarakhand will see a three-pronged contest with the ruling BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party vying for power in the seat assembly. The Congress is leading in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi parliamentary seat and three assembly seats of Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbai-Kothkai, according to available trends for the bypolls.

In Jubbal-Kotkhai Assembly seat after second round of counting, Rohit Thakur 2, of the Congress is leading with votes over his nearest rival Chetan Singh Bragta , a rebel BJP candidate contesting as an independent candidate. The ruling BJP and its allies are leading in all the five assembly constituencies in Assam, where bypolls were held on October 30, according to the latest update of the counting trends put on the Election Commission of India ECI website.

All the three BJP nominees were elected to the assembly in the general elections in March-April this year on tickets of opposition parties but resigned and joined the saffron party.

If the administration or other people will try to create any disturbance, I'm here in Darbhanga. I'll not let the mandate be stolen by anybody. All India Trinamool Congress - 2. Bharatiya Janata Party - 3. BJP and Congress are leading on one seat each in Karnataka. Congress has got 2,, while the BJP has received 5, votes.

The counting is underway in the Sindagi seat. The counting of votes is underway in Bengal. Counting of votes for the recently held bye-elections to the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency and three assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh started at 8 am on Tuesday amid tight security arrangements.

Twenty-five centres have been set up for counting of votes of the Mandi parliamentary bypoll and Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai assembly bye-elections which were held on October State chief electoral officer CEO C Palrasu said that 11 counting observers have been deputed for the Mandi seat while three general observers have been deputed as counting observers for the Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai seats. Besides them, one micro-observer has also been deployed at each counting table, the official said.

The opposition RJD in Bihar, which has been accusing the ruling NDA of rigging elections in the state, has decided to deploy its heavy artillery for counting of votes Tuesday in two assembly constituencies to which by-polls were held last week. According to a release issued by the party, leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav will himself be camping in Darbhanga district, where results will be announced for the reserved Kusheshwar Asthan seat.

Although in the opposition, the party has the highest number of MLAs in the strong assembly and has been alleging that it fell short of achieving power because of manipulations of results by pliant officials in the Vidhan Sabha polls last year.

The number of registered voters in this constituency is 2. This byelection was necessitated due to the death of sitting MP Independent Mohan Delkar, who was found hanging at a hotel in Mumbai on February Twenty-five centres have been set up for the counting of votes for the Mandi Lok Sabha and three Assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh, an official said on Monday. The bypolls to the Mandi parliamentary and the Assembly seats of Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai were held on October 30, the counting for which will be held on Tuesday.

As many as 19 counting centres, including two for postal ballots, were set up for Mandi and two each, including one each for postal ballots, for Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai, he added. The CEO said 11 counting observers were deputed for the Mandi parliamentary seat whereas three general observers were deputed for the Assembly seats.

The fate of 18 candidates will be decided Tuesday. Counting of votes in the keenly-watched Huzurabad Assembly constituency bypoll in Telangana would be taken up on Tuesday.

He said on Monday that 14 tables have been arranged for counting 2,05, votes. The counting would be conducted in 22 rounds. He said The by-election has been necessitated in Huzurabad in view of the resignation of Eatala Rajender in June following his removal from the state Cabinet over allegations of land-grabbing. He is seeking re-election on a BJP ticket. Out of the 29 Assembly seats, the BJP had won in around half a dozen constituencies earlier, the Congress had nine, while the rest were with the regional parties.

The fates of several prominent candidates hang in the balance as votes are set to be counted today Tuesday, 2 November. The counting of votes for three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly seats across 13 states and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli will begin at 8 am.

Of the 29 seats, the BJP held six seats, the Congress nine.