The counting of votes for the bypoll to Sardarshahar assembly seat in Rajasthan’s Churu district began on Thursday morning, an official said.
The counting of votes began at 8 am, the official said.
The constituency recorded 72.09 per cent polling on polling day on Monday.
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A total of 2,89,843 voters were eligible to exercise their franchise in the by-election necessitated by the demise of Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma, who died on October 9 after a prolonged illness.
Polling was held in all the 295 booths of the assembly constituency amid tight security arrangements.
The Congress has fielded Sharma’s son Anil Kumar while former MLA Ashok Kumar is the BJP candidate.
Eight other candidates are in the fray: Lalchand of Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP), Sanwarmal Meghwal of Communist Party of India. India (Marxist), Parmana Ram of the Indian People’s Green Party, and Independent candidates Subhash Chandra, Vijay Pal Singh Sheoran, Umesh Sahu, Prem Singh, and Surendra Singh Rajpurohit.
In the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, the Congress currently has 107 MLAs, the BJP 71, the RLP three, the CPI(M) and the Indian Tribal Party two each, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) one and 13 independents.
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