Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK Wednesday won by a comfortable margin in two assembly constituencies where by-polls were held Dec 19, the Election Commission said.
Anita Radhakrishnan, the party’s candidate for the Tiruchendur assembly seat secured more than 46,000 votes over AIADMK rival while DMK’s Vandavasi candidate Kamalakannan won with a margin of [...]
Ranchi, Dec 18 (IANS) The fifth and final phase of electiosn to the Jharkhand assembly Friday, marred by deaths of two security men in violence, saw 58.12 percent voter turnout, an election official here said.
Two other security personnel were injured and two schools were blown up by Maoist guerrillas.
‘In the fifth phase of Jharkhand [...]
Ranchi, Dec 18 (IANS) The Election Commission Friday monitored voting in eight polling booths live through web cameras during the fifth and final phase of Jharkhand assembly polls, an official said.
The commission monitored voting in booths in seven assembly constituencies – two in Daltanganj, and one each at Garwah, Seraikela, Chaibasa, Chatra, Latehar and Barkatha.
The [...]
Ranchi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Election Commission has reallocated 149 polling booths in Maoist affected areas of Jharkhand ahead of the fifth phase of assembly polls Friday.
A press release by Jharkhand Election Commission Thursday said polling booths have been reallocated in 13 of the 16 assembly constituencies that go to the polls.
The highest number of [...]
Chennai, Dec 16 (IANS) The Election Commission will record live the happenings inside the polling booths during Dec 19 bypolls for the two assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu, a senior election official said Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters here, Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta said: ‘The live recording through webcam will help to see whether the voter [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Election Commission Wednesday sent a senior official to the Bihar capital Patna to monitor security for the last phase of assembly elections in adjoining Jharkhand.
‘With a view to establish adequate security network for the last phase of polling in Jharkhand, the ECI (Election Commission of India) has deputed its [...]
Ranchi, Dec 10 (IANS) Campaigning in the 14 assembly constituencies where polling will be held Saturday in the fourth phase of polls to the 81-member Jharkhand assembly ended Thursday.
Of these 14 assembly seats, 12 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and most of them are situated in areas considered to be Maoist strongholds. A [...]
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The third phase of the Jharkhand assembly elections Tuesday witnessed 56 percent voter turnout, while two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were killed in a Maoist attack, the Election Commission said here.
‘Voter turnout till 3 p.m. was approximately 56 percent,’ said a statement issued by the poll panel here.
The poll [...]
Chennai, Dec 6 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, opposition AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa and actor-turned-DMDK leader Vijayakant would join the campaign next week for the by-polls to two assembly seats Dec 19.
Polls will be held in Vandavasi and Tiruchendur assembly constituencies.
Stalin is expected to campaign in Tiruchendur Dec 13-14 for [...]
Ranchi, Dec 4 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hit the campaign trail in Jharkhand Friday.
Rajnath Singh arrived here Thursday night. He is to campaign at four places that go to polls in the third phase of assembly elections Dec 8. A [...]
Chennai, Dec 3 (IANS) The Election Commission has accepted 42 nominations filed for the Dec 19 bypolls in Vandavasi and Tiruchendur assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu, an official said Thursday.
In Vandavasi, the poll panel found 14 valid nominations of which eight are independents. In Tiruchendur, the number of candidates will be 28 of which 25 [...]
Ranchi, Nov 30 (IANS) Fearing attacks by Maoists, wives of officials who will oversee the second phase of Jharkhand’s assembly polls Wednesday are praying for their safety.
Although authorities have promised a violence free election, everyone has their fingers crossed since all the 14 assembly constituencies in the second round are known Maoist strongholds.
These are Tamar, [...]
Ranchi, Nov 30 (IANS) Campaigning for the second phase of polls to the Jharkhand assembly, scheduled for Dec 2, came to an end Monday.
The campaigning ended at 3 p.m.
In the second phase, 14 of the total 81 assembly constituencies go to the polls. The state is holding a five-phased election that ends Dec 18 [...]
Ranchi (Jharkhand), Nov 29 (ANI): Maoists blew up another railway track in Simdega this morning, damaging about one meter of the line. It had damaged another railway track on Saturday.
The incidents came ahead of the second phase of Assembly polls in Jharkhand that is scheduled for December 2.
First a railway track was blown up between [...]
Ranchi, Nov 27 (ANI): The campaigning in Jharkhand is gaining momentum for the second phase of elections.
In the second phase, the polling will be held in second of the next month in 14 of the remaining 55 constituencies.
The leaders of various political parties are attending to the election meetings in different parts of the state.
In [...]
Ranchi, Nov 26 (IANS) Writer and theatre personality Deepak Ranjan Chatterjee was shocked when officials at a polling booth in Jharkhand told him that he could not vote because he was dead — in their records!
A day after the first round of assembly elections in the state Wednesday, Chatterjee related what he underwent in Jamshedpur [...]
Jamshedpur, Nov 26 (IANS) Younger politicians in Jharkhand are shedding khadi for denims and other forms of western wear while campaigning for the ongoing state assembly polls.
Banna Gupta of the Congress, or independents Sailesh Verma or Anand Bihari Dubey, candidates from two assembly constituencies in this steel city, have opted for office shirts, denims or [...]
Ranchi, Nov 24 (IANS) Four Indian Air Force helicopters have been pressed into service to ensure peaceful polling in Wednesday’s first phase of Jharkhand’s assembly elections, police said.
Strict security arrangements have been made because of a Maoist threat during polling to the 81-member assembly.
‘Adequate security arrangements have been made for peaceful polling on Wednesday. We [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) At least 108 candidates with criminal record are contesting the first phase of Jharkhand assembly elections scheduled Nov 25, an analysis of the affidavits revealed Monday. These candidates are from all major political parties.
The analysis done by voluntary organisation National Election Watch and its partner organisations, said the criminal cases [...]
Chennai, Nov 21 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (CPI) will decide Sunday here whether to contest in the by-polls for the Vandavasi and Tiruchendur constituencies Dec 19.
Speaking to reporters in Erode around 440 km from here, the state unit’s General Secretary D. Pandian said the executive council will meet here and discuss the issue [...]
Ranchi, Nov 15 (IANS) The 2009 Jharkhand assembly poll will be different from the previous elections. It has former chief minister Madhu Koda, who is at the centre of a Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam, campaigning hard for his supporters, while six of his tainted ex-cabinet colleagues are also in the fray.
Koda, who ruled the [...]
Ranchi, Nov 10 (IANS) Questioning the Election Commission’s move to reschedule dates of elections in four assembly constituencies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday alleged that the Congress has influenced the poll panel to ‘improve’ its position in Jharkhand.
‘The Congress is trying to influence the Election Commission and district administrations in the state. Its position [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress Tuesday won all three assembly by-elections in Kerala, dealing a blow to the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) that had prided itself on the record of never losing a by-election while in power.
Elections took place to the Kannur, Ernakulam and Alappuzha assembly constituencies last week after Congress legislators got [...]
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress scored major victories in by-elections for one Lok Sabha and 31 assembly constituencies across seven states in which the biggest losers were the beleaguered Left and the Samajwadi Party.
Of the 10 assembly seats in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Kerala and Chhattisgarh, the Congress [...]
Guwahati, Nov 10 (IANS) Assam’s ruling Congress party Tuesday won both assembly constituencies that saw by-elections three days ago, defeating opposition candidates by convincing margins.
Wajed Ali Choudhury defeated Asom United Democratic Front’s (AUDF) Abdur Rahman Ajmal, son of party chief Badruddin Ajmal, by more than 6,000 votes in the South Salmara seat in western Assam.
Bhimananda [...]
Guwahati, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress was Tuesday leading in the two Assam assembly constituencies for which elections were held last week.
According to latest trends, Wajed Ali Choudhury was leading by more than 4,000 votes in the South Salmara seat with the Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) candidate Abdur Rahman Ajmal, son of party chief [...]
Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) The opposition Trinamool Congress-Congress combine was ahead in six and the Left Front in three as votes cast in Saturday’s by-elections in 10 assembly constituencies of West Bengal were counted Tuesday.
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha-backed independent Wilson Champamari was leading by over 8,000 votes after the fourth round of counting at Kalichini [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress Tuesday won all three assembly constituencies in Kerala that saw by-elections Saturday, officials said.
In Kannur, former CPI-M Lok Sabha member A.P. Abdulla Kutty defeated M.V. Jayarajan of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) by over 12,000 votes.
In Ernakulam, Dominic Presentation defeated CPI-M’s P.N. Seenulal by more than 8,000 [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 10 (IANS) Congress candidates were Tuesday leading in all three assembly constituencies in Kerala that saw by-elections Saturday, officials and party leaders said.
A.P. Abdulla Kutty led in Kannur, a traditional Congress stronghold. ‘We are are winning easily,’ Congress leader Sunny Joseph said in Kannur.
In Ernakulam, initial trends showed that Congress’ Dominic Presentation had [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 10 (IANS) Candidates of Kerala’s ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) were in the lead Tuesday as officials counted the postal ballots cast in Saturday’s by-elections in the assembly constituencies of Kannur, Ernakulam and Alappuzha.
