5 States Assembly Election 2023 Live: I humbly accept the mandate, says Rahul Gandhi
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Counting of votes for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections underway, at a centre in Jabalpur
CHENNAI: The votes for the legislative assemblies of four states -- Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana -- are being counted amid tight security arrangements, in the final stretch of the battle billed as the semifinal before the mega final in 2024.
However, the counting of votes in Mizoram, which also went to polls along with four other states last month, has been pushed back to December 4, Monday, the Election Commission (EC) informed earlier.
The counting of votes at designated centres began at 8 am on Sunday.
Check the detailed result of 5 State Assembly polls here
The polling in five states, straddling the north, east and southern parts of the country, is tipped to set the course of the political headwinds going into the Lok Sabha elections next year.
Live Updates
- 3 Dec 2023 11:57 AM IST
BJP crosses the halfway mark in Chhattisgarh; leads on 50 seats as official ECI trends; Congress - 38
- 3 Dec 2023 11:50 AM IST
Hyderabad, Telangana: Congress MP Uttam Kumar Reddy says, "Congress will form the government. There is a special place for the Gandhi family in the hearts of the Telangana people. We made a mistake in the 2014 and 2018 elections. This time, we corrected ourselves, and we are on the way to victory. Second is the incompetence, arrogance, the corruption of the BRS government..."
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— ANI (@ANI) December 3, 2023 - 3 Dec 2023 11:49 AM IST
Bhopal: Chief Election Officer Madhya Pradesh Anupam Rajan says, "At each of the 52 districts, the counting of votes started on time... Counting is going on peacefully at every place. Many rounds have been done. We are displaying the results at many places, like malls, platforms of stations, and wherever footfall is higher... The technical snag is also not there much, at some places there are issues with the server, but we will soon resolve them... As we have increased the number of tables for both the EVM and postal ballot, I believe that after four hours since the vote counting started, we will start getting results..."
- 3 Dec 2023 11:42 AM IST
Rajasthan: Congress MP Pramod Tiwari says, "There will be a change and Congress will win the elections..."
- 3 Dec 2023 11:40 AM IST
Congress crosses the halfway mark in Telangana; leads on 61 seats in official trends as per ECI.
- BRS - 36
- BJP - 10
- AIMIM - 1
- CPI - 1
- 3 Dec 2023 11:37 AM IST
On the election results of four states, Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav says, "According to the initial trends, BJP is leading in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and Congress is forming the government in Telangana. There is a close contest in Chhattisgarh. Therefore, I feel it is too early to say who is winning. The picture will be clear by 1 pm...We hope that Congress will win the elections...''
- 3 Dec 2023 11:26 AM IST
Visuals outside Revanth Reddy's residence in Hyderabad as trends show Congress leading in Telangana Assembly elections 2023.
- 3 Dec 2023 11:19 AM IST
EC trends show BJP leading in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan; Congress ahead in Telangana
- 3 Dec 2023 11:17 AM IST
BJP Chhattisgarh in-charge Nitin Nabin on state election results. "BJP will form the government with a clear majority in Chhattisgarh. The Congress govt did the work of looting the people of the state, and the people have replied to this today."
