The counting of votes in the 2026 Assam Assembly elections will begin at 8 am on Monday.
Polling was held on April 9.
A party of an alliance needs 64 seats in the 126-member Assembly for a majority.
Several exit polls have predicted that the BJP would win the elections.
Follow Scroll’s coverage of the 2026 Assam Assembly elections here.
In 2021, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance retained power with 75 seats. While Sarbananda Sonowal was the chief minister during the National Democratic Alliance’s first term between 2016 and 2021, Himanta Biswa Sarma had taken over the position after the election.
The voter turnout in Assam was 85.9%, the highest ever in the state. In the 2021 polls, the state had recorded a turnout of 82%.
The Election Commission did not conduct a special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Assam, unlike in 12 other states and Union Territories. Instead, in November, it directed the state’s chief electoral officer to conduct a “special revision” of the electoral rolls, which was similar to the usual updates to the electoral roll.
Door-to-door verification took place between November 22 and December 20. This process did not involve document verification, unlike the special intensive revision.
In the draft voter list published on December 27, the names of more than 10 lakh voters had been...
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