Mizoram election result 2018: Chief Electoral Officer Ashish Kundra said that counting was taking place at 40 counting halls in 13 centres across the mountainous state. The polls were held on November 28. read more

Rajasthan election results 2018: Chief electoral officer (CEO) Anand Kumar had on Saturday night announced that the ECI had nullified the voting at the booth at government primary school in 18 BB in Karanpur constituency, and ordered for repoll. read more

Chief electoral officer Anand Kumar said that the Election Commission of India directed the repolling to be held on Monday. The polling will be from 8am to 5pm. read more

The Election Commission has suspended two polling officials after a sealed EVM was found lying on the road in Shahabad area of Kishanganj Assembly Constituency in Rajasthan’s Baran district. In an order passed late in the evening, the two officials Abdul Rafiq and Nawal Singh Patwari, have been suspended after the EVM (serial number BBUAD41390) was found lying on the road. The suspension order cited negligence on behalf of the two men while placing them under suspension. The suspension order stated that the EVM has been taken into custody and kept at a strongroom under guard. District collector SP Singh said that the reserve EVM had possibly slipped from the truck and fallen on the road. (Hindustan Times)read more

The BJP had planned three so-called ‘rath yatras’, including the one in Cooch Behar, covering most of the parliamentary seats and 294 assembly constituencies over the next one-and-a-half months. read more

Telangana assembly elections: Polling will be held between 7 am and 5 pm for 106 of the 119 seats, while voting in 13 Maoist-affected seats will start at 7 am and end at 4 pm. The main contest is between the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the Congress-led... read more

Rajasthan assembly elections: Polling will be held between 8 am and 5 pm for 199 of the 200 assembly seats, with the main contest between the BJP and the Congress. read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: The EC found Kishangarh constituency general observer Kanwaljeet Singh Cheema’s presentation on poll preparedness ‘unsatisfactory’ and replaced him with another officer. read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Sitaram Agarwal, the Congress candidate from Vidhyadhar Nagar assembly seat says his two priorities are improving law and order situation and uninterrupted water supply in every ward. read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Girija Vyas of Congress and Gulab Chand Kataria of BJP are contesting from the Udaipur assembly seat. Both are entrenched in the politics of the region. read more

Telangana assembly elections 2018: The police said the arrest was necessitated with a view to preventing any untoward incident in Kodangal in the wake of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president KCR’s meeting later in the evening. read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: A copy of the order announcing postponement of election in Rajasthan’s Ramgarh constituency was sent to the Election Commission of India, election department, district election officer and others. The next date of voting... read more

Rajasthan assembly election 2018: Congress candidate from Rajasthan’s Barmer assembly constituency Mewaram Jain has alleged that the attack on him was a planned conspiracy by the BJP candidate Colonel Sonaram Choudhary. read more

Around 75 per cent polling was recorded till 6 p.m. in Madhya Pradesh’s 227 assembly constituencies against 72.13 per cent recorded in 2013 assembly polls, Election Commission officials said in New Delhi. read more

Three air-conditioned buses have been decorated as raths or chariots for the yatras (processions) to galvanise support for the BJP in the state ahead of the national elections due next year. read more