New Delhi:
Bypolls to 64 assembly seats across 18 states will be held on October 21 and the counting of votes will be on October 24, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced. While assembly by-elections will be held on 64 assembly seats, the Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar will also have a bypoll. These assembly seats include 15 in Karnataka and 11 in Uttar Pradesh.
The 11 UP assembly seats mostly belong to MLAs who had won the Lok Sabha elections and had resigned as members of the state assembly. The Samastipur (Bihar) Lok Sabha by-election was necessitated following the death of sitting MP Ram Chandra Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party in July.
Assembly bypolls in West Bengal are not being held now as the state government had cited the Durga Puja festivities to postpone the exercise. They will also not be held in Uttarakhand now as panchayat elections are already underway and the state machinery is occupied with the exercise, CEC Sunil Arora said.
In some other seats, by-elections are not being held as respective high courts are hearing election petitions and the matters are sub judice, he added. States where assembly bypolls will be held are Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha and Puducherry (one seat each).
CHECK THE COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 64 CONSTITUENCIES
1. Arunachal Pradesh - Khonsa (West) (ST)
2. Assam - Ratabari (SC)
3. Assam - Jania
4. Assam - Rangapara
5. Assam - Sonari
6. Bihar - Kishanganj
7. Bihar - Simri Bakhtiarpur
8. Bihar - Daraunda
9. Bihar - Nathnagar
10. Bihar - Belhar
11. Chhattisgarh - Chitrakot (ST)
12. Gujarat - Tharad
13. Gujarat - Kheralu
14. Gujarat - Amraiwadi
15. Gujarat - Lunawada
16. Himachal Pradesh - Dharamshala
17. Himachal Pradesh - Pachhad (SC)
18. Karnataka - Athani
19. Karnataka - Kagwad
20. Karnataka - Gokak
21. Karnataka - Yellapur
22. Karnataka - Hirekerur
23. Karnataka - Ranibennur
24. Karnataka - Vijayanagara
25. Karnataka - Chikkaballapur
26. Karnataka - KR Pura
27. Karnataka - Yeshvanthapura
28. Karnataka - Mahalakshmi Layout
29. Karnataka - Shivajinagar
30. Karnataka - Hosakote
31. Karnataka - Krishnarajpet
32. Karnataka - Hunsur
33. Kerala - Manjeshwar
34. Kerala - Ernakulam
35. Kerala - Aroor
36. Kerala - Konni
37. Kerala - Vattiyoorkavu
38. Madhya Pradesh– Jhabua (ST)
39. Meghalaya - Shella (ST)
40. Odisha - Bijepur
41. Pudducherry - Kamraj Nagar
42. Punjab - Phagwara (SC)
43. Punjab - Mukerian
44. Punjab - Dakha
45. Punjab - Jalalabad
46. Rajasthan - Mandawa
47. Rajasthan - Khinwsar
48. Sikkim - Poklok-Kamrang
49. Sikkim - Martam-Rumtek (BL)
50. Sikkim - Gangtok (BL)
51. Tamil Nadu - Vikravandi
52. Tamil Nadu - Nanguneri
53. Telangana - Huzurnagar
54. Uttar Pradesh - Gangoh
55. Uttar Pradesh - Rampur
56. Uttar Pradesh - Iglas (SC)
57. Uttar Pradesh - Lucknow Cantt.
58. Uttar Pradesh - Govindnagar
59. Uttar Pradesh - Manikpur
60. Uttar Pradesh - Pratapgarh
61. Uttar Pradesh - Zaidpur (SC)
62. Uttar Pradesh - Jalalpur
63. Uttar Pradesh - Balha (SC)
64. Uttar Pradesh - Ghosi
