By-election for Wayanad Lok Sabha seat of Kerala will be held on 13 November and counting of votes will take place on 23 November. Apart from this, by-elections for 1 parliamentary constituency (Nanded) in Maharashtra will be held on November 20. At the same time, by-elections for 47 assembly seats will be held on November 13. By-election will be held on an assembly seat in Uttarakhand on November 20. All results will come on November 23. By-elections will be held on 47 assembly seats in 14 states including UP, Bihar, Assam, Karnataka, MP, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Sikkim.
Also read: Jharkhand Assembly elections: Voting will be held in two phases in Jharkhand, results will come on November 23.
By-elections were to be held on 10 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh. However, there will be no by-election on Milkipur seat. Wayanad seat in Kerala was vacated by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as he decided to retain Rae Bareli seat. He won the Lok Sabha elections from both the seats. The assembly seats for which by-elections are to be held in UP are: Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Mirapur (Muzaffarnagar), Ghaziabad, Mazhawan (Mirzapur), Shishmau (Kanpur City), Khair (Aligarh), Phulpur (Prayagraj) and Kundarki (Moradabad). .
Also read: Maharashtra Assembly elections: Votes will be cast on November 20, counting of votes will take place on November 23.
Eight out of ten seats became vacant after the MLAs were elected as MPs in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. The by-election on the ninth seat, Shishamau, is being held due to the disqualification of SP MLA Irfan Solanki, who is convicted in a criminal case. The by-elections in UP are a big test for the opposition, which is trying to repeat its Lok Sabha success in the state. In the last Lok Sabha elections, Congress had contested 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with SP. SP won 37 seats, while Congress managed to secure six seats, boosting the morale of the party which has been marginalized in the state for years.
