Chhattisgarh elections 2023 highlights: BJP leads on 54 seats, Cong on 35
Chhattisgarh Assembly polls 2023 results: Of the 90 Assembly seats in the state, 51 fall in the general category, 10 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 29 for Scheduled Tribes
Chhattisgarh Assembly election results LIVE: In a keenly contested battle, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 38 seats and was leading on 28 seats, followed by Congress winning 35 seats and leading on 7, according to Election Commission of India (ECI) data. In the 2018 Assembly elections, the Congress won 68 out of the 90 Assembly seats in the state.
Earlier, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the Congress party will retain power as it will win more than 75 seats in the Assembly elections this year. Baghel said that there is no possibility of anti-incumbency. He said, "Why would there be? We have worked for five years, during Covid-19 and after. Be it farmers, labourers, tribals, traders or industrialists, we supported everyone during the pandemic... We have schemes for everyone. There is no one who can claim that they lost anything in five years".
Of the 90 Assembly seats in the state, 51 fall in the general category, 10 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 29 for Scheduled Tribes. More than 6,400 voters in Chhattisgarh have decided to avail the Election Commission of India's vote-from-home facility introduced for people above 80 years of age and persons with more than 40 per cent disability in the state assembly elections.
The counting of votes for the Mizoram assembly polls is scheduled for Monday.
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