Page 27 - Assembly Elections

Haryana Assembly elections: Nearly 25% voter turnout recorded till noon

Over 1.83 crore voters are eligible to vote that includes 85 lakh women, over one lakh service voters and 252 transgenders

Bharat Ratna for Savarkar is an essential piece of Hindutva mosaic

In its manifesto for the Maharashtra state legislature elections, the BJP has promised to confer Bharat Ratna, the highest civil award, posthumously, on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Winds have changed in favour of Cong; we will form govt: Bhupinder Hooda

Hooda addressed the people in Mehmoodpur and other villages of the constituency

Congress's Haryana manifesto promises 33% govt job quota for women

Cong releases poll manifesto; promises 33 pc quota for women in govt jobs, loan waiver for farmers

Congress names media in-charges for Haryana, Maharashtra Assembly elections

The terms of the current assembly in Maharashtra ends on November 9 and in Haryana on November 2

Assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir to be held sooner than expected?

The national chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party's membership drive, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has suddenly become extremely active

67 newly elected MLAs in Odisha Assembly facing criminal charges: Report

Out of the 67 MLAs, 49 of them having serious charges against them, such as kidnapping, murder and attempt-to-murder.

Assembly elections: MP, Rajasthan in 2018 elected fewer women than in 2013

Mizoram, a state with a literacy rate of 89.27%, and ranking second among the five states in women's employment (WPR 52.2%) has not elected any woman to the state Assembly in 2018

Twitter records 1.2 million tweets related to upcoming assembly elections

Twitter said it has developed several initiatives to support citizens in having their say in the public conversation leading up to voting day

SP riding on goondaism, image makeover a farce, alleges BJP

BJP cited examples of how Akhilesh told the people not to worry about not paying power bills

UP elections 2017: Why are party symbols like cycle so important in polls?

Conflicts over party emblems are commonplace in India, where many voters are illiterate

Demonetisation, surgical strike to be BJP's key poll plank

The staggered polls in Goa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur begin on Feb 4

Year of elections

Five states will go to the polls in the early part of the year

EC instructs states to prepare for poll-schedule announcement

While UP assembly's term expires on May 27 next, terms of 4 state assemblies end in March next

Assembly polls to be held in five states before board exams

The Election Commission will announce election dates for UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur after Dec 20

Jaitley doubtful of a Congress challenge in 2019

FM slams party, says its parliamentary obstructionism was blended with Rahul Gandhi's "rent-a-cause" approach

Left, BJP workers clash in Kannur; prohibitory orders clamped

30 injured people have been hospitalised

BJP now a pan-India party: from Kashmir to Kerala, Gujarat to Assam

Victory in Assam could help passage of GST, hope of seats in 2019 from all across India

The post-election map

Congress chastened, BJP wins, and a more federal polity

Cong rejects suggestions blaming Rahul for poll reverses

Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala dismisses query on larger role for Priyanka following electoral reverses