West Bengal: In the ongoing by-elections to the four Assembly constituencies in West Bengal on Saturday, 45.37 percent of eligible voters cast ballots until 1 p.m. According to the election commission, voter turnout in the Dinhata assembly seat was 47.83 percent, while in the Gosaba seat it was 52.19 percent.

The voter turnout in the Khardaha seat was 39.30 percent , while the turnout in the Santipur seat was 48.02 percent. The polls opened around 7 a.m. and will remain open until 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. After BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar and Nishith Pramanik resigned from the assembly, the seats of Santipur and Dinhata became vacant. Elections are being held on the remaining two seats because All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs Kajal Sinha (Khardah) and Jayanta Naskar (Gosaba) died as a result of COVID-19.

The BJP and the TMC are fighting tooth and nail to keep the seats they have and gain the other two. Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, a TMC leader who resigned from the Bhabanipur constituency to help Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee win an Assembly seat, is now running from Khardah. In earlier this year's elections, the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC won a landslide victory, winning 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal assembly.

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