🇮🇳India elections

Each State Legislative Assembly in India is divided into a number of constituencies based on population and administrative boundaries. Each constituency elects one Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) to represent the people of that area.

Elections to State Legislative Assemblies are generally held every five years, unless the assembly is dissolved earlier. These elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India.

A constituency is a defined geographic area from which voters elect their representative to a legislative body such as a State Legislative Assembly or the Lok Sabha.

A by-election is an election conducted when a seat in a legislative body becomes vacant before the end of the normal term. This can occur due to resignation, death, disqualification, or other reasons affecting the sitting representative.

You can find your constituency by checking your voter ID card or using official voter search tools provided by the Election Commission of India or the Chief Electoral Officer of your state.

The current MLA of your constituency can be found through official legislative assembly websites, the Election Commission of India, or election information platforms such as BallotView that compile publicly available election data.

Past election results for constituencies across India are published on the official website of the Election Commission of India and other public platforms that maintain historical election records.

Candidate profiles may include publicly available details such as:

• Political party affiliation
• Educational qualifications
• Profession
• Election history
• Affidavit information including declared assets and liabilities

Members of Legislative Assembly are elected using the first-past-the-post system, where the candidate who receives the highest number of votes in a constituency wins the election.

All national and state elections in India are conducted and supervised by the Election Commission of India, an independent constitutional authority responsible for administering the election process.

Auxiliary polling stations are extra voting locations set up by election officials to supplement the main polling station for the same part of the electorate. They are used when too many voters are assigned to one place, to ease crowding, or for practical access (for example, an additional booth in the same building or compound).

They are regular, official polling points — not informal booths. You must vote only at the polling station and booth number printed on your voter slip or as listed on the Election Commission’s voter search; if your assignment is an auxiliary station, that is your correct place to vote.

When official statistics or BallotView show a total number of polling stations for a constituency, that count usually includes auxiliary stations as separate polling points.