New Delhi: The Election Commission announced on Tuesday that bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats and 30 assembly constituencies spread across various states will be held on October 30.
The counting of votes will be done on November 2 and the last date of filling nominations is 8 October.
The seats where Lok Sabha by-elections will be held are Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, and Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh.
The assembly bypolls will be held in 30 seats spread across 14 states-5 seats are in Assam, 4 are in West Bengal, 3 each are in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, 2 each are in Bihar, Karnataka, and Rajasthan, and one each is in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Nagaland and Telangana.
"The Commission has reviewed the situation related to pandemic, flood, festivals, cold conditions in certain regions, feedback from concerned States/UT and taken into consideration all facts and circumstances and it has decided to hold by-elections to fill vacancies in three Parliamentary Constituencies of UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh and 30 vacancies in Assembly constituencies of various states," the EC said in a statement, as mentioned in a PTI report.
On September 4, the EC had announced bypoll to the Bhabanipur assembly seat in West Bengal and polling for three "deferred adjourned" elections in two assembly seats of West Bengal and one of Odisha.
In West Bengal, Dinhata, Santipur, Khardaha, and Gosaba will go to bypolls.
Earlier, the by-elections were deferred in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the October polls will be held with ECI's COVID guidelines – including limited campaigning, use of sanitisers, and masks – in place.