Counting Begins today
The results of the Tripura assembly elections, along with those of Meghalaya and Nagaland, will announce today. The Bharatiya Janata Party is hoping to strengthen its hold in Tripur. Most exit polls predicted it would win in 2018, a Left-leaning stronghold that the party had previously taken over.
Tripura is one of these three states that have the most significant potential for national impact since the Left and the Congress, longtime foes, have united in confronting the BJP in the election for the state’s 60-member assembly.
Around 8 am, the counting of votes for Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland states will start. On March 2nd, result trends will begin at 8 am, according to a notice on the Election Commission of India’s website. EVMs will be counted after postal ballots, which will be picked up for counting first. The election panel’s official website will be updated with the results.
Tripura Elections
Tripura conducted its three-cornered fight in the election polls on 23 February, with the CPI(M)-Congress combine and the Tipra Motha challenging the incumbent’s BJP’s bid to retain power.
Voting for the 60 Assembly seats of Tripura has already begun. The fate of 259 candidates hangs in the balance. The counting of votes will start from 8a.m today i.e, on March 2.
Meghalaya Elections
Polling began in 59 of 60 assembly constituencies in Meghalaya at 7 am on 27 February as 21.6 lakh voters are eligible to seal the electoral fate of 369 candidates, with the ruling National People’s Party fighting to retain power and the BJP, Trinamool Congress, and other regional parties vying to bring about a change in the government.
Voting is underway at 3,419 polling stations, of which 640 have been categorized as ‘vulnerable’ and 323 as ‘critical’, Chief Electoral Officer F R Kharkongor said.
Polling will continue till 4 pm.
Thirty-six of the 369 candidates are women, with the largest number of 10 women candidates being put up by Congress. Polling in the Sohiong assembly constituency has been adjourned due to the death of one of the candidates.
Nagaland Elections
Voting for the Nagaland Assembly polls began at 7 am on 27 February, with over 13 lakh electors set to decide the electoral fate of 183 candidates, officials said. The nominees are contesting in 59 out of 60 seats, as the Akuluto seat in Zunheboto district was won uncontested by BJP nominee and sitting MLA Kazheto Kinimi.
Polling continued in Nagaland till 4 pm, while the counting of votes is today i.e, on March 2. The ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the BJP are contesting the polls on a 40:20 seat-sharing basis. The Congress, which ruled the state till 2003 and does not have any member in the current House, has fielded 23 aspirants.
