Assembly Polls 2012

• UP elections: On Delhi's edge, BSP holds sway

  The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) may have lost power in Uttar Pradesh but it kept in sway in areas bordering the national capital, winning six of the 11 assembly seats in the districts of Ghaziabad, Gautambudh Nagar and Panchsheel Nagar (Hapur). Out of the rest, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance won two each and one...

• Election result: Samajwadi Party wins by a landslide

  If all trends at this late stage of counting will turn into results, the Samajwadi Party, with 216 seats, will have the happy statistic of having delivered the best performance in UP in two decades. That honour was held by Mayawati for her 2007 performance when she won 206, the first to win a majority in the state since 1991.

• Uttarakhand election results: Majority eludes Congress, BJP; smaller parties hold key

  In an extremely close finish, the Congress ended with 31 seats, just one ahead of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly.

• Full transcript: Harsimrat Kaur Badal's interview to NDTV

  Ahead of verdict, NDTV's Ketki Angre caught up with the Badal 'bahu'.

• UP, Goa join Punjab, Uttarakhand to break voter turnout records

  A highest ever voter turnout marked the Assembly elections in five states which ended today with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking all previous records.

• UP polls: State records 62 per cent voting in final phase

  Voting in the seven-phased Assembly elections in the politically sensitive state of Uttar Pradesh was at all time high recording an overall turnout of around 60 per cent with the last phase today registering 62 per cent polling.

• Goa: With 81 per cent polling, state records highest voter turnout ever

  BJP's Goa desk in-charge, Aarti Mehra, said the people coming out in huge numbers meant that they wanted a change.

• Political leaders in Punjab gear up as poll result date nears

  Having taken time off after the date of polling on January 30, Punjab politicians, some of whom had even taken a break abroad, are now back in the state and eagerly waiting for the results, to be declared on Tuesday, with bated breath.

• Goa polls: Over 42 per cent turnout till noon

  Voting began this morning in Goa to elect a new 40-member Assembly amidst tight security. Around 42 per cent of the voters turned up till noon on Saturday. The polling started at 7 am.

• Goa assembly polls - Facts at a glance

  The Goa assembly elections are to be held on Saturday.

• UP polls: 59 per cent turnout registered in fifth phase

  Uttar Pradesh recorded 59 per cent polling at the end of the fifth phase of assembly elections, covering 49 seats spread over 13 districts, including Bundelkhand region.

• UP polls: 57 per cent turnout in fourth phase

  A turnout of 57 per cent was today recorded in an incident-free fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls covering Rae Bareli and Amethi, strongholds of Nehru-Gandhi family, and part of backward Bundelkhand region whose development Rahul Gandhi has espoused.

• Why Narendra Modi has been missing in UP polls

  As campaign for Phase IV inches to a close today- there are fears in the party that- that Modi may skip UP totally.

• Uttar Pradesh gears up for second phase of polls tomorrow

  Polling for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 59 seats in 10 districts would be held tomorrow. This will decide the fate of two state presidents, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers.

• Goa polls: Congress in tailspin over dissidence

  In a move to placate the large-scale dissidence in the party ahead of March 3 Goa Assembly polls, Congress poll managers are pulling all stops to placate the dissenters who have raised the banner of revolt after being denied tickets.