<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, by-elections to Mainpuri Lok Sabha and two State Assembly constituencies Rampur and Khatauli concluded peacefully on Monday. Till 5 PM, voter turnout of 51.89 per cent was recorded in the Mainpuri Parliamentary constituency. In Assembly by-polls, voter turnout of 54.50 per cent was recorded in Khatauli and 31.22 per cent in Rampur constituencies till 5 PM.<br />''<br />''BJP and Samajwadi Party leaders alleged each other of disrupting the polls. Earlier in the day, Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi cast his vote in Rampur. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav along with his wife Dimple Yadav cast their vote in Saifai.<br />''<br />''Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency fell vacant following the demise of senior Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav. Dimple Yadav contested on Samajwadi Party's ticket from here while BJP had fielded Raghuraj Singh Shakya.<br />''<br />''Rampur's seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Azam Khan after being sentenced in a hate speech case. A total of ten candidates including Akash Saxena of BJP and Aseem Raja of Samajwadi Party contested this seat.<br />''<br />''Khatauli Assembly seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of BJP legislator Vikram Singh Saini after his conviction and sentence of two-year imprisonment in a 2013 riot case. BJP had fielded Rajkumari Saini, while Madan Bhaiya was RLD-SP's candidate. Congress and Bahujan Samaj parties did not contest the by-polls. The counting of votes will take place on the 8th of December.<br />''<br />''In Odisha, the Padampur Assembly segment has witnessed a record turnout of voters today. The by-poll recorded more than 80 per cent voting by 6 pm today. The segment has more than 2.5 lakh voters, more than 80 per cent of whom have cast their votes to select their representative out of the 10 candidates in the fray. The seat has witnessed high-voltage electioneering with party heavyweights of BJD, BJP, and Congress throwing their weight behind their party candidates.<br />''<br />''In Rajasthan, polling concluded peacefully today for the by-election for the Sardarshahar assembly seat in Churu district. According to preliminary information, 69.91 per cent of polling has been done till 5 pm. Voting was slow in the morning but after 11 am voters started arriving at the polling stations in large numbers. This seat fell vacant due to the demise of Congress MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma. The fate of 10 candidates including BJP, Congress, and RLP has been sealed in EVM. The counting of votes will take place on the 8th of December.<br />''In Chhattisgarh, about 72 per cent voter turnout has been recorded for the Bhanupratappur Assembly by-election today.  256 polling booths had been set up for the polling. This Assembly seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribes.<br />''The electoral fates of a total of seven candidates were sealed in the electronic voting machines. Polling was by and large peaceful.<br />''<br />''In Bihar, polling also concluded for by-election to Kurhani assembly seat.<br />''<br />''The counting of votes will take place on 8th of December. The results will also be declared on the same day.</span>