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Members of the State Legislative Assembly, the only house of State Legislature in 22 states and 3 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.
Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress fielded candidates from the yadav community. 61.77% of the total 18,27,936 voters participated in the election. [4] For the first time in the country, election commission has placed candidates' photos next to their name to help voters identify the candidates.
State Election Commission consists of Chief Electoral Officer [2] and as many members and staff specified as are required by the Acts of respective State Governments. State Election Commissioners are independent persons not holding position or office in any Central or State Government organisations.
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.
In 1950, the Election Commission of India was established as a single member body. As per The Election Commissioner Amendment Act, 1989, the commission was made a multi-member body headed by a chief election commissioner and two other election commissioners, who were appointed to the commission for the first time on 16 October 1989.
2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Bhiwandi West Party Candidate Votes % ±% SP: Abdul Rashid Tahir Momin : 30,825 : 29.83 : N/A : Independent: Sainath(Bhau) Rangarao Pawar 29,134 28.19 N/A INC: Javed Gulam Mohd. Dalavi 24,998 24.19 N/A SS: Suresh Gopinath Mhatre 16,074 15.55 N/A Majority 1,691 1.64 N/A Turnout: 103,343 44.09 N/A ...
2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election: Bhiwandi East [2] Party Candidate Votes % ±% SP: Rais Shaikh: 119,687 : 62.44 : SHS: Santosh Shetty 67,672 35.30 NOTA: None of the Above: 738 0.38 Majority 52,015 27.14 Turnout: 191,691 SP gain from Swing
Bhiwandi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency came into existence on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002.