Six seats across four Indian regions set for October 6 bypolls
Byelections will be held on October 6 in five Assembly constituencies across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, as well as Assam’s Nagaon Lok Sabha seat. The vacancies followed the resignations of elected representatives, with counting scheduled for October 9.
Byelections are scheduled for October 6 in six constituencies across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam, according to the Election Commission schedule cited by The Hindu. The contest covers five Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency. The Assembly seats are Madurantakam and Dharapuram in Tamil Nadu, Thattanchavady in Puducherry, and Rejinagar and Nandigram in West Bengal.
The parliamentary bypoll will take place in Assam’s Nagaon constituency. The vacancies arose after elected representatives resigned for different reasons. In Tamil Nadu, the seats became vacant following the resignations of Maragatham Kumaravel in Madurantakam and P.
Sathyabama in Dharapuram. In Puducherry, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy resigned from Thattanchavady while retaining the Mangalam constituency.
In West Bengal, Rejinagar was vacated by Humayun Kabir, while Nandigram became vacant after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the seat and retained Bhabanipur. In Assam, the Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll follows the resignation of Pradyut Bordoloi. The nomination process closed on September 16, and the full election process is due to be completed by October 11.
Voting will take place on October 6, with counting scheduled for October 9. The supplied material provides the constituencies and the reasons for the vacancies but does not give a complete list of candidates, campaign issues or projected turnout for all six contests.
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