With the counting of votes underway in Arunachal Pradesh for the Assembly elections, as of 10:00 pm, the BJP is leading in 34 seats, the Nationalist People’s Party (NPP) is leading in three seats, the Indian National Congress (INC) also leads in three seats and the JD(U) is leading in 11 seats.
The 60-member state Assembly has been a bastion of the Congress for years. Although the fight in most constituencies is between the BJP and Congress, there is a presence of regional parties like the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), Nationalist People’s Party, JD(U) and JD(S).
Currently, the BJP is ruling the state. While the Congress had won the Assembly elections in 2014, 33 of its 44 MLAs led by Chief Minister Pema Khandu first joined the PPA and then merged into the BJP in 2016 to form the government.
The elections for the Assembly seats and two Parliamentary constituencies were simultaneously held on 11 April, during the first phase of the 2019 general elections.