Polling concluded on Friday in both Rajasthan and Telangana in the last of state elections before the December 11 results.
Rajasthan polls
Rajasthan recorded a turnout of 74 per cent in polling Friday, sealing the fate of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje whose Bharatiya Janata Party is hoping to return to power after a tough challenge from the Congress.
In about 130 constituencies, the contest appears to be mainly between the BJP and the Congress.
In the current House, the BJP has 160 seats and the Congress 25
Telangana polls
Meanwhile in Telangana an estimated 67 per cent of over 2.80 crore voters cast their ballots in Telangana on Friday in an election that will test the popularity of the ruling TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao and the wisdom of the great gamble he made in going for early elections.
Legislative Assembly elections are being held in the 119 assembly constituencies for the first time in Telangana after its formation as the 2014 Assembly polls were held in undivided Andhra Pradesh.
The Congress has stitched together Praja Kutami (Peoples Front) along with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) to take on the ruling TRS, led by caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR).
The TRS, seeking a second term in office, is going alone, as also the BJP
The results will be out on December 11, along with those from the other four states which saw Assembly elections in the past few weeks.
