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Assembly Poll Highlights: Voting ends in phase 3, high voter turnout recorded
Assembly Election 2021 Live Updates: Single round polling was held in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry; Assam and Bengal vote in third phase of assembly elections
On the biggest day of election cycle since the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, voting took place in 475 of the total 824 assembly constituencies across the states of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union territory of Puducherry on Tuesday. West Bengal, which voted in its third phase, will have five more rounds of polling. A visibly enthusiastic voting was held in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry in a single phase for all their assembly seats. In the state of Assam, people voted for the last of its three-phase polls. The results for all the four states and one Union territory will be announced on May 2....Read More
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In the third phase of polling in West Bengal, voting took place for 31 seats that witnessed a tough fight between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In Assam, voting was held in 40 out of the 126 seats in the final phase and the contest is between the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Congress-led Mahajot.
In Tamil Nadu, all the 234 assembly seats are in the fray and the contest is between the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led alliance and the incumbent All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). In Kerala, 140 seats witness a fierce fight between the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF). In Puducherry, voters exercise their franchise for the 30 assembly seats shortly after the Union territory slipped into a political crisis before the elections were announced as the Congress-led government fell due to defections.
