Counting across all the centres in Maharashtra and Jharkhand will begin at 8 am, an Election Commission official said. The counting of postal ballots will begin first, he added.
The counting of votes for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana began on Tuesday at 8 am.
The counting of votes for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana is scheduled to commence at 8 am on Tuesday.
Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana are likely to give a significant political message to the nation when counting of votes begins for the recently held Assembly elections in the state and the UT, early Tuesday morning.
As many as 42 counting agents assigned by the BJP for the Bardhaman Purba seat had disappeared mysteriously after they allegedly were intimidated by the Trinamul Congress last night.
For Assembly constituencies of AP, Haryana, HP, Karnataka, MP, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Telangana and Parliamentary Constituency of UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, HP, MP, the notification for the by-election will be made on 1 October
It will be mandatory for candidates and authorized representatives to produce a RT-PCR or Rapid Antigen Test report or Covid-19 vaccination completion report.
Voting took place in the state on April 6 to elect 140 legislators to the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
A moderate turnout of 57% was recorded in the by-elections held on October 21. Among the states ruled by the BJP and its allies, counting is being held for the maximum 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, followed by six in Gujarat, five in Bihar, four in Assam and two each in Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
The 105 ULBs are divided into 29 city municipalities, 53 town municipalities and 23 town panchayats.
