Maharashtra Legislative Council By Poll Election Results Live Voting 2017 Dates Candidates Opinion Poll
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Maharashtra Legislative Council By Poll Election Results Live Voting 2017 Dates Candidates Opinion Poll
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Maharashtra Legislative Council By Poll Election Schedule 2017
- The by-election to the Maharashtra Legislative Council seat, vacated by former chief minister Narayan Rane after he quit the Congress, will be held on December 7, according to the Election Commission of India.
- As per the election schedule announced by the EC yesterday, the result will be declared the same day after the polling.
- The vacancy in the upper house of the state legislature is from the MLA's quota
Election Schedule 2017
| Maharashtra Legislative Council Election Schedule 2017 | |
| Events | Dates |
| Notification for by-polls | November 20,2017 |
| Last date of filing nominations | November 27,2017 |
| Scrutiny of the nominations | November 28,2017 |
| Last date of withdrawal of candidature | November 30,2017 |
| Polling | December 7,2017 |
| Counting of votes | December 7,2017 |
- Rane had in September announced his resignation from the Congress amid indications that he was veering towards an innings in the ruling BJP.
- The 65-year-old Maratha leader, who was the chief minister in 1999 while in the Shiv Sena, had also resigned as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.
- After quitting the Congress, Rane formed his new political party - Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksh. Last month, he said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had invited him to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
- The BJP has 122 MLAs in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly.
- Its ally Shiv Sena has 63 members in the lower house.
- The opposition Congress and the NCP have 42 and 41 MLAs respectively.
- Besides, PWP and Bahujan Vikas Aghadi have three members each, AIMIM has two members, Rashtriya Samaj Paksh, CPI(M), SP and MNS have one member each and there are eight independents.
- The BJP enjoys the support of four independent legislators.