Assembly bye-poll results: Counting of votes to begin at 8 am

The counting of votes for the bye-elections to 46 Assembly constituencies and two Lok Sabha seats in 15 states will begin at 8 am on Saturday.

Voting for the bye-polls in Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency and 31 Assembly seats occurred on November 13. Voting for the remaining 15 Assembly constituencies and the Nanded Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra was held on November 20.

In most cases, the bye-elections had to be conducted as the seats fell vacant when their MLAs were elected as MPs in the recent Lok Sabha elections.

Bye-election results for two seats in Sikkim – Soreng-Chakung and Namchi-Singhithang – have already been declared. Sikkim Krantikari Morcha candidates Aditya Golay and Satish Chandra Rai were on October 30 elected unopposed to the Assembly after the opposing candidates withdrew their nominations.

Lok Sabha bye-elections

In Kerala, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made her electoral debut by contesting from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi won from both Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli and Wayanad in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. However, he could only retain one of the seats according to the provisions of the Representation of People Act.

Vadra contested against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Navya Haridas and the Communist Party of India candidate Sathyan Mokeri.

Voter turnout during the bye-polls in Wayanad was 64.72%, which was a drop of 9.15 percentage...

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