64 Assembly seats, declared by-election on one Lok Sabha seat

New delhi date. September 21, 2019, Saturday

The Election Commission on Saturday announced the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, along with 64 assembly seats in 18 states and one by-elections in the Lok Sabha.

These seats will be voted with the Legislative Assembly on October 21st and counting will take place on October 24, ”Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said.

Of the 64 assembly seats of different states, Karnataka will have a maximum of 15 seats and 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The sitting MLA was recently disqualified by the chairperson in Karnataka under the anti-immigration law.

In Uttar Pradesh, the majority of the 11 assembly constituencies have won the Lok Sabha elections and have resigned from the assembly. With the election of Lok Janshakti Party MP Ramchandra Paswan passed away in July, the election on the Samastipur seat became necessary.

However, despite the assembly elections in Maharashtra, no by-elections will be held on the 21st of Satara's Lok Sabha seat. Due to Durga Puja festival in West Bengal, the state government has recommended not to hold the polls at present. Assembly polls will not be held in Uttarakhand as the process of panchayat elections is underway, Arora said.

In some states, by-election hearings are reserved in the High Courts as there are no by-elections. After Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, five seats in Bihar and Kerala, four in Gujarat, Punjab and Assam, 3 in Sikkim, two in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu and one each in Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha and Puducherry. The notification for 64 by-elections and one by-elections for the Lok Sabha will be announced on September 23. Other processing dates, however, will remain the same.