Assam will vote for 126 seats, Kerala for 140, Tamil Nadu for 234, West Bengal for 294, and Puducherry for 30 seats. Several states will also host by-elections. Goa’s Ponda seat, Karnataka’s Bagalkot seat, and Maharashtra’s Rahuri seat will go to the polls after the deaths of their sitting MLAs. Manipur’s Tadubi seat and Nagaland’s Koridang seat will also elect new representatives.

Local elections add to the packed calendar. Maharashtra will hold polls for 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats on December 2, with counting on December 3. Kerala will vote for its local bodies on December 9 and 11. Mizoram will elect members to the Lai Autonomous District Council on December 3. Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar Municipal Corporation will vote on December 15.

India now enters a long election phase that stretches into early 2026. Parties across the country are preparing their strategies.

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