New Delhi: Assembly elections for Tripura will take place on February 16 and those for Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27, the Election Commission has announced.
The results of three states in the northeast will be counted on March 2.
Schedule for GE to the Legislative Assemblies of Meghalaya, Nagaland & Tripura.#AssemblyElections2023 #ECI pic.twitter.com/nZLJtADBMz
— Election Commission of India #SVEEP (@ECISVEEP) January 18, 2023
The three states assemblies all have 60 seats each.
In Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party is in power. BJP has 34 MLAs in the assembly, while its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura has five. The opposition Congress has one MLA and CPI(M) has 15 legislators, while five seats are vacant. Last year, as many as seven MLAs of the ruling coalition quit.
In Nagaland and Meghalaya, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and the National People’s Party are in power.
The EC has also announced the schedule for bypolls in one assembly seat each in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, two assembly seats in Maharashtra and a Lok Sabha seat in Lakshadweep. These bypolls will all take place on February 27 and results will be counted on March 2.