Polls in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim to be held on April 19; check details here

As the political atmosphere heats up across several states in India voters are gearing up for Assembly Elections 2024 which is set to take place in four statesThe Election Commission of India ECI had last month announced the schedule for the Assembly Elections 2024 coinciding with the Lok Sabha electionsAssembly elections in four states ndash Odisha Sikkim Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh ndash will be conducted simultaneously Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had said during addressing a press conferenceThe polling for the state Assembly elections will begin on April 19 with Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim set to vote in the first phase of the Assembly Elections 2024 And the results of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim assembly elections will be declared on June 2This means that Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases alongside the state Assembly polls Polling for the state Assembly elections kicks off on April 19Over 97 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise as the poll body is preparing to set up 105 lakh polling stations across the countryAlso Read Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 1 Voting for first phase to be held on April 19 check full list of constituencies hereHere are all the details of the upcoming assembly elections in the four statesArunachal Pradesh and SikkimVoting for these states will initiate in the first phase on April 19 In both states the process of nomination filing will end on March 27 and March 28 is kept as the date for scrutiny of nominations The last date for withdrawal of candidature in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim is March 30The Bharatiya Janata Party BJP won 41 of the 60 seats in the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly in the 2019 election The Janata Dal United won seven seats the National Peoples Party NPP secured five the Congress four the Peoples Party of Arunachal PPA one and Independent candidates secured twoThe Sikkim Assembly holds 32 seats In the 2019 elections the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha won 17 the exact number required to form the governmentAndhra PradeshThe 175 Assembly constituencies of Andhra Pradesh will go to polls during the fourth phase of the general elections 2024 The last date of filing the election nomination is April 25 in Andhra Pradesh while the scrutiny of nominations will be conducted on April 26 The last date of withdrawal of candidature is April 29 and voters of Andhra Pradesh will vote on May 13In Andhra Pradesh the ruling YSR Congress Party led by Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy secured a massive victory with 151 out of 175 seats leaving only 23 seats for the Telugu Desam Party TDP The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party BJP failed to make any mark in the previous electionsOdishaElections in Odisha span across four phases on May 13 May 20 May 25 and June 1 For the first phase the nominations can be filed till April 25 and candidature can be withdrawn till April 29 In the second phase the dates are May 3 and May 6 while in phase three the dates are May 6 and May 9 In the last phase the candidates can file nominations till May 14 and the last date is May 17In the 2019 elections Biju Janata Dal BJD secured a comfortable victory with 112 out of 147 seats while BJP and Congress managed to secure 23 and nine seats respectively