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2 min read30 Dec 2024

FAQs in Assembly Elections 2024

Voting for all 288 seats of the Maharashtra legislative assembly will be held in a single phase on November 20.

The votes will be counted on November 23.

The votes will be counted for Jharkhand Assembly polls on November 23.

Voting for all 81 seats of the Jharkhand legislative assembly will be held in two phases – November 13 and November 20. The first phase will see voting for 43 seats while 38 remaining seats will vote in the second and last phase.

A party or an alliance needs to have at least 145 MLAs to form government in Maharashtra.

Out of 288, 234 seats in Maharashtra are general category. 25 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs) and 29 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs).

Maharashtra has 9.63 crore eligible voters. This includes 4.97 crore male voters and 4.66 crores female voters. There are 1.85 crore young voters (age 18-29).

There are 20.93 lakh first-time voters (age 18-19) in Maharashtra.

Maharashtra has 1,00,186 polling stations spread across 52,789 locations. This includes 42,604 urban polling booths and 57,582 rural polling booths. 299 polling booths are managed by Persons with Disabilities (PwD). 388 polling booths managed completely by women – called pink polling booths.

As many as 4,140 candidates are in the fray for 288 Maharashtra assembly seats voting on November 20.

Eknath Shinde, Kedar Dighe, Devendra Fadnavis, Praful Gudadhe, Ajit Pawar, Yugendra Pawar, Milind Deora, Aaditya Thackeray, Zeeshan Siddique, Varun Sardesai, Amit Thackeray

Sharad Pawar, Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray, Eknath Shinde, Ajit Pawar, Nana Patole, Raj Thackeray

A party or an alliance needs to have at least 41 MLAs to form a government in Jharkhand.

Jharkhand has 2.6 crore eligible voters. Among these, 1.31 crore are male voters and 1.29 crore are females.

The prominent candidates in the first phase include former Chief Minister Champai Soren who is contesting for the first time as a BJP candidate (Saraikela), Odisha governor and former CM Raghubar Das daughter-in-law Purnima Das Sahu (Jamshedpur East) and Saryu Roy is contesting as Janata Dal -(United) candidate (Jamshedpur West).

The prominent candidates are in second phase in which the fate of Chief Minister Hemant Soren (Barhait), his wife Kalapana Soren (Gandey), his brother Basant Soren (Dumka), BJP state president Babulal Marandi (Dhanwar), Amar Kumar Bauri (Chandankiyari), Shibu Soren daughter-in-law Sita Soren (Jamtara) and AJSU president Sudhesh Mahato (Silli) will be decided.

Hemant Soren, Babulal Marandi, Himanta Biswa Sarma , Champai Soren, Kalpana Soren

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