Assembly Elections LIVE: Polling underway in MP and Mizoram

Follow the latest updates on the 2018 Assembly Elections - Deccan Herald has everything you need to know from the five states going to the polls with our reporters on the ground.

80 per cent polling in Mizoram; likely to go up

Last voter at Kahnmun village polling station in South Mizoram where Bru refugee voters cast their votes. Voting at Kahnmun polling stationcontinued till 8 pm.80 per cent polling in Mizoram.

73 per cent polling in Mizoram til 4 pm. It was 83.41 in 2013 Assembly elections.

A first time voter in Aizawl

There are 32, 545 first time voters in Mizoram

Mizoram polls recorded 50 per cent voting till 1.30 pm.

Mizoram polls recorded 50 per cent voting till 1.30 pm.

CM Lal Thanhawla, after casting his vote said the Congress would form the new govt with an absolute majority.

I have lived my life the way you have. Neither you nor I was born with a silver spoon. Your parents have never ruled nor have mine: PM Narendra Modi in a rally at Nagaur, Rajasthan. (ANI Photo)

21% turnout in MP till 11 am

Jyotiraditya Scindia confident on forming government

Former CM Zoramthanga, after casting his vote, exuded confidence that MNF would get a majority to form the government.

A Bru refugee voter at Kahnmun village in Mamit district in South Mizoram. Bru refugees travelled 60 to 70kms from their relief camps in neighbouring state Tripura to cast their votes. (Photo credit: Election Commission, Mizoram)

15 per cent turn out recorded in Mizoram till 9 am, said EC.

Former Mizoram chief minister and MNF chief Zoramthanga casting his vote. (Image courtesy: MNF)