Politics

The Worli Assembly constituency, which is being watched this poll season for being Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray’s choice to contest his first election, saw low voter turnout in the first half of Monday, even though it caught up during the second half. In the 2014 assembly elections, it had […]

For the second time in a row, Mumbai managed to breach the 50% threshold in the Assembly election voter turnout as it touched 50.67% on Monday. The turnout was 51.21% in 2014 state polls. The number is, however, lower than city’s Lok Sabha turnout of 55.23% in April, which was […]

Haryana saw 65.66% voter turnout till 10pm as per provisional figures provided by the Voter Turnout app of the Election Commission of India — lower than the 2014 assembly election turnout of 76% — as the fates of 1,169 candidates including 105 women were sealed in the electronic voting machines […]

Polling for 51 assembly seats in 16 states, including Kerala, Telangana, Bihar, Gujarat, Rajasthan among others, and the union territory of Puducherry, took place on Monday with polling percentages ranging between 47.66% (Uttar Pradesh) and 92.94% (Arunachal Pradesh),according to provisional figures provided by the Election Commission of India’s Voter Turnout […]

Voting for the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections – the first set of elections after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls – is taking place on Monday, October 21. While the BJP is seeking to add to its electoral success by retaining control over the two state assemblies, the Opposition is […]

Voting for the assembly polls has begun in Maharashtra and Haryana, in the first set of elections after the Lok Sabha polls of 2019. In both states, chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Devendra Fadnavis and Manohar Lal Khattar, are seeking second terms even as the Congress and […]

It is BJP verses others once again in the Lucknow Cantonment assembly constituency, which is dominated by Brahim, Sikh and Punjabi voters. Since 1991, the saffron brigade has maintained its sway in the constituency, barring in 2012 when Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi had defeated three-time sitting BJP MLA Suresh […]

Voting in bypolls to 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh is being held on Monday. However, the results of these elections would have no bearing on the ruling BJP’s numerical dominance in the state assembly. But the buzz around these polls isn’t without reason. Ahead of the 2022 UP assembly […]

The BJP’s Swatantra Dev Singh and the Congress’ Ajay Kumar Lallu are keen to hit a victory note as their party’s Uttar Pradesh unit chiefs in the bypolls to 11 Assembly seats on Monday to boost morale of their workers before the 2022 state elections. Of the 11 seats going […]

The Election Commission has served a notice to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Assandh in Haryana over his purported remark that he had tampered the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and every vote would go to his party. In a video, Bakshish Virk was heard saying he and his […]

A day before assembly polls, authorities in Gurugram are confident of conducting a smooth polling process. In the four assembly constituencies of Gurugram district, around 1.2 million voters will determine the fate of 54 candidates. Speaking about the arrangements, District Deputy Commissioner, Amit Khatri said, “Pink booths, which are manned […]

The Haryana assembly election 2019 will be held on Monday, October 21 as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will look to repeat its performance and realise its target of bagging over 75 seats. There are 90 assembly constituencies, of which 17 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes, which will go […]

Photographs and videos of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar addressing an election rally in Maharashtra’s Satara amid heavy rains are being widely shared on social media platforms. The 78-year old leader was addressing the crowd in Satara, which is considered the NCP’s stronghold, on Friday, just ahead of Monday’s […]