New Delhi: Elections for the 243-seat Bihar Assembly will be held in two phases on November 6 and November 11, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday. The counting will be done on November 14.

Byelections to the Nuapada Assembly Seat in Odisha will also be held on November 11. ADVERTISEMENT

The number required for the majority in the Bihar Assembly is 122. While the NDA has 125 seats at the moment, the INDI Alliance has 114 MLAs under its fold. There are four Independents.

Bihar has an electorate of 7.42 crore. This year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken measures to limit the number of voters in each polling station at 1,200. For this, there will be 90,712 polling stations, with the average number of voters in each being 818, Kumar

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