The Election Commission announced the poll schedule for assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand at 3.30 pm on Tuesday. According to the EC, Maharashtra will go to polls in a single phase on November 20 and the counting of votes will take place on November 23. Similarly, Jharkhand will go to the polls in two phases—on November 13 and November 20—and the votes will be counted on November 23.
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The announcement from the EC comes as the term of the Maharashtra Assembly will end on November 26, while the term of the Jharkhand Assembly will end on January 5, 2025. Maharashtra assembly has 288 seats while Jharkhand has 81 seats.
“On behalf of the Election Commission of India, we thank all the voters of Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana for strongly participating in polls. The people of Jammu and Kashmir have made the festival of democracy historic. As the world’s biggest democracy, India is setting gold standards in every election,” says Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. The CEC added that over 9.63 crore eligible voters are there in Maharashtra and over 2.6 crore are there in Jharkhand this time.
