assembly elections

The Election Commission on Friday said that the exit polls can be telecast after 5-30 pm on March 9, after elections to one seat each in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are over. The decision to postpone the exit poll has been taken in…

Voting is under way in 69 Assembly constituencies out of 70 seats of Uttarakhand. Polling started at 07 AM. and will continue till five in the evening. Poll officials have instructed that the voters who will be in queue till 5 PM will be…

There has been news reports published in some newspapers quoting that ECI to deploy Special Team for the first time in West Bengal, which is misinterpretative and misrepresentative of the fact and instructions issued by the Commission. The…

Patna, Nov 8: More than nine lakh voters in Bihar chose not to vote for any candidate in the state assembly polls and pressed the "None of the Above" (NOTA) button on the electronic voting machines (EVMs). According to statistics…

New Delhi/Patna, Nov 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday telephoned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and congratulated him on the victory of his Grand Alliance in the assembly elections. Modi tweeted that he had “a telephonic…

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Janata Dal-United on Sunday expressed hope that it will form the next government in Bihar. "Be it Patna region, Bhagalpur or any other region, we will soon pick up leads and results would be in our favour as the…

New Delhi, Nov 8: Two hours into counting of votes on Bihar, different TV channels showed different leads of the vote count in Bihar on Sunday, triggering confusion. There was also confusion with the spokespersons of the BJP as well as…

New Delhi, Nov 8: The Grand Alliance was poised to win the battle for the Bihar assembly, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav said on Sunday. “We will get about 150 seats,” Yadav told the media as officials counted the votes…

Patna, Nov 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was no doubt the BJP's face in the Bihar battle, but its micro management lay with BJP president Amit Shah and the IT cell in the Prime Minister's Office, with dedicated party activists promised…

Patna, Nov 5: Around 59.46% percent of the 1.55 crore electorate voted till on Thursday in the fifth and final round of the staggered assembly elections in Bihar, officials said. Eight voters were injured when central paramilitary forces…