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Members of the State Legislative Assembly, the only house of State Legislature in 40 states and 5 union territories of India and the lower house of 6 states, are elected by being voted upon by all adult citizens of India enlisted in the voter list of their respective state/union territory, from a set of candidates who stand in their respective constituencies.
As of 8 February 2025, NDA have government in 19 States and 2 Union Territories. INDIA bloc have government in 8 States and 1 union Territories. Other one party ZPM , which is not part of any alliance has government in Mizoram state.
State Election Commissioners are independent persons not holding position or office in any Central or State Government organisations. [13] Sri Thakur Ram Singh, is the Chief Election Commissioner of Chhattisgarh State Election Commission. [8] [1] His period of service will be 6 years or attaining an age of 66 years whichever is earlier.
This is a list of states and union territories of India by the number of voters polled in the fifteen Lok Sabha elections between 1951 and 2009, based on data released by the Election Commission of India.
The tenure of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 3 January 2024. [2] The previous assembly elections were held in November 2018. After the election, Indian National Congress formed the state government, with Bhupesh Baghel becoming Chief Minister. [3]
The state elects members for a term of six years. 30 members are indirectly elected by the state legislators. 22 members are elected from Local Authorities Constituency, 7 from Graduates Constituency and 7 from Teachers Constituency. [1] The Governor of Maharashtra nominated up to 12 members from eminent people from various fields.
On 1 November 2000, these 16 districts were split from Madhya Pradesh to form the new state of Chhattisgarh. [5] Two new districts were added afterwards. On 1 January 2012, the Chhattisgarh government announced 9 new districts, for a total of 27.
The 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election was held on 21 October 2019 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. [1] After a 61.4% turnout in the election, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SHS) won a majority. [ 2 ]