Maharashtra & Haryana Assembly Polls 2019 And Bye Polls on 65 Seats

Election commission today announced the dates for the upcoming Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora held the press conference to announce the poll schedule. With the announcement of dates Model Code of Conduct has come into effect.


Poll Schedule:- 

 Date of Issue of Gazette Notification: September 27, 2019
Last date of Nomination: October 4, 2019
Date for Scrutiny of Nominations: October 5, 2019
Last date for withdrawal of candidature: October 7, 2019  
Polling Date: October 21, 2019
Counting Date: October 24, 2019

 Key Points:-

  • Maharashtra has total 288 Assembly seats while Haryana has 90 seats in its Legislative Assembly. In case of Maharashtra the key contest will be between BJP, Shiv-Sena alliance and Congress, NCP alliance. Congress and NCP has already announced seat sharing agreement. Both the parties will contest on 125-125 seats and remaining 38 seats are left for other alliance partners. While in case of Haryana after the split of Om Prakash Chautala's Indian National Lok Dal, the triangular contest has now become the straight contest between BJP and Congress. 
  • The 5-year term of the Legislative Assemblies of Haryana and Maharashtra expires on 2nd November and 9th November.
  • Election in both the states will be conducted in a single phase. Special security arrangements will be made for Maoist prone areas in Gadchiroli and Gondia in Maharashtra said CEC Sunil Arora.
  • There is a Rs 28 lakh-cap on poll expense on each candidate. CEC also appealed the candidates to use environment-friendly materials. 
  • CEC reassured all the stakeholders about the quality of electronic voting machines.
  • Total number of polling stations in Haryana will be 19,425 which will be 19.58% higher than last Assembly polls and in case of Maharashtra the number of polling stations will be 95,473 which will be 5.61% higher than 2014 Assembly polls.
  • Total number of electors as per the final electoral rolls in Maharashtra will be  8,95,62,706 and in Haryana will be 1,82,98,714.
State
Total No. of
Assembly Constituencies
Reserved for SCs
Reserved for STs
Maharashtra
288
29
25
Haryana
90
17
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Bye Polls on 65  Seats:- 

Chief Election Commissioner today also announced by polls for 64 Assembly seats in 17 states and 1 UT and bye poll on 1 Parliamentary constituency in Bihar to fill the vacancies.

 Parliamentary Bye Poll:-
State
No. Of Parliamentary
Seats
Constituency
Bihar
1
Samastipur (SC)


Assembly Bye Poll:-
State
No. of Seats
Karnataka
15
Uttar Pradesh
11
Kerala
5
Bihar
5
Gujarat
4
Assam
4
Punjab
4
Sikkim
3
Himachal Pradesh
2
Tamil Nadu
2
Rajasthan
2
Arunachal Pradesh
1
Telangana
1
Madhya Pradesh
1
Meghalaya
1
Odisha
1
Puducherry
1

Poll Schedule:- 

 Date of Issue of Gazette Notification: September 23, 2019
Last date of Nomination: September 30, 2019
Date for Scrutiny of Nominations: October 1, 2019
Last date for withdrawal of candidature: October 3, 2019  
Polling Date: October 21, 2019
Counting Date: October 24, 2019
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