In total, November 10 is the counting day for the by-elections that are held on 58 seats across 11 states of the country, including Madhya Pradesh
According to the Election Commission Covid-19 guidelines to ensure social distancing and avoid crowding, only the candidate, his poll agent and the counting agent are allowed inside the counting hall. The counting will begin at 8 AM sharp.
While in majority by-elections for the state assembly is being held, meanwhile, counting of votes will be held in Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat by-polls in Bihar, where the assembly election results will also be out on Tuesday.
The byelection had been necessitated due to the death of JD(U) MP Baidyanath Mahto.
With high stakes for both the BJP and Congress, the by-elections can be termed as the litmus test for the parties.
In Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP needs at least eight more MLAs for a simple majority in the MP Assembly, the Congress will be hoping to regain its turf as it had sitting MLAs in 27 seats out of 28 in the state where by-polls were held.
The Congress had sitting MLAs in 42 seats out of 58, while the BJP had seven. The saffron party is fielding over 30 candidates who had won from the Congress ticket but switched sides and resigned, necessitating the bypolls.
Counting of votes will be held in eight seats in Gujarat, four seats in Manipur, and one seat in Haryana, all of which were with the Congress; one seat in Chhattisgarh which was with Ajit Jogi's Janata Congress; two seats in Jharkhand which were held by the Congress and its ally JMM; two seats in Karnataka which were with Congress and the JD(S).
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Moderate to high turnout was recorded in the byelections held amid extensive precautionary measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Voting in all the seats took place on November 3 except in Manipur, where it was held on November 7.
MADHYA PRADESH: With by-elections on 28 assembly seats, counting will be held in 19 districts. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, a total of 70.27 percent voter turnout was recorded during the by-polls were contested by 355 candidates, including 12 ministers.
UTTAR PRADESH: In Uttar Pradesh, by-elections were held on 7 assembly seats. As many as 88 candidates contested in the elections.
GUJARAT: A total of 60.75 percent voter turnout was recorded in the bypolls held across 8 constituencies of the state assembly.
NAGALAND: The bypolls to two assembly seats - Southern Angami-I in Kohima and Pungro-Kiphire in Kiphire district were necessitated following the deaths of the sitting legislators Vikho-o Yhoshu and T Torechu. In total, 8 candidates have tried their luck in the by-polls.
ODISHA: The state had come up for by-elections on 2 assembly seats in Balasore and in Tirtol.
MANIPUR: The state held by-elections for 4 assembly seats. A record 91.54 percent of the total 1.35 lakh voters exercised their franchise in by-elections to four assembly seats in Manipur on November 7.
CHHATTISGARH: The state is up for by-elections for a single seat death of sitting Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) MLA and former CM Ajit Jogi in May this year.
TELANGANA: The bypolls were necessitated due to the death of sitting TRS MLA Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy in August this year. His widow Solipeta Sujatha is the ruling party's choice.
The Dubbak Assembly constituency is witnessing a three-cornered contest involving the ruling TRS and opposition BJP and Congress.
HARYANA: Meanwhile in Harayana 14 candidates, including Olympian wrestler and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Yogeshwar Dutt, in the fray in the Baroda seat. The seat had fallen vacant in April following the death of Krishan Hooda, who had won it consecutively thrice in 2009, 2014 and 2019 assembly polls.
KARNATAKA: The death of Sira JD(S) MLA B Satyanarayana in August and the resignation of RR Nagar Congress MLA Munirathna from the assembly last year led to the bypolls.
JHARKHAND: The state is witnessing by-elections on the Chief Minister of the state Hemant Soren's home turf Dumka is seeing a contest between his younger brother Basant Soren and former cabinet minister Lois Marandi of the BJP.