Election Commission Announces Bye-Poll Dates For 48 Assembly Seats, 2 Lok Sabha Constituencies

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday announced the election dates not only for Maharashtra and Jharkhand but also for the 48 assembly constituencies and 2 Parliamentary seats spread across 15 states.This also includes 9 out of the 10 vacant assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh.

The Election Commission said that voting for Maharashtra assembly elections will be held in single phase on November 20 while Jharkhand will go to the polls in two phases - November 13 and November 20. The counting of votes will take place on November 23.

While most of these seats fell vacant due to the resignation of the sitting legislators, the Nanded Lok Sabha seat of Maharashtra fell vacant due to the death of MP Chavan Vasantrao Balwantrao, two seats of Rajasthan - the Ramgarh assembly constituency fell vacant due to the death of MLA Zubair Khan and Salumber seat due to the death of the MLA Amrit Lal Meena.

The Kedarnath assembly seat in Uttarakhand fell vacant due to the death of MLA Shailarani Rawat. The Sishamau assembly seat of Uttar Pradesh fell vacant due to the disqualification of MLA Haji Irfan Solanki following his conviction in a case.

The Wayanad Lok Sabha seat fell vacant following resignation of Rahul Gandhi who was also elected from the Raebareli seat in Uttar Pradesh.

Name of State	No. and Name of AC/PC	Reason of Vacancy
Assam	11-Dholai (SC) AC	Resignation of Parimal Suklabaidya
	31-Sidli (ST) AC	Resignation of Joyanta Basumatary
	32-Bongaigaon AC	Resignation of Phani Bhusan Choudhury
	77-Behali AC	Resignation of Ranjit Dutta
	88-Samaguri AC	Resignation of Rakibul Hussain
Bihar	196-Tarari AC	Resignation of Sudama Prasad
	203-Ramgarh AC	Resignation of Sudhakar Singh
	227-Imamganj (SC) AC	Resignation of Jitan Ram Manjhi
	232-Belaganj AC	Resignation of Surendra Prasad Yadav
Chhattisgarh	51-Raipur City South AC	Resignation of Brijmohan Agrawal
Gujarat	7-Vav AC	Resignation of Geniben Nagaji Thakor
Karnataka	83-Shiggaon AC	Resignation of Basavaraj Bommai
	95-Sandur (ST) AC	Resignation of E Tukaram
	185-Channapatna AC	Resignation of H D Kumaraswamy
Kerala	56-Palakkad AC	Resignation of Shafi Parambil
	61-Chelakkara (SC) AC	Resignation of K. Radhakrishnan
	4-Wayanad PC	Resignation of Rahul Gandhi
Madhya Pradesh	156-Budhni AC	Resignation of Shivraj Singh Chouhan
	02-Vijaypur AC	Resignation of Ramnivas Rawat
Maharashtra	16-Nanded PC	Death of Chavan Vasantrao Balwantrao
Meghalaya	56-Gambegre (ST) AC	Resignation of Saleng A. Sangma
Punjab	10-Dera Baba Nanak AC	Resignation of Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa
	44-Chabbewal (SC) AC	Resignation of Dr. Raj Kumar
	84-Gidderbaha AC	Resignation of Amarinder Singh Raja Warring
	103-Barnala AC	Resignation of Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer
Rajasthan	27-Jhunjhunu AC	Resignation of Brijendra Singh Ola
	67-Ramgarh AC	Death of Zubair Khan
	88-Dausa AC	Resignation of Murari Lal Meena
	97-Deoli-Uniara AC	Resignation of Harish Chandra Meena
	110-Khinwsar AC	Resignation of Hanuman Beniwal
	156-Salumber (ST) AC	Death of Amrit Lal Meena
	161-Chorasi (ST) AC	Resignation of Rajkumar Roat
Sikkim	07-Soreng-Chakung AC	Resignation of P.S. Tamang
	11-Namchi-Singhithang AC	Resignation of Krishna Kumari Rai
Uttar Pradesh	16-Meerapur AC	Resignation of Chandan Chauhan
	29-Kundarki AC	Resignation of Zia Ur Rehman
	56-Ghaziabad AC	Resignation of Atul Garg
	71-Khair (SC) AC	Resignation of Anoop Singh alias Anoop Pradhan Balmiki
	110-Karhal AC	Resignation of Akhilesh Yadav
	213-Sishamau AC	Disqualification of Haji Irfan Solanki
	256-Phulpur AC	Resignation of Praveen Patel
	277-Katehari AC	Resignation of Lalji Verma
	397-Majhawan AC	Resignation of Dr. Vinod Kumar Bind
Uttarakhand	07-Kedarnath AC	Death of Shailarani Rawat
West Bengal	6-Sitai (SC) AC	Resignation of Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia
	14-Madarihat (ST) AC	Resignation of Manoj Tigga
	104-Naihati AC	Resignation of Partha Bhowmick
	121-Haroa AC	Resignation of SK Nurul Islam
	236- Medinipur AC	Resignation of June Maliah
	251-Taldangra AC	Resignation of Arup Chakraborty

The voting for all bye-elections, except in Nanded PC Maharashtra and Kedarnath AC of Uttarakhand, will take place on November 13 and the counting of votes will take place on November 23. The voting for the Nanded Lok Sabha seat and Kedarnath assembly seat will take place on November 20. The counting of votes will take place on November 23.