The Election Commission on Monday announced bypolls to seven vacant assembly seats in six states to be held on November 3.
Bypolls will be held on Adampur of Haryana, Munugode of Telangana, two seats of Bihar, Mokama and Gopalganj, Andheri (East) of Maharashtra, Gola Gorakhnath of Uttar Pradesh, and Dhamnagar of Odisha.
The notification for the bypolls will be issued on October 7, said the EC. According to the poll panel statement, October 14 is the last date to submit nominations. Candidates can withdraw their nomination on or before October 17.
The counting of votes will take place on November 6, the poll panel said in a statement.
The bypolls were announced as many seats fell vacant. Anant Kumar Singh of the Rashriya Janata Dal (RJD), the then MLA from Mokama, was disqualified in July after his conviction in a case. While Gopalganj seat fell vacant after the demise of BJP's Subhash Singh in August.
The Andheri East, Gola Gokarnnath and Dhamnagar constituencies too fell vacant due to the demise of their respective legislators: the Shiv Sena's Ramesh Latke and BJP's Arvind Giri and Bishnu Sethi.
The resignation of Kuldeep Bishnoi in Adampur and K Rajagopal Reddy in Munugode segments led to the polls in Haryana and Telangana respectively.
