ECI announced election dates in three states – know when the polling will be held

Assembly Election 2023: The Election Commission on Wednesday announced the dates for the assembly elections of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Tripura will go to polls on February 16. Voting will be held in Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27. The results of all the states will be announced on March 2. An interesting feature of these elections is that the majority mark in all the three states is 31. Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar said that the participation of women voters is high in all the three states and there is not much electoral violence here. We are committed to fair elections here.

9 thousand 125 polling stations have been set up in all the three states. Talking about rural areas, 82% more polling stations have been set up as compared to 2018. Women staff will handle 376 polling stations in all the three states.

There are 62.8 lakh voters in the three states. Of these, 31.47 lakh women voters are 97 thousand voters above the age of 80 years. There are 1.76 lakh first time voters.

Elections in 9 states this year, beginning North East

Before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, elections will be held in a total of 9 states apart from the northeastern states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland. After North East, assembly elections are likely to be held in Karnataka in April or May.

Apart from this, the term of the 40-member Mizoram Legislative Assembly also ends on December 17 this year. Whereas in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana the term will end on different dates in January 2024.

1. Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, Seats- 60, Majority- 31

Elections were held on 59 seats in Meghalaya in 2018. The Congress had won the maximum 21 seats. BJP could get only 2 seats here. The National People's Party (NPEP) got 19 seats. It formed the government together with PDF and HSPDP. He formed the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA).

The parties here are in election mode for the last three months. Congress has already released the list of 40 and NPP 58 candidates.

2. Tripura Legislative Assembly, Seats- 60, Majority- 31

Elections were held on 59 seats in the state in 2018. BJP emerged as the single largest party. Got 35 seats. The BJP had demolished the stronghold of the Left for 25 years. Earlier Biplab Dev was made the CM, but in May 2022 Manik Saha was made the Chief Minister.

CPM and Congress have joined hands to stop BJP in the upcoming elections. There is also another big party Mamta Banerjee's TMC, which can give competition to BJP.

3. Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Seats-60, Majority-31

Nagaland is governed by the National Democratic Progressive Party. Neiphiu Rio is the CM. NDPP came into existence in 2017. The NDPP then won 18 seats and the BJP 12. The two parties had forged an alliance before the elections. The government consists of NDPP, BJP NPP and JDU.

Last year, both the parties had said in a joint statement that the NDPP would contest 40 seats and the BJP together on 20 seats.