Live: Vote tallying set to commence for five Assembly segments and one Lok Sabha seat

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 7, 2026) declined to disturb a Calcutta High Court order granting temporary relief on bail to Milan Pradhan, the Congress nominee for the Nandigram Assembly by-election, a day after voting concluded. The Bench avoided making remarks on the substance of the charges framed against Pradhan. It noted that the state government remains at liberty to press all its arguments before the competent court should he seek regular bail or an extension of his interim protection. Click here to read more on this..

Close to 76% of approximately 19.05 lakh registered voters exercised their franchise in Tuesday's (October 6, 2026) by-election for the Nagaon parliamentary seat in central Assam. The vacancy arose when Pradyut Bordoloi, who retained the constituency for a consecutive term in 2024, parted ways with the Congress to successfully contest the Dispur Assembly seat as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. Apart from a brief scuffle triggered by allegations of vote tampering at a booth situated in Nagaon district's Juria, voting remained largely untroubled. Click here to read more on this...

The DMK approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday (October 6, 2026), seeking punitive steps against Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s (TVK) Dharapuram Assembly nominee P. Sathyabama for allegedly suppressing campaign spending figures and breaching the Model Code of Conduct. Click below to read more on this: DMK urges ECI to penalize TVK Dharapuram contender over undisclosed campaign finances and MCC infractions amid claims linked to a viral video.

Tallying of ballots across Nandigram and Rejinagar Assembly segments is slated to commence at 8 a.m., offering an early glimpse into West Bengal's political landscape following the BJP ending the TMC's 15-year rule. While the two contests do not serve as an outright referendum on the four-month-old BJP dispensation, the numbers will be scrutinized closely to gauge the party's electoral grip after transitioning into power, alongside how fragmented opposition forces are currently positioned. Out of roughly 5.24 lakh registered voters across the two seats, nearly 80% turned out, with Nandigram seeing an 80.89% voting rate and Rejinagar clocking 80.08%, as per the Election Commission.

Tabulation of votes for the Dharapuram and Madurantakam Assembly by-elections in Tamil Nadu is set to proceed under a stringent three-layer security cordon. These pivotal contests, staged after the TVK assumed office in May, are widely regarded as a test of the ruling front's standing, whereas the opposition AIADMK aims to claw back the constituencies it conceded during the April state elections. Counting centres have been established at LRG Government Arts and Science College, Dharapuram (Tiruppur district) and the Integrated Social Development Training Centre in Aathur, Chengalpattu district (for Madurantakam). According to official sources, counting kicks off at 8 am, starting with the processing of postal ballots before officials open the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).