Bypolls to five assembly seats and the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat were held on October 6.
Madurantakam in Tamil Nadu recorded the highest turnout at 85.99%.
Thattanchavadi in Puducherry recorded 80.81% and Dharapuram in Tamil Nadu 80.31%.
Nagaon in Assam recorded around 76% by 5 pm.
Counting is scheduled for October 9.
Bypolls to five assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat were held on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam.
In West Bengal, the seats were Nandigram and Rejinagar.
In Tamil Nadu, the seats were Madurantakam and Dharapuram, and in Puducherry the seat was Thattanchavadi.
In Assam, the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat went to the polls.
Counting of votes is scheduled for October 9, 2026, according to ETV Bharat.
By 1 pm, turnout was 60.32% in Nandigram, 56.43% in Rejinagar, 56.09% in Dharapuram, 56.31% in Thattanchavadi and 55.19% in Madurantakam, according to Election Commission data.
By 5 pm, Madurantakam led with 83.86%, followed by Nandigram at 79.39%, Thattanchavadi at 78.83%, Dharapuram at 78.53% and Rejinagar at 78.42%.
At the close of polling, Madurantakam recorded 85.99%, Thattanchavadi 80.81% and Dharapuram 80.31%, according to ETV Bharat.
Nagaon recorded around 76% turnout by 5 pm, with the final figure expected to rise as voters already in queues were allowed to vote.
Nagaon has 19.05 lakh registered electors and 15 candidates in the fray.
The main contest in Nagaon is between BJP’s Debashish Sharma, Congress’s Sibamoni Bora and AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal.
The by-election was needed after Pradyut Bordoloi resigned the seat and went on to win the Dispur assembly seat on a BJP ticket.
In Nandigram, BJP’s Hasirani Rath faced Congress’s Milan Pradhan, and in Rejinagar the AJUP’s Humayun Kabir was defending the seat.
In Tamil Nadu, the contest was triangular between TVK, the DMK and the AIADMK.
Voting machine in India (representative image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
