Polling for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council to elect 36 representatives from 35 local authority constituencies passed off Thursday with around 90 percent of the electorate exercising their franchise, an official said.
‘While we are still to ascertain the exact polling percentage, we have learnt that it would be somewhere near 90 percent. The exact polling [...]
Raipur, Dec 6 (IANS) Two Chhattisgarh Congress veterans – former chief minister Ajit Jogi and nine-time MP V.C. Shukla – have revived their rivalry ahead of this month’s polls to civic bodies.
Party insiders say that the two leaders have opposed each other at crucial party meets in the past one week over selection of party [...]
Ranchi, Dec 2 (IANS) The second phase of Jharkhand elections saw a 54.2 percent turnout Wednesday, with people coming out to vote even in Maoist strongholds. Polling was largely peaceful, barring one incident in which a security personnel was killed.
According to election officials, 54.2 percent of eligible voters cast the ballot for polls to 14 [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Jharkhand recorded 52 percent voting in the first phase of assembly elections Wednesday, the Election Commission said. Polls were held in 26 of the state’s 81 constituencies.
‘Fifty two percent polling was recorded till 3 p.m.,’ Deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla told reporters here.
‘Elections were largely peaceful, except for one [...]
Ranchi, Nov 25 (IANS) An average of 54 percent voting was recorded in the first phase of elections to the Jharkhand assembly Wednesday. The polling was largely peaceful and no untoward incident was reported, officials here said.
‘The average polling in 26 assembly seats is around 54 percent,’ said an official of the Jharkhand Election Commission.
Voting [...]
Ranchi, Nov 25 (IANS) After a slow start, voting on the first day of five-phased Jharkhand assembly elections gained momentum by Wednesday afternoon, poll panel officials said.
According to the state election commission, the voting percentage was around 36 percent till 1 p.m. The highest voting was recorded at Sarath assembly seat with 43 percent.
Elections in [...]
Ranchi, Nov 25 (IANS) With temperatures dipping to six degrees Celsius in some parts, voting in the first phase of Jharkhand’s assembly election got off to a slow start.
In the first three hours of polling that began at 7 a.m., 13 to 14 percent of the electorate had voted, officials said.
The highest turnout was [...]
Ranchi, Nov 25 (IANS) Voting for 26 of the 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand began at 7 a.m. Wednesday amid heavy security arrangements, an official said.
In the first phase of the polling, 470 candidates including 194 independents are in the fray. Polling for this phase would be held at 8176 polling stations with the use [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 23 (IANS) Polling was under way amid tight security Monday in the elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
About 10 percent of votes were polled in the first two hours (till 9 a.m.) of the polling for the 150-member civic body, officials said.
About 5.7 million voters are eligible to cast their votes [...]
Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) About 49 percent of the 4.9 million electors in Saturday’s by-elections in Uttar Pradesh turned out to cast their vote in 11 state assembly and one parliamentary constituency.
Even as the state’s chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha described the poll as ‘peaceful and incident free’, a death was reported from a village [...]
Raipur, Nov 7 (IANS) An estimated 50-55 percent of the over 200,000 electorate exercised their franchise in Chhattisgarh’s Vaishali Nagar assembly seat by-poll Saturday, officials said.
Election officials said that voting was peaceful at most of the 221 polling booths.
‘Voting was largely peaceful except for a few minor incidents. Though the final polling percentage will [...]
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Setting aside a Central Information Commission (CIC) order, the Delhi High Court Thursday held that information stored in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) cannot be made public under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna overruled the CIC order that asked the Election Commission to reveal information in EVMs to [...]
Bhopal, Nov 3 (IANS) Ballot papers would be used, instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), in the civic polls slated before Dec 20 in Madhya Pradesh, the state Election Commissioner said Tuesday.
Election Commissioner A.V. Singh told reporters here that elections would be held in two phases to 268 of the 358 civic bodies in the [...]
Mumbai/Chandigarh/Itanagar, Oct 22 (IANS) The Congress came up trumps in the electoral sweepstakes Thursday retaining power in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh but falling short of absolute majority in Haryana, leaving the main opposition BJP further weakened in the first popularity test since the general elections in May.
In the politically significant state of Maharashtra, the Congress-Nationalist [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) There is no one reason or one person responsible for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) defeat in the Haryana assembly elections, its general secretary Vijay Goel said Thursday contradicting a senior party colleague.
‘There is no one reason or one person responsible. We are looking at the reasons,’ Goel told CNN-IBN [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been turned into the Electronic Victory Machines by the Congress in the recently held assembly elections.
“We have received numerous complaints of tampering with the EVMs and bulk voting by the Congress from many regions,” said [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday blamed the electronic voting machines (EVMs) for its defeat in state elections, saying the EVMs had become ‘electronic victory machines’ for the Congress.
‘The electronic voting machines are electronic victory machines for the Congress,’ Naqvi told reporters here. ‘It is a sponsored victory for the [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 20 (IANS) Fool-proof arrangements, including those for security, have been made for counting of votes Thursday for 90 assembly seats in Haryana held Oct 13.
The counting would commence at 8 a.m. on Oct 22 at 90 counting centres, Haryana chief electoral officer Sajjan Singh said here Tuesday.
Singh said a three-tier cordoning system would [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 13 (IANS) Around 69 percent of Haryana’s 13 million voters exercised their franchise Tuesday for elections to the 90-member assembly that were marred by stray incidents of violence, including the killing of a poll agent.
Incidents of violence were reported from Hemu Majra village in Guhla (reserved) constituency in Kaithal district where Jyoti Ram, [...]
Itanagar, Oct 13 (IANS) Voting in the assembly election in Arunachal Pradesh ended Tuesday with heavy turnout, officials said.
‘Voting has ended peacefully with premilinary reports that an estimated 70 percent polling was recorded,’ an election official said here.
‘The final polling percentage could be a little higher as we are still compiling figures from remote areas,’ [...]
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Election Commission to respond to Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy’s plea that electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in India lacked necessary safeguards to protect the integrity of a poll outcome and demanded that they be replaced.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash [...]
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Tuesday filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) lacked necessary safeguards to protect the integrity of a poll outcome and demanded that they be replaced.
The court will hear Swamy’s plea Wednesday.
In his petition, Swamy stated [...]
Mumbai, Sep 17 (IANS) The stage is set for putting the election process in motion for the Oct 13 Maharashtra assembly polls with the opening of the nominations all over the state from Friday, an election official said.
‘As per the schedule announced last month by the Election Commission, the nominations shall open tomorrow (Friday) morning [...]
New Delhi, Sep 5 (ANI): An independent candidate, Manoj Chaudhury of the Department of Buddhist Studies won the president’s post of the Delhi University Student’s Union (DUSU) elections on Saturday.
After a gap of 18 years an independent candidate is becoming the president of DUSU. In 1991 Rajiv Goswami won the DUSU presidentship being an independent [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 5 (ANI): The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday visited Haryana and met leaders of various political parties to review arrangements being made prior to the Haryana Assembly elections scheduled to be held on October 13.
Chief Election Commissioner [...]
New Delhi, Aug.31, New Delhi (ANI): Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced Electronic Voting Machines will be used in all the three States-Maharashtra, Haryana, and Arunachal Pradesh that undergo elections on October 13.
The single-phased elections will be held for total 438 [...]
