Ajmer to Gorakhpur: Check out the key electoral battles ahead

Assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are slated for this year-end. By March, Tripura and Meghalaya vote to elect their respective assemblies. It will be the turn of Karnataka by May. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram go to polls at the end of 2018.

These elections are likely to indicate the mood of the nation in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

But there are also interesting by-elections slated on seven Lok Sabha seats that have fallen vacant in the last few months. Usually, bypolls are won by the government in power in the respective