Assembly elections are to be held in many states in the year 2023 in India. Elections are due this year in the major states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana, apart from the North-Eastern states.
Nagaland, the northeastern state where assembly elections are to be held Tripura and Meghalaya First of all, assembly elections are going to be held in February-March.
Many assembly elections to be held in 2023 are being seen as semi-finals before the Lok Sabha elections to be held in 2024.
Elections in the three states will be held simultaneously, followed by elections in Karnataka, news agency PTI quoted people familiar with the Election Commission of India as saying.
A look at the political scenario of these states
while BJP government in TripuraThe Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party is in power in Nagaland.
The National People’s Party, the only party in the North-East to be recognized as a national party, runs the government in Meghalaya.
The term of the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ends on May 24. Elections to form a new assembly in the BJP-ruled state are likely to be held in late April or early May.
Possible dates of assembly elections
A series of assembly elections will be held on different dates in December this year and January 2024, with the legislatures of Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana expiring in the latter part of 2023.
while tenure 40 member Mizoram Assembly expiring on December 17, the terms of the Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh legislatures end on January 3 and January 6, 2024, respectively.
The terms of the Rajasthan and Telangana Assemblies expire on January 14 and January 16, 2024, respectively.
Simultaneous elections in these five states cannot be ruled out at this stage.
Apart from the nine scheduled elections, the possibility of assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir also being held this year cannot be ruled out.
On 9 December, sources had said that elections could be held in the summer of 2023 after the winter conditions in Jammu and Kashmir subside and the timing would depend on the security scenario.
The final electoral rolls of Jammu and Kashmir were released on November 25 last year, paving the way for elections, for the first time after the abrogation of provisions of Article 370 and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into union territories in 2019.
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