Maharashtra, Jharkhand Assembly Elections Full Schedule Announced: Check Details

Assembly Elections 2024: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the schedule for Maharashtra and Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar informed that Maharashtra will vote in one single phase on November 20 and Jharkhand elections will take place in two phases on November 13 and 20. The results will be declared on November 23.

Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024 | Complete Schedule  

• Date of Polling: November 20, Wednesday
• Number of Assembly seats in Maharashtra : 288, counting to take place in single phase. 
• Date of Counting: November 23, Saturday 

Jharkhand Assembly Election 2024 | Complete schedule

• Date of polling: November 13 and 20
• Phases: Two phase polling. First phase 43 seats and second phase 38 seats.  Total seats: 81
• Date of counting: November 23

UP, Bengal, Wayanad By Elections | Complete schedule

• UP bypolls on 9 seats: November 13
• Wayanad byelection: November 13
• Counting of votes: November 23   

Apart from Uttar Pradesh, bypolls will take place in Assam , Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Gujarat , Karnataka, Kerala , Madhya Pradesh , Maharashtra , Meghalaya , Punjab , Rajasthan , Sikkim, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. A total of 48 Assembly constituencies and two Parliamentary constituencies will go for polls. 

"There are 9.63 crore eligible voters in Maharashtra , while the number of eligible voters in Jharkhand is 2.6 crore," Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said at a press conference here.

Bypolls will also be held in 48 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats, the CEC said Bye-elections to 47 assembly seats and the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, vacated by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi , will be held on November 13.

Bypolls to the Kedarnath assembly seat in Uttarakhand and the Nanded Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra will be held on November 20. Bypolls to the Basirhat Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal and Milkipur in Uttar Pradesh were not announced as election petitions are pending for the two seats.

Kumar said elections will be held in both the states on Wednesdays to address the problem of urban apathy.

The BJP is keen to retain power in Maharashtra along with allies Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the NCP led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar .

The BJP led Mahayuti alliance is facing a challenge from the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition of the Congress -NCPSP-Shiv SenaUBT, which hopes to repeat its performance in the Lok Sabha elections. The opposition MVA alliance won 31 of the 48 seats in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha elections.

In Jharkhand , the Congress is playing second fiddle to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, while the BJP is looking to make a comeback.

With inputs from PTI