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By-Election Schedule and Timeline in India

Monday, July 6, 2026
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By-Election Schedule and Timeline in India

The Election Commission of India finally dropped the schedule for those by-elections. It’s about four seats across Bihar, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh. They’re setting the dates now. Polling will happen on July 30th for all of them if they need to vote at all. And the whole messy process is supposed to wrap up by August 4, 2026.

We’re talking about specific spots. The focus lands on Madhya Pradesh first. That’s the 22-Datia Assembly seat. Why? Because the sitting MLA got disqualified. A vacancy there.

Then you have Bihar. Two seats are being dealt with there. Bankipur and 182-Bakhtiyarpur. The Commission has issued notices for these ones too. It feels like a lot of moving parts just trying to sort out who represents where right now.

And don't forget Gujarat. There’s the Manjalpur seat, which opened up because the sitting MLA passed away. Yogeshbhai Narandas Patel died on June 2nd, and now there’s this by-election to fill that gap in the Legislative Assembly.

The timeline itself is pretty rigid once they set it down. They’ve got some deadlines for filing nominations. July 13th seems to be the cutoff date for everyone wanting to enter. Then scrutiny of those papers follows on July 14th. That leaves a window until July 16th for folks who might want to pull out their names entirely.

This pattern repeats across the board. For Datia, Manjalpur, and Bakhtiyarpur, it’s the same procedure. Nomination closes thirteen, scrutiny on the fourteenth, withdrawal deadline is the sixteenth. Polling itself, if needed, hits July 30th. That date seems to be fixed for everyone involved in these four seats.

It's all tied up in this common schedule now. The Commission adopted one timeline for everything. It’s a single process trying to handle different reasons disqualification versus death all under the same umbrella of by-election necessity.

So, you have the dates set: July 13th nomination end. July 14th scrutiny. July 16th withdrawal cutoff. And then the big day, July 30th for voting. Everything should be settled before August 4th, 2026. It’s a lot of administrative work crammed into that window. Trying to manage these vacancies feels like just another layer on top of the whole political mess.</p

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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