Counting of votes will be held today in three Lok Sabha and 32 assembly constituencies spread across nine states where by-elections were held on September 13, with stakes high for the BJP.

The three Lok Sabha seats are in Vadodara (Gujarat), vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) and Medak (Telangana) while 11 assembly constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh, nine in Gujarat, four in Rajasthan, two in West Bengal, five in Northeastern states and one in Andhra Pradesh.

24 of these assembly seats were held by the BJP and one each by its allies Apna Dal and Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

After the BJP's near-total sweep of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in Lok Sabha polls just four months ago, the focus will be on whether the party can retain its 10 seats. One seat was earlier with its ally Apna Dal.

Last month, the BJP had received a jolt in assembly by-elections suffering a 4-6 defeat at the hands of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Janata Dal (United)-Congress alliance in Bihar and yielding two strongholds to the Congress in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.


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