The Election Commission on November 5 announced the dates for by-elections for vacant parliamentary and assembly constituencies in five states.
Bypolls will be held in Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on December 5 and the counting of votes will take place on December 8.
Bypolls will also be held in Odisha’s Padampur, Rajasthan’s Sardarshahr, Bihar’s Kurhani, Chhattisgarh’s Bhanupratappur (ST) and Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur, from where Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan was sentenced to three years in prison in a hate speech case. was disqualified. last month.
According to an ECI notification, after the death of Samajwadi Party veteran and MP Mulayam Singh Yadav, polling will be held in Mainpuri parliamentary constituency on October 10.
The by-elections will be held along with the results of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections.
View the full schedule here:
Gazette notification release date 10th November
The last date for filing nominations is November 17.
The date of scrutiny for nomination is November 18.
Candidates will be able to withdraw their candidature till November 21.
Voting date 5th December
The date of counting of votes is December 8.
(with inputs from ANI)
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