Bypolls Live Updates: Counting Of Votes In 13 States, 1 Union Territory Begins Today

Counting of votes for three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly seats across 13 states and one union territory will begin at 8 am. Of the 29 seats, the BJP held six seats and the Congress nine. The rest were with regional parties.

Counting of votes will take place today in three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly constituencies across 13 states and one union territory, where by-elections were held on October 30.

The three Lok Sabha bypolls were in Himachal Pradesh (Mandi), Madhya Pradesh (Khandwa) and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

The assembly by-elections which saw a high turnout were held in five seats in Assam, four in West Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat each is in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.

Out of the 29 Assembly seats, the BJP had won in around half a dozen constituencies earlier, the Congress had nine, while the rest were with the regional parties.