Kolkata: West Bengal In the by-elections going on in the four assembly constituencies of the state on Saturday, 45.37 percent polling was recorded till 1 pm.
According to the Election Commission, 47.83 percent polling was recorded in Dinhata assembly seat while 52.19 percent polling was recorded in Gosaba seat.
Khardaha seat recorded 39.30 per cent polling while Shantipur seat recorded 48.02 per cent polling.
Voting began at around 7 am and will continue till 6.30 pm on Saturday.
Shantipur and Dinhata seats were vacant after BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar Nishith Pramanik respectively resigned from the assembly.
While the other two seats are being held as All India Trinamool Congress.TMC) MLA Kajal Sinha (Khardah) and Jayant Naskari (Gosaba) died due to Kovid-19.
There is a tough fight between BJP and TMC to retain their seats and capture the other two.
TMC leader Sovandeb ChattopadhyayWho had resigned from Bhabnipur constituency for the convenience of the Chief Minister Mamata BanerjeeThe assembly election is being contested from Khardah.
The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC registered a landslide victory in the elections held earlier this year, winning 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly. BJP has emerged as the second largest party with 77 seats.
Apart from West Bengal, voting is being held today in three parliamentary seats and 26 other assembly constituencies in different states across the country.
The results of these elections will be declared on November 2.
“The Commission has reviewed the response from the States/UTs concerned about the pandemic, floods, festivals, cold conditions in certain areas and took into account all the facts and circumstances and decided to hold bye-elections to fill up the vacancies in the three The decision has been taken to have 30 vacancies in the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Parliamentary Constituencies; Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh and Assembly Constituencies of various States,” read the press note of the Election Commission of India issued on 28 September.
According to the Election Commission, 47.83 percent polling was recorded in Dinhata assembly seat while 52.19 percent polling was recorded in Gosaba seat.
Khardaha seat recorded 39.30 per cent polling while Shantipur seat recorded 48.02 per cent polling.
Voting began at around 7 am and will continue till 6.30 pm on Saturday.
Shantipur and Dinhata seats were vacant after BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar Nishith Pramanik respectively resigned from the assembly.
While the other two seats are being held as All India Trinamool Congress.TMC) MLA Kajal Sinha (Khardah) and Jayant Naskari (Gosaba) died due to Kovid-19.
There is a tough fight between BJP and TMC to retain their seats and capture the other two.
TMC leader Sovandeb ChattopadhyayWho had resigned from Bhabnipur constituency for the convenience of the Chief Minister Mamata BanerjeeThe assembly election is being contested from Khardah.
The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC registered a landslide victory in the elections held earlier this year, winning 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly. BJP has emerged as the second largest party with 77 seats.
Apart from West Bengal, voting is being held today in three parliamentary seats and 26 other assembly constituencies in different states across the country.
The results of these elections will be declared on November 2.
“The Commission has reviewed the response from the States/UTs concerned about the pandemic, floods, festivals, cold conditions in certain areas and took into account all the facts and circumstances and decided to hold bye-elections to fill up the vacancies in the three The decision has been taken to have 30 vacancies in the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Parliamentary Constituencies; Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh and Assembly Constituencies of various States,” read the press note of the Election Commission of India issued on 28 September.
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