Bypolls 2024: Bypolls in 15 meeting seats unfold throughout Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala and Uttarakhand can be held on Wednesday, November 20.
Voting started at 7am, whereas the counting of votes can be held on November 23. Observe LIVE updates.
In Uttar Pradesh, polling can be held in Katehari, Karhal, Meerapur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan, Sisamau, Khair, Phulpur and Kundarki. Ninety candidates are within the fray in these seats with the utmost of 14 in Ghaziabad.
A complete of 34,35,974 voters are eligible to solid their votes, together with 18,46,846 males, 15,88,967 ladies, and 161 third-gender voters. Ghaziabad has the very best voter depend, whereas Sisamau has the bottom.
This would be the first electoral take a look at of the INDIA bloc and the NDA within the politically essential state after the Lok Sabha elections.
Within the 2022 meeting polls, Sisamau, Katehari, Karhal and Kundarki had been received by the SP, whereas the BJP received Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan and Khair. The Meerapur seat was received by BJP ally RLD.
In Punjab, bypolls can be held in 4 meeting seats – Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak, Chabbewal (SC) and Barnala
The bypolls had been necessitated after the MLAs representing the seats had been elected to the Lok Sabha within the normal elections held earlier this yr.
Of the 4 meeting segments, Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak and Chabbewal had been earlier held by the Congress, and the Barnala seat by the AAP.
The bypolls will resolve the destiny of key contestants, together with BJP nominee and former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Congress’s Amrita Warring, Jatinder Kaur, AAP’s Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon, Dr Ishank Kumar Chabbewal and BJP’s Kewal Singh Dhillon, Sohan Singh Thandal and Ravikaran Singh Kahlon.
Amrita Warring is the spouse of Punjab Congress chief and Ludhiana MP Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. Jatinder Kaur is the partner of Gurdaspur MP and former Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.
In addition to Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, bypolls may even be held for the Palakkad seat in Kerala and Kedarnath in Uttarakhand.
The bypoll in Palakkad was necessitated after the Congress MLA of the constituency, Shafi Parambil, obtained elected to the Lok Sabha from the Vadakara constituency.
The Kedarnath seat fell vacant after the demise of sitting BJP MLA Shailarani Rawat in July.
