Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: 65.28% Turnout In Padampur, 26.32% In Rampur Till 3 PM
By-elections Voting Live Updates: Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in UP, Padampur in Odisha, Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh, Kurhani in Bihar, and Sadarshahar in Rajasthan are assembly seats up for voting.
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By-elections Voting 2022 Live: Hello and welcome to the ABP Live blog, where you can discover all the latest news from the polling battlegrounds today. Voting is being held on Monday, December 5, for bypolls to six assembly seats in five states and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Bypolls to six assembly seats in five states are being held alongside the Gujarat assembly polls phase 2.
Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, Padampur in Odisha, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan, Kurhani in Bihar and Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh are the assembly seats where bypolls are being held.
Apart from the seats in Uttar Pradesh, here’s a look at the assembly constituencies going for byelections:
SARDARSHAHAR
The Sardarshahar Assembly seat in Rajasthan fell vacant after Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma passed away in October at the age of 77. The Congress’s replacement for Bhanwar Lal Sharma is his son Anil Kumar who will go up against the BJP’s Ashok Kumar, a former MLA.
The bypoll has come just a day after Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered its Rajasthan leg, with the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party threatening to disrupt it over the Sikar shootout.
Apart from the Congress and the BJP’s candidates, eight contestants are vying for the seat. They are Lalchand (Rashtriya Loktantrik Party), Sanwarmal Meghwal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Parmana Ram of Indian People’s Green Party and independents Subhash Chandra, Umesh Sahu, Prem Singh, Vijay Pal Singh Sheoran, and Surendra Singh Rajpurohit.
PADAMPUR
The death of BJD legislator Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha in October at the age of 65 necessitated the Padampur seat bypoll in Odisha. The bypoll comes right after the BJD's loss to BJP in the Dhamnagar bypoll for the first time since 2009.
BHANUPRATAPPUR
Chhattisgarh’s Bhanupratappur constituency, a seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes in the Maoist-hit Kanker district, is also going for a bypoll on Monday. The seat was left vacant when Congress MLA and deputy speaker of the assembly Manoj Singh Mandavi passed away in November.
Seven candidates have submitted nominations to contest the bypoll. The Congress has fielded Mandavi’s widow Savitri and the BJP has pitted former MLA Brahmanand Netam against her.
KURHANI
Bihar, too, will host a bypoll in the Kurhani assembly constituency, which was left vacant after the disqualification of RJD MLA Anil Kumar Sahani in October. Sahani was awarded a three-year jail term for fraudulently withdrawing funds during his stint as a Rajya Sabha Member (2010-12 and 2012-18).
Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: Voter Turnout Of 65.28% In Padampur, 26.32% In Rampur Till 3 PM
Voter turnout of 48% was recorded in Kurhani (Bihar) at 3 PM while 65.28% was recorded in Padampur (Odisha), 54.95% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 26.32% in Rampur (UP), 44.13% in Manipuri (UP) 40.20% in Khatauli and 64.86% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh), as per data shared by the Election Commission.
Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: Voter Turnout Of 46.96% In Padampur, 19.01% In Rampur Till 1 PM
Voter turnout of 37% was recorded in Kurhani (Bihar) at 1 PM while 46.96% was recorded in Padampur (Odisha), 36.68% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 19.01% in Rampur (UP), 33.20% in Khatauli and 50.83% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh), as per data shared by the Election Commission.
#ByElections2022 | 37% voter turnout in Kurhani (Bihar), 46.96% in Padampur (Odisha), 36.68% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 19.01% in Rampur (UP), 33.20% in Khatauli and 50.83% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh) recorded till 1 pm. pic.twitter.com/KTir9NvBeG
— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2022
Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: 31.27% Voter Turnout Recorded In Bhanupratappur, 11% In Rampur At 11 AM
Highest voter turnout was recorded in Chhattisgarh's Bhanupratappur at 31.27 per cent while Rampur recorded the lowest voter turnout at 11.30 per cent at 11 am, as per the latest data shared by Election Commission.
24% voter turnout was recorded in Kurhani (Bihar), 29.73% in Padampur (Odisha), and 19.87% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), and 20.70% in Khatauli.
#ByElections2022 | 24% voter turnout in Kurhani (Bihar), 29.73% in Padampur (Odisha), 19.87% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 11.30% in Rampur (UP), 20.70% in Khatauli and 31.27% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh) recorded till 11 am. pic.twitter.com/GSINICD3NN
— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2022
Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: Polling Underway In Rajasthan's Sardarshahar Assembly Seat
Polling is underway at Rajasthan's Sardarshahar Assembly constituency where bypolls are taking place after the demise of Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma following a prolonged illness.
The Congress has fielded the late Sharma's son Anil Kumar while former MLA Ashok Kumar is the BJP candidate.
Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: Voter turnout till 9 AM
11% voter turnout in Kurhani (Bihar), 8.50% in Padampur (Odisha), 5.27% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 3.97% in Rampur (UP), 6.90% in Khatauli and 9.89% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh) recorded till 9 am, as per ECI.
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