EC announces bypolls to 56 Assembly seats, one LS constituency

On November 7, polling will be held for two Assembly seats in Manipur and 1 Lok Sabha seat in Bihar will vote on November 7.

The largest chunk of seats going up for polls are from Madhya Pradesh where 28 seats fell vacant after rebel Congress MLAs had switched over to the BJP in March. This had led to the fall of the Kamal Nath-led government in the state.

The votes for all the bypolls will be counted on November 10, alongside the counting of votes for the General Assembly elections in Bihar.

Before announcing the schedule, the poll panel issued a separate statement on Tuesday to say that it has decided not to hold “at this stage” Assembly bypolls in seven seats across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal.

The decision has been taken based on inputs received from the chief secretaries and poll officials in these states, the poll panel said in the release.

While there are two vacancies each in the Assemblies of Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, one seat is vacant in the West Bengal legislature.

The term of the Legislative Assemblies of the four states would end on different dates between May and June next year. — With PTI Inputs