Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | PM Modi urges youth and women in Kerala to register their votes

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Voting begins for Assam's 126 assembly seats

Polling for all 126 Assam assembly constituencies began on Thursday to decide the electoral fate of 722 candidates, officials said.

In the high-stakes election, the ruling BJP is aiming for a third consecutive term in office, while the Congress seeks to wrest power after being ousted in 2016. Polling, being held in a single phase, began at 7 am and will conclude at 5 pm.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Vote for change; polls about eradicating corruption, hatred: Rahul Gandhi to people of Assam

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to the people of the state on Wednesday to vote for change, asserting that the polls are not just about changing the government but for eradicating violence, corruption and hatred.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Union Minister & NDA candidate from Kanjirappally, George Kurian casts his vote

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | 'People are in favour of LDF, we will get good majority,' says P A Mohamed Riyas

State Minister and LDF candidate from Beypore Assembly Constituency, P A Mohamed Riyas said, "We had a record number of development projects. Every month, the LDF government gives a pension, and there is also a new project that is a pension for women and everything, good roads, good government schools, and good government hospitals. People are in favour of LDF. We will get a good majority."

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | A robot, Nila welcomes voters arriving at VOC Govt School to exercise their franchise

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | We will come back with more than 100 seats: V D Satheesan

"My request to all the people of Kerala is that they have to participate in this democratic process. This is their fundamental right and they have to exercise their right. We will come back with more than 100 seats. UDF camp is very hopeful that we will get a wonderful margin, bigger than the 2001 margin," he said.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Polling under way in Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan casts his vote in Kannur

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Amid tight security, voting begins across Puducherry, in its enclaves including Karaikal

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Kerala BJP president and candidate from Nemom, Rajeev Chandrasekhar casts his vote at polling station in Thiruvananthapuram

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | This is a very important day for Kerala. BJP has done solidly well: Suresh Gopi

'This is a very important day for Kerala. The BJP has done solidly well. They have reached the last grain of the democratic campaign engineering. All those areas they have reached. The last bit they have touched. We can only wait for results. You know very well what the change is before and after," Gopi said.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | The participation of voters shows that the democratic process is very positive: K N Balagopal

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Change is palpable in Assam, says Kharge as he urges voters to defeat 'politics of division'

On the polling day in Assam, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday urged people to together defeat the "politics of division, exclusion and apathy" with the power of their vote.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Health check-up facilities have been arranged at polling station in Assam's Kamrup

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | 'Day to determine your rights': Jharkhand CM appeals to people of Assam to vote

Appealing to the people of Assam to cast their votes, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren on Thursday said it was a day to determine their rights, their dignity, and their future.

Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is contesting on 16 seats in Assam's 126-member assembly.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Prominent leaders, candidates arrive early at polling booths in Kerala

Prominent personalities and candidates reached polling booths even before the voting process commenced across Kerala on Thursday morning. Over 2.71 crore voters are set to exercise their franchise to elect a new government in the state.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Everyone must exercise their right to vote, regardless of whether they like or dislike politics: Actor and screenwriter Renji Panicker

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | CM Sarma urges all to cast vote, take state to new height

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday appealed to all voters to exercise their franchise in the Assembly polls and take the state to new heights.

Polling for all 126 Assam assembly constituencies began at 7 am to decide the electoral fate of 722 candidates.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | 17.87% voter turnout recorded at 9 am in Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Visuals from Jalukbari in Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Gaurav Gogoi urges people to vote in large numbers to secure their future

"Today, in the interest of building a new Assam, in the interest of securing our present and future, it is essential that we vote with our conscience. I wish everyone who came out to vote for the first time all the best. Jai Aai Assam," Gogoi said.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Over 16% voter turnout recorded till 9 am in Kerala

Polling in the Kerala Assembly elections saw a turnout of over 16 per cent after the first two hours of voting on Thursday.

According to Election Commission (EC) figures, polling till 9 am recorded a turnout of 16.23 per cent with the highest being in Ernakulam district with 17.8 per cent.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Assam records nearly 18% voter turnout in first two hours of assembly polls

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Pramod Boro, Chief of UPPL at his constituency Tamulpur in Bodoland region in Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | 'Vote with conscience to secure Assam's present & future': Gaurav Gogoi

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Congress leader Shama Mohammad casts her vote

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | BJP president Nabin urges people of Assam, Kerala and Puducherry to vote in large numbers

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Visuals from Kerala

Kerala BJP President Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

Mohanlal casts vote in Trivandrum.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan casts his vote.

Congress MLA K Babu, left, and actor and UDF candidate from Palakkad constituency Ramesh Pisharody show their ink-marked fingers after casting votes.

BJP leader and NDA candidate from Kazhakkootam constituency V Muraleedharan.

Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly V D Satheesan, his wife Lakshmipriya and daughter Unnimaya show their ink-marked fingers after casting votes.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Assam records 38.92% voter turnout at 11 am; Kerala 33.28%, Puducherry 37.06%

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Powerful, fearless, new Assam to emerge after polls: Gaurav Gogoi after casting vote

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | An old lady supported by well-wishers coming out of the All Women managed polling station in Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Zubeen Garg's wife, sister cast votes; urge Assam people to elect for govt of choice

Musician Zubeen Garg's wife and sister cast their votes in the Assam Assembly polls on Thursday and urged people to elect a government of their choice while hoping for expeditious delivery of justice in the death of the popular singer.

Garima Saikia Garg, who was recently hospitalised, was accompanied by her sister-in-law Palme Borthakur as they voted in Dispur constituency in Guwahati.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | People voting in Assam to save democracy from fascist govt, claims Akhil Gogoi

Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi claimed that the people of Assam were voting to save democracy from the "fascist BJP government".

Gogoi, who is seeking re-election from the Sibsagar seat, claimed people of the state were turning up at polling booths in large numbers to change the government.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Voter turnout at 1 pm: Assam 59.63%, Kerala 49.70%, Puducherry 56.83%

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Kelkar, casts his vote in Thiruvananthapuram

"Looking at the turnout so far, we are expecting it to cross 90 per cent," he said.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Kerala polls: Congress MP K Sudhakaran casts his vote in Kannur

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Assam Jatiya Parishad says BJP workers attacked Lurinjyoti Gogoi at Khowang during polling

Lurinjyoti Gogoi is a candidate in Khowang.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | A robot welcomes voters arriving at VOC Govt School to exercise their franchise

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Assam crosses 75% voter turnout

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Members of tribal communities exercise their voting in Kerala

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | "All 3173 booths in Thiruvananthapuram friendly for specially-abled people", says Collector Anu Kumari

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Gaurav Gogoi has tea with his opponent Hitendra Nath Goswami in Jorhat, Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Puducherry Congress State President V. Vaithilingam, casts his vote.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | Assam Congress files complaint on Suren Daimari, Candidate from Udalguri Assembly Constituency

We have filed a complaint against Suren Daimari, Candidate from Udalguri Assembly Constituency, who gave statements against the party and resigned. We want an FIR to be registered against him...We always supported him, but the allegations being levelled by him against us are not true," said General Secretary of the Assam Congress Ramanna Baruah.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates | BJP candidate from Aluva MA Brahmaraj alleges that he was denied entry into a polling booth

He has lodged a complaint with the District Collector.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Election Commission presented first-time voters with a sapling in Puducherry

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Assam voter turnout closes 90%, Kerala crosses 75%

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Vellappally Natesan, General Secretary of SNDP, along with his wife Preethi Natesan, cast their vote in Kerala

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Congress candidate from Nazira constituency, Debabrata Saikia stands in queue to cast vote in Assam

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Assam BJP state president Dilip Saikia casts his vote in Nalbari

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | EVMs are getting sealed at SNDP Auditorium in Mamangalam, Ernakulam.

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Polling concludes as last voter exits at Government Vocational HSS, Ayyanthole booth in Thrissur, Kerala

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Puducherry registers 89.08 per cent voter turnout, Assam at 85.04 per cent and Kerala at 77.38 per cent

Assembly Elections 2026 Live Update | Voting concludes peacefully with EVMs sealed at polling stations in Jorhat in Assam

Election staff were welcomed with traditional gamosas in appreciation of their efforts.