Mizoram’s Dampa bypoll results: Counting of votes begins with postal ballots

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Polling for the Dampa Assembly spot   was held peacefully connected  Tuesday with 83.07% of the 20,888 eligible voters exercising their franchise successful  the bypoll. Image for practice   only. File

Polling for the Dampa Assembly spot was held peacefully connected Tuesday with 83.07% of the 20,888 eligible voters exercising their franchise successful the bypoll. Image for practice only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu

The counting of votes polled successful the by-election to the Dampa Assembly spot successful Mizoram began astatine 8 a.m. connected Friday (November 14, 2025), amid choky information arrangements. There volition beryllium 5 rounds of counting.

Postal ballots were being counted first, and past the votes formed successful EVMs volition beryllium taken up, District Election Officer Lalnunfela Chawngthu said.

"There is lone 1 counting hallway and 9 counting tables, including 1 for postal ballots, and each counting array volition beryllium monitored by a supervisor and 2 assistants," helium said.

The bypoll was necessitated pursuing the decease of incumbent MNF legislator Lalrintluanga Sailo successful July.

Polling for the Dampa Assembly spot was held peacefully connected Tuesday with 83.07% of the 20,888 eligible voters exercising their franchise successful the bypoll.

Five candidates of the ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM), the main absorption Mizo National Front (MNF), Congress, BJP and the People's Conference (PC) enactment are successful the fray.

With PTI inputs

Published - November 14, 2025 09:11 americium IST

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